US Federal Contracts & Spending Scraper (USAspending)

The federal contracts scraper that pulls live USAspending data — award amounts, recipients, agencies, and descriptions — straight from the official USAspending.gov API, sorted biggest awards first.

Built for govcon competitive intelligence and BD/capture teams who need fast, structured government contract data without paying for an enterprise seat. Also used by journalists and researchers tracking where federal dollars go. Search by keyword, recipient (e.g. "Lockheed Martin"), award type, and date range.

Data comes from the official USAspending.gov API — no API key required. Coverage runs back to 2007-10-01, and results are sorted by award amount descending so the biggest awards land at the top of your dataset.

What you get

Field	Description
awardId	Unique award identifier (PIID / FAIN / URI)
recipient	Name of the company or entity that received the award
amount	Award amount in USD (number)
agency	Awarding federal agency
awardType	Human-readable award label (e.g. "Definitive Contract")
startDate	Period of performance start date
endDate	Period of performance end / current end date
description	Award description text
url	Link to the award detail page on USAspending.gov

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
keywords	array	[]	Free-text keywords to match against award data
recipientName	string	(optional)	Filter by recipient, e.g. "Lockheed Martin"
awardTypeCodes	array	["A","B","C","D"]	Award types. Contracts A-D; IDVs IDV_A..IDV_E; grants 02-11
startDate	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	"2025-01-01"	Earliest award action date
endDate	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	today	Latest award action date
maxItems	integer	500	Maximum number of awards to return

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["cybersecurity"],
  "recipientName": "Lockheed Martin",
  "awardTypeCodes": ["A", "B", "C", "D"],
  "startDate": "2024-01-01",
  "endDate": "2025-06-01",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Example run output

{
  "awardId": "FA875024C0123",
  "recipient": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION",
  "amount": 482350000,
  "agency": "Department of Defense",
  "awardType": "Definitive Contract",
  "startDate": "2024-03-15",
  "endDate": "2029-03-14",
  "description": "F-35 SUSTAINMENT AND CYBERSECURITY MODERNIZATION SERVICES",
  "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA875024C0123"
}

Use cases

• Govcon competitive intelligence — track competitors' new awards, agency wins, and contract values to size markets and time recompetes.
• BD / capture teams — find who is winning the contracts you chase, by agency and keyword, before the bid cycle.
• Journalists & watchdogs — follow the money on federal spending and surface the biggest awards by recipient or program.
• Researchers & analysts — build government contract data sets for funding, procurement, or policy analysis.

vs GovWin IQ and other govcon-intel platforms

Seat-licensed govcon-intelligence platforms like GovWin IQ run $12,000–$42,000/yr per seat. This scraper pulls the same underlying official award data from USAspending.gov on a pay-per-result basis with no seat license.

Honest caveat: this returns raw federal award data, not the analyst layer (forecasts, teaming, opportunity scoring) that platforms like GovWin add on top. If you want the structured government contract data feed, this is the cheap, direct path; if you need the human-curated intel layer, this complements rather than replaces it.

Pricing

Pay per result — you are billed only for the federal contract records returned to your dataset.

Keywords

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