SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Scraper: Federal RFPs & Bids

Get US federal contract opportunities from SAM.gov as clean JSON, CSV or Excel: RFPs, RFQs, solicitations, presolicitations, sources sought, special notices and award notices. No SAM.gov account or API key needed.

• 📥 Data comes from GSA's official public Contract Opportunities extract, the daily file SAM.gov publishes on its Data Services page, or from the official Get Opportunities API with your own free key. The Actor never scrapes sam.gov web pages, which SAM.gov's Terms of Use prohibit.
• 🎯 Filter by keyword, NAICS, PSC, set-aside, notice type, state, agency, open deadline and award amount.
• 🔔 Only-new mode + a daily schedule = a federal bid alert that never repeats a notice.
• 💲 $2.40 per 1,000 notices, no start fee, no monthly rental. Apify compute is included.

What does this SAM.gov scraper do?

It reads every active notice on SAM.gov (about 70,000 at any time), applies your filters, and saves one normalized row per notice with title, solicitation number, notice type, agency path, NAICS and PSC codes, set-aside, response deadline, place of performance, award details, contracting-officer contacts, full description and a link to the notice page.

In a test run on the Apify platform on 2026-10-27, the default input (keywords software or cybersecurity, posted in the last 7 days) returned 50 notices in under 4 seconds: 13 combined synopsis/solicitations, 11 sources sought, 11 special notices, 6 solicitations, 4 presolicitations, 3 justifications and 2 award notices.

Why use it?

• ✅ No API key and no 10-requests-a-day quota. Personal SAM.gov API keys without an entity role are limited to 10 requests per day; the default mode reads GSA's public daily file instead.
• 📝 Full description text included. In the API, each description is a separate link that costs another request.
• ⚡ Fast and cheap alerts. The file is sorted newest first, so a "posted in the last N days" run stops reading early. The test run above read 6,189 of about 70,000 rows.
• 🔔 Daily alerts with memory: only notices not seen in previous runs, a separate memory per saved search, and optionally one alert per solicitation instead of one per amendment.
• 🎯 Real procurement filters: NAICS and PSC prefix match (5415, D3), set-aside codes (SBA, 8A, SDVOSBC, WOSB, HZC…), notice type, place-of-performance state, agency or office, open response deadline, minimum award amount.
• 🔑 Optional API mode with your own key for archived notices, attachment links and exact date windows, with a request budget that protects your daily quota.
• 🧾 One normalized schema for both sources, ready for Google Sheets, Slack, CRMs, Zapier, Make, n8n and AI agents (Apify MCP server).

Use cases

• GovCon bid alerts: new solicitations in your NAICS codes and set-aside every morning, to Slack, email or a Google Sheet.
• Capture and business-development teams: track agencies, offices and recompetes; catch sources-sought notices before the RFP drops.
• Small-business contractors (8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, HUBZone): see only set-aside opportunities you can bid on.
• Market research: what the government buys, from whom (award notices), where and when.
• Lead lists for GovCon consultants, proposal writers and newsletters.
• Data feeds for dashboards, CRMs or your own app.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Set filters, e.g. keywords cybersecurity, NAICS 5415, set-aside SBA, posted within 3 days.
3. Click Start. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or read results through the Apify API.
4. For alerts: turn on Only notices not seen in previous runs, give the alert a name (state key), and create a daily Schedule. GSA refreshes the file once a day; in our checks it was last modified around 03:30 UTC.

Input example

{
  "keywords": ["cybersecurity", "zero trust"],
  "naicsCodes": ["5415"],
  "setAsideCodes": ["SBA", "SDVOSBC"],
  "noticeTypes": ["solicitation", "combined", "sources_sought"],
  "postedWithinDays": 3,
  "onlyOpen": true,
  "onlyNewNotices": true,
  "stateKey": "cyber-small-business"
}

Output example

A real record from the test run on 2026-10-27 (description shortened, secondary contact omitted):

