# US Federal Contract Awards API (USAspending) (`digital_influx/us-federal-contracts`) Actor

New US federal contracts from USAspending.gov, the day they are signed: winning company with address and UEI, amount, agency, NAICS, PSC, description and place of performance. Filter by state, NAICS, agency, amount and keywords.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/digital_influx/us-federal-contracts.md
- **Developed by:** [Bruno Petrelli](https://apify.com/digital_influx) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 contract saveds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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:

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

New commercial construction contracts in Virginia this month:

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

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

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `postedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Contracts signed in the last N days. Agencies report within days to weeks, so the last days fill in over time.

## `states` (type: `array`):

2-letter codes of where the work is done, e.g. TX, VA. Empty = everywhere.

## `naicsCodes` (type: `array`):

Industry codes of 2 to 6 digits, e.g. 236220 (commercial building construction) or 5415 (computer systems design).

## `pscCodes` (type: `array`):

Product and service codes, e.g. D (IT services) or Y1AZ.

## `agencies` (type: `array`):

Top-tier agency names as USAspending writes them, e.g. Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Words to search in the contract description and other text, e.g. cybersecurity, roofing.

## `minAmount` (type: `integer`):

Only contracts of at least this amount in US dollars.

## `maxAmount` (type: `integer`):

Only contracts of at most this amount in US dollars.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Contracts saved in this run, newest signed first (up to 10,000). You also never pay more than the spending limit you set for the run.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Save only contracts that earlier runs of this same search did not save. Schedule it daily. The memory lives in a key-value store named "us-federal-contracts-state" in your account.

## `memoryName` (type: `string`):

By default each search has its own memory. Give a name to share one memory between tasks, or a new name to start over.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "postedWithinDays": 7,
  "states": [
    "TX"
  ],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "onlyNew": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "postedWithinDays": 7,
    "states": [
        "TX"
    ],
    "maxResults": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("digital_influx/us-federal-contracts").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "postedWithinDays": 7,
    "states": ["TX"],
    "maxResults": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("digital_influx/us-federal-contracts").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "postedWithinDays": 7,
  "states": [
    "TX"
  ],
  "maxResults": 50
}' |
apify call digital_influx/us-federal-contracts --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,digital_influx/us-federal-contracts"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/EoFCl2s8YYRu0ErVR/builds/c6Ntu3YRsLs9XfRhg/openapi.json