SAM.gov Contract Opportunities - Federal Contracts, Solicitations & Awards

👋 The US federal government posts every contract opportunity it intends to award over $25,000 to SAM.gov - solicitations, combined synopsis/solicitations, presolicitations, sources sought, sole-source justifications, awards, and special notices. This actor gives you that whole register as clean, structured records: ~85,000 live notices across every federal agency, searchable by keyword, agency, NAICS code, set-aside, place of performance and date.

Low cost

From $0.0001 per notice (per row delivered - a notice, or one summary row in aggregate mode). One hundredth of a cent.

Federal contract data has a reputation for being expensive and fussy - most ways in require a registered API key, and those keys expire on you. There is no key here: nothing to register, nothing to renew, nothing to wait for. We took the harder road so you don't have to - the register is pulled, reconciled and served fresh every day.

What you can ask it

• Find work you can actually bid on - keyword + deadlineFrom finds notices still open for responses, with the deadline and the contracting office's own contact.
• Chase a specific agency - filter to DEPT OF DEFENSE, VETERANS AFFAIRS, HOMELAND SECURITY, or narrow to a contracting office like DLA LAND AND MARITIME or CDC.
• Find your NAICS - 54 for professional and technical services, 23 for construction, 33 for manufacturing, or an exact code like 541511.
• Small-business set-asides - SBA, SDVOSBC (service-disabled veteran-owned), WOSB / EDWOSB, 8A, HZC (HUBZone), and partial set-asides.
• Who won what - awardedOnly returns the notices that name a contractor, with the award number, date and dollar value as the agency filed them. Most carry all three; a few award notices arrive incomplete on the government's side.
• What changed since yesterday - changes reports new notices, shifted deadlines, fresh awards and cancellations against the previous daily snapshot.
• The shape of the market - aggregate counts notices by agency, sub-tier, place of performance (state) or contracting state, notice type, set-aside program, NAICS sector or month. Ask for the market summary with no filters at all and it answers instantly.

Records

Every notice record carries these fields:

Identity	noticeId, title, solicitationNumber, type, baseType, link
Buyer	department, subTier, office, organizationType, contractingCity / State / Zip
Classification	naicsCode, classificationCode (PSC), setAsideCode, setAside
Place of performance	popCity, popState, popZip
Timing	postedDate, responseDeadline, archiveDate
Contact	primaryContactName / Email / Phone
Award (when placed)	awardNumber, awardDate, awardAmount, awardee
Text	description - the notice's own summary

Dates are normalized to ISO. awardAmount is a plain number. A notice record always carries these keys, in every mode that returns notices.

Modes

Mode	What it does
search (default)	Notices matching your filters
notice	One noticeId, in full
changes	What moved since the previous daily snapshot
aggregate	Counts by one dimension

Leave mode blank and the actor routes for you: a noticeId looks that notice up; any filter (or "newest first") returns matching notices; a completely bare request returns the market summary.

Notes on the data

• What's in here is what SAM publishes. A notice's own wording, agency, deadlines and award facts - as filed. We do not editorialize, score, or infer.
• "Still open" means the response window is still ahead. The register carries a deadline on most notices, but about two thirds of them are already past. openOnly tests the date, not merely its presence.
• Money arrives as text in the government's file (and, occasionally, as a sentence describing several line items). We keep only clean single values, so awardAmount never holds prose.
• A few records carry bad dates - the source occasionally files an award dated in the year 9202. Those dates are blanked rather than passed on (the notice itself is still delivered).
• Award notices are the ones with a contractor named. Everything else is an opportunity, not a signed contract.
• Descriptions are truncated at 1,000 characters to keep delivery fast. Each record's link opens the full notice on SAM.gov.

Also worth knowing

Contract opportunities are notices of intent. A Solicitation is asking for bids; an Award Notice is a contract already placed; a Special Notice or Sources Sought is market research ahead of a solicitation. type tells you which you have.

Federal contracting has its own vocabulary - NAICS for industry, PSC (classificationCode) for product or service, and a ladder of set-aside programs for small business. All of it is in the records, unfiltered.

Related actors

Looking for the demand side of a different market? The same house runs state and local government registers - Texas procurement and vendor data, Washington contracts and licenses, California licensing and permits - under the same low-cost, per-record model.