{
  "noticeId": "55d10c5390da4bd4836d484da769c456",
  "title": "FIBO machines/software and Adapters",
  "solicitationNumber": "SPMYM127Q0001",
  "noticeType": "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation",
  "baseType": "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation",
  "active": true,
  "postedDate": "2026-10-23T10:45:42",
  "responseDeadline": "2026-10-26T17:00:00-04:00",
  "archiveDate": "2026-11-10",
  "department": "DEPT OF DEFENSE",
  "subTier": "DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY",
  "office": "DLA MARITIME - NORFOLK",
  "agencyPath": "DEPT OF DEFENSE > DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY > DLA MARITIME - NORFOLK",
  "agencyCode": "SPMYM1",
  "naicsCode": "334519",
  "pscCode": "6695",
  "setAsideCode": "SBA",
  "setAside": "Small Business Set Aside - Total",
  "placeOfPerformance": {"street": null, "city": "Portsmouth", "state": "VA", "zip": "23709", "country": "USA"},
  "award": null,
  "primaryContact": {"title": null, "fullName": "DeShaura Adams", "email": "deshaura.adams@dla.mil", "phone": null, "fax": null},
  "description": "This is a Brand Name Only Total Small Business Set Aside requirement. …",
  "descriptionTruncated": false,
  "attachments": null,
  "url": "https://sam.gov/opp/55d10c5390da4bd4836d484da769c456/view",
  "source": "sam.gov-extract",
  "dataLastModified": "Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:30:29 GMT",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-10-27T14:44:52.821968Z"
}

All fields: noticeId, title, solicitationNumber, noticeType, baseType, active, postedDate, responseDeadline, archiveDate, archiveType, department, subTier, office, agencyPath, agencyCode, organizationType, naicsCode, pscCode, setAsideCode, setAside, placeOfPerformance, officeAddress, award, primaryContact, secondaryContact, description, descriptionTruncated, descriptionUrl, attachments, additionalInfoLink, url, source, dataLastModified, retrievedAt.

RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store records the source used, rows read, whether the download stopped early, the file's last-modified time and API requests used.

Extract mode vs. API mode

	Public daily extract (default)	SAM.gov API (your key)
Key or account	None	Free personal key from sam.gov → Profile → Account Details
Coverage	All active notices	Active and archived/inactive notices, last 364 days per run
Description	Full text, truncated by GSA at about 32,000 characters	Separate link; fetching it uses 1 request per notice
Attachments	No	attachments links (resourceLinks)
Quota	None (one file download per run)	10 requests/day for personal keys without an entity role; 1,000/day with a role (1,000 notices per request)

How much does it cost?

$2.40 per 1,000 notices saved ($0.0024 per notice), with no start fee and no monthly rental. Apify platform compute is included in the price, so you pay only for results.

• Runs with no matches cost nothing, and notices removed by your filters aren't charged.
• Example: a daily alert that returns 25 new notices costs about $0.06 a day, under $2 a month.
• Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it reaches it.

The Pricing tab always shows the current price.

How it compares

	This Actor (default mode)	SAM.gov API with a personal key	Scraping sam.gov pages
Account or key	None	Free key, SAM.gov account	None
Daily quota	None	10 requests/day without an entity role	n/a
Full description	Included	1 extra request per notice	Varies
Archived notices, attachments	❌ (✅ in API mode with your key)	✅	Varies
Allowed by SAM.gov terms	✅ public data extract	✅	❌ prohibited by SAM.gov Terms of Use

Data source, terms and attribution

• Sources:
  • SAM.gov Contract Opportunities public extract, U.S. General Services Administration (sam.gov/data-services);
  • SAM.gov Get Opportunities Public API (open.gsa.gov).
• Copyright and attribution: SAM.gov states that most material is free of copyright as US government work, and asks for a citation and a link back to GSA. Every record carries source, url, dataLastModified and retrievedAt.
• Dun & Bradstreet data: award notices with an award date before 4 April 2022 may contain D&B data, which SAM.gov's terms restrict. For those records the Actor omits the awardee and says why in award.awardeeWithheld.
• Contacts: contracting-office contacts are the government points of contact published on each notice. Turn them off with Include contracting-office contacts.
• Your API key: SAM.gov's terms say not to share your personal key. Enter your own key; it is a secret input and is never logged.
• No endorsement: this Actor is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by GSA or SAM.gov. The data is not an official copy; always confirm details on the notice page before you bid.

FAQ

Do I need a SAM.gov account? No. The default mode uses GSA's public file. A key is only needed for archived notices or attachment links.

Why is a notice I saw yesterday missing? The extract holds active notices only. Notices that were archived, cancelled or deleted drop out. Use API mode to search archived ones.

How fresh is the data? GSA regenerates the extract daily. Each record's dataLastModified shows the file's timestamp.

Does it include amendments? Yes. Each amendment is its own notice on SAM.gov. To alert only once per solicitation number, turn off Count amendments as new.

Can I get only small-business set-asides? Yes. Add set-aside codes such as SBA, 8A, SDVOSBC, WOSB or HZC. Use NONE for full and open competition.

Can I use it in Zapier, Make, n8n, Google Sheets or with an AI agent? Yes. Any Apify integration, webhook, the Apify API or the Apify MCP server works.