US Federal Contract Awards API (USAspending)

Every new US federal contract the day it is signed, from USAspending.gov, the official source of federal spending data:

• the winning company with its address, UEI and a link to its USAspending profile;
• the amount, signing date, start and end dates;
• the awarding agency and sub agency;
• NAICS and PSC codes with their descriptions, and the contract description;
• where the work is done.

No account, no API key, no proxies: the data comes from the USAspending API of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Who uses it

• Subcontractors and suppliers: companies that just won a contract in your industry and state need staff, materials and partners now.
• B2B sales, lending and factoring: government contractors with a fresh award, by size and agency.
• Competitive intelligence: who wins what, from which agency, for how much.

What you get

One record per contract:

Field	Example
awardId, contractType	86615426F00011, DELIVERY ORDER
recipientName, recipientUei	IMPRES TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC, MSSQQ551LG41
recipientStreet, recipientCity, recipientState, recipientZip, recipientCounty, recipientCountry	810 HESTERS CROSSING RD, APT 100, ROUND ROCK, TX, 78681
amount, outlays	5830000
signedDate, startDate, endDate, lastModified	2026-09-29, 2026-09-30, 2027-12-31
awardingAgency, awardingSubAgency, fundingAgency	Department of Housing and Urban Development
naicsCode, naicsDescription, pscCode, pscDescription	541519, OTHER COMPUTER RELATED SERVICES, DA01
description	MICROSTRATEGY SOFTWARE LICENSES AND SOFTWARE LICENSE SUPPORT SERVICES
performanceCity, performanceState, performanceZip, performanceCounty, congressionalDistrict	Where the work is done
awardUrl, recipientUrl, retrievedAt	The award and the company on USAspending.gov
change	With Only new: new

The OUTPUT record has the window, the totals and the count by agency and by state.

Input

New contracts performed in Texas this week:

{
  "postedWithinDays": 7,
  "states": ["TX"],
  "maxResults": 50
}

New commercial construction contracts in Virginia this month:

{
  "postedWithinDays": 30,
  "states": ["VA"],
  "naicsCodes": ["236220"]
}

New IT contracts of the Department of Veterans Affairs this month:

{
  "postedWithinDays": 30,
  "agencies": ["Department of Veterans Affairs"],
  "pscCodes": ["D"]
}

Field	What it does
postedWithinDays	Contracts signed in the last N days (7 by default, up to 365).
states	Where the work is done (2-letter codes).
naicsCodes, pscCodes	Industry and product/service codes; a shorter code covers the longer ones (PSC D = IT services).
agencies	Awarding agencies as USAspending names them.
keywords	Words to search in the contract text.
minAmount, maxAmount	Contract amount in USD.
maxResults	Contracts saved, newest signed first (1,000 by default, up to 10,000).
onlyNew + memoryName	For daily runs: only the contracts earlier runs of the same search did not save. The memory lives in a key-value store named us-federal-contracts-state.

How much it costs

Pay per event: only for the contracts saved. Measured on 2026-10-02: 2,662 new contracts were performed in Texas in September 2026; a week of Texas reads in one request of 100 contracts, about 2 seconds.

Use it from AI agents (MCP)

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any other MCP client can run this Actor as a tool: add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=digital_influx/us-federal-contracts as a remote MCP server and sign in with your Apify account. It is also one of the tools of US & UK Public Records MCP (digital_influx/public-records-mcp), by the same author, made for agents.

Good to know

• Contracts only (types A to D: BPA calls, purchase orders, delivery orders and definitive contracts), and only new awards: a decades-old contract with a recent modification is not new.
• Reporting delays: agencies report within days to weeks, so the last days of a window fill in over time. The Department of Defense publishes its contracts with a 90-day delay (21 new DoD contracts in the 30 days before 2026-10-02, against 290,457 since June).
• Agency names must be written as USAspending writes them ("Department of Veterans Affairs"); an unknown name matches nothing, and the OUTPUT says so.
• Requests: one a second. The API answers 100 contracts a request, so a run stops after 10,000.

Source and attribution

USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury. Federal spending data is public domain. USAspending.gov does not endorse this Actor.