US Federal Contractor Award Signals — AI-ready watchlist

Monitor newly awarded U.S. federal contracts for specified companies, with official evidence URLs. Designed for analysts, AI agents and government-contract intelligence teams.

Value proposition

• Search up to 10 contractor names against the official USAspending.gov API. Filter by recent award date and minimum USD obligations.
• Return newly awarded contracts, not regular modifications (USAspending 'new_awards_only' date filter).
• Add clear rule-based AI/cyber/cloud/semiconductors topic tags and linked original sources.
• Pass excludeAwardIds to suppress previously used award IDs. The Actor stores no shared buyer watchlist or state.
• No external API keys, premium data licenses, browser proxies or JavaScript scraping.

Accuracy note: The base award transaction date is not the public-disclosure date. Government reporting can lag. Obligated amounts are not earned corporate revenue. Tags are keywords, not machine-learned predictions. This is not financial advice.

Example input

• recipientNames: ["PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES", "LOCKHEED MARTIN"]
• daysBack: 90
• minAwardUsd: 1000000
• maxResults: 30

An output item contains matchedWatchTerm, recipientName, awardId, awardDate, obligatedAmountUsd, sizeTier, topicTags, awardingAgency, description, sourceUrl, source and caveat. Buyer can export JSON/CSV and schedule runs.

Store monetization

Use the Apify pay-per-event model with the automatic synthetic apify-default-dataset-item event. Suggested test list price: USD $0.01 per item, not a claim of realized market value. Leave low-cost synthetic apify-actor-start enabled. Set limits in Apify Console to protect buyers and audit platform costs before making the listing public. Empty result sets have no per-result event.

Publish

This is a stand-alone Actor folder, separate from the Next.js application. Use Apify CLI from this folder, or configure an Apify GitHub integration with this directory and then build in Apify Console. Validate the sample input, review costs, set pay-per-event pricing, configure account payout identity, then publish to Store. Authentication, billing acceptance and listing publication require the owner's Apify connection and are not performed by GitHub. Never put an Apify token in the repo.

Verification

Run Python stdlib tests: python -m unittest discover -s tests -v.

Compliance: official public USAspending API (https://api.usaspending.gov/) and its published search contract. Independent product, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Data can have delays and corrections; verify official award details before trading or making compliance decisions.