USAspending Federal Contract Awards - Who Won What

Every federal contract award recorded since fiscal 2008, straight from USAspending.gov. 71.9 million contracts - who won, for how much, from which agency, in which industry, and where the work is performed.

Low cost

From $0.00005 per record, down to $0.00003 at Gold. Pay only for the records you actually receive - the whole award corpus stays queryable, you are never billed for the scan behind it.

What you get

One row per federal contract award:

• Who won - the recipient name and its USAspending recipient ID
• How much - the total obligated award amount
• From whom - the awarding agency and sub-agency
• What kind - the contract award type (definitive contract, delivery order, purchase order, BPA call)
• What industry - the NAICS code and its description
• When - the period of performance start and end
• Where - the place of performance state, and the recipient's city / state

Every filter is applied by the source, so a query returns only the awards that match it.

Filter it

• Recipient - recipient="Lockheed" finds every award to that vendor.
• Agency - agency="Veterans Affairs", agency="Homeland Security".
• Industry - naics="541512" for a 6-digit code, "23" for a sector.
• Place - state="TX" for where the work is performed.
• Period - dateFrom="2024-01-01", or recentDays=365 for the last year.
• Size - minAmount=1000000000 for billion-dollar awards.

Example inputs

A vendor's federal book of business - recipient is a substring match.

{ "recipient": "LOCKHEED", "maxResults": 25 }

One agency's spend in one state - combine agency and place.

{ "agency": "Veterans Affairs", "state": "TX", "maxResults": 50 }

The big recent contracts - a billion and up, started in the last year.

{ "minAmount": 1000000000, "recentDays": 365, "maxResults": 50 }

Who gets the money - mode=aggregate totals award dollars per agency.

{ "mode": "aggregate", "groupBy": "awardingAgency" }

Or roll it up

Set mode=aggregate and get total award dollars by awarding agency, funding agency, NAICS industry or recipient. The agency and industry lists come back in full; the recipient list is the largest spenders.

Then follow the money

• Competitive intelligence - who is winning a given agency's or industry's contracts, and for how much.
• Vendor risk / KYB - a recipient's federal award history, by agency and year.
• Market sizing - total federal contract dollars by NAICS sector or state.
• Recompete watch - awards whose period of performance ends soon.

Example output

One award - a Lockheed contract over $1B:

{
 "platform": "usaspending-awards",
 "source": "usaspending-federal-contracts",
 "mode": "rows",
 "groupKey": "",
 "groupCount": "",
 "groupBy": "",
 "groupAmount": "",
 "awardId": "DEAC0494AL85000",
 "generatedId": "CONT_AWD_DEAC0494AL85000_8900_-NONE-_-NONE-",
 "recipientName": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP",
 "recipientId": "6e7a895c-aa57-8600-2a8a-4e237f6213f6-C",
 "amount": "48063737196.35",
 "awardingAgency": "Department of Energy",
 "awardingSubAgency": "Department of Energy",
 "contractAwardType": "DEFINITIVE CONTRACT",
 "description": "",
 "startDate": "1993-10-15",
 "endDate": "2017-04-30",
 "popState": "NM",
 "recipientCity": "LITTLETON",
 "recipientState": "CO",
 "naicsCode": "561210",
 "naicsDescription": "FACILITIES SUPPORT SERVICES",
 "sourceUpdatedAt": "2026-10-08"
}

mode=aggregate, groupBy=awardingAgency - total obligated dollars:

Department of Defense                    $8,148,198,605,729
Department of Energy                       $857,268,607,900
Department of Veterans Affairs             $678,704,165,907
Department of Health and Human Services    $484,645,238,486
Department of Homeland Security            $414,880,887,133

Notes on the data, from the source

• These are award totals, not transactions. One row per contract award, with the total obligated amount - not the individual modifications.
• The agency filter needs a real agency name. A partial name that does not match silently returns nothing, so this actor matches your text against the source's own 111-name agency list and refuses an ambiguous or unknown value (telling you the candidates) rather than returning an empty set.
• amount arrives as a string (the source serialises the number that way); the README's aggregate table shows the dollars summed by the source.
• The recipient mailing ZIP is not included - it is empty on the award feed. The place of performance state and the recipient city / state are populated.
• Coverage starts at fiscal 2008 (the source's own searchable floor); earlier awards exist only in the bulk download.