# USAspending New Federal Contract Awards (`jpmarketdata/usaspending-new-federal-contract-awards`) Actor

Export new U.S. federal contract awards matching up to three procurement topics over a trailing base-award date window, with recipient, agency and whole-award amount.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/jpmarketdata/usaspending-new-federal-contract-awards.md
- **Developed by:** [h ichi](https://apify.com/jpmarketdata) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 federal contract award delivereds

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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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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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

## USAspending New Federal Contract Awards

Export bounded newly awarded U.S. federal contracts for up to three procurement topics. Government contractors can schedule the same searches and compare their own snapshots of new recipients and agencies. Independent tool; not affiliated with the U.S. government.

### Input

`queries` accepts one to three topic phrases, default `cybersecurity` and `medical supplies`; `lookbackDays` is 7–90, default 30; `maxItemsPerQuery` is 1–50, default 10. The official API `new_awards_only` filter selects base transactions in the date window. It does not mean the award has no later modification.

### Output

One row per distinct USAspending award key, with public award ID, recipient organization, awarding agency, current whole-award amount in USD, award type, performance start date, last modification time, matched topics, source rank, date window, source link and truncation flag. The amount is not spending within the selected period. The Actor takes eligible rows from the first 100 source-ranked results per topic, so it is a bounded sample. DoD/USACE reporting can be delayed 90 days; do not treat recent zero as proof that no award exists.

### Pricing

$0.001 per delivered distinct `award-delivered` row on FREE; no start, search or secondary event. At most 20 default rows ($0.020) or 150 maximum rows ($0.150). Failed, skipped and duplicate rows are not charged.

### Limits and provenance

Official anonymous USAspending API POST only; no website fetch, proxy or paid API. Runtime checks API-origin robots before requests. At most three source POSTs plus robots, 120 seconds and 256 MB. A required-query failure aborts before output or charge; all-zero also fails. Award links provide source attribution. Official USAspending About/Licensing permits commercial data reuse subject to its D\&B limitation. The new-awards base-date filter excludes the pre-2022 base-award notices identified by GSA; it does not prove all later organization names are free of D\&B origin. No USAspending website pages are fetched. Cite USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service; each row includes an award source link.

### Privacy

Only factual public award and organization fields are exported. Blank, redacted, contact-like or names without a recognized organization marker are skipped and never charged; all-skipped fails. A trade name could still identify a sole proprietor. UEI/DUNS, addresses, contacts, officers, compensation and raw descriptions are omitted.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

One to three phrases searched separately against federal contract awards; matching awards are deduplicated.

## `lookbackDays` (type: `integer`):

Select new contract awards whose base transaction date is in the trailing 7–90 days. This is not the later modification date or period spending.

## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Take 1–50 eligible awards from the first 100 source-ranked search results per topic; not an exhaustive search.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "cybersecurity",
    "medical supplies"
  ],
  "lookbackDays": 30,
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "queries": [
        "cybersecurity",
        "medical supplies"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("jpmarketdata/usaspending-new-federal-contract-awards").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 = { "queries": [
        "cybersecurity",
        "medical supplies",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("jpmarketdata/usaspending-new-federal-contract-awards").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 '{
  "queries": [
    "cybersecurity",
    "medical supplies"
  ]
}' |
apify call jpmarketdata/usaspending-new-federal-contract-awards --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,jpmarketdata/usaspending-new-federal-contract-awards"
        }
    }
}
```

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/wBiYhUu4wRqN4KTYg/builds/5iHcVqXS38aMXVd87/openapi.json