Federal Contract Award Alerts – New Awards Only

What does Federal Contract Award Alerts do?

It gives you only the U.S. federal contracts that were newly signed since your last run in the industries, agencies and places you care about, from the official USAspending.gov API run by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Each award comes with the competition details you need to act on it: how many offers the agency received, whether it was a small-business set-aside, the solicitation number, the contract vehicle it was ordered under, the winner's parent company and the potential total value.

Schedule it daily or weekly and you get a clean feed of new wins. It is useful for capture and business-development teams, small-business contractors watching their NAICS codes, subcontractors looking for primes that just won work, and market analysts tracking an agency's spending.

You get only new awards, and pay only for those. In incremental mode, awards you already received and older awards that were already public before your first run are skipped and not charged. The one exception is described under "What if a run is stopped" below.

Why use it instead of searching USAspending yourself?

• "Newly signed" means newly signed. It filters on the date the contract was signed, so modifications of old contracts aren't mistaken for new wins.
• Late-published awards are not lost. Department of Defense awards reach USAspending 30–90 days after signing. Each run re-checks the last 120 days and delivers any award that has appeared since your previous run, without repeating awards this feed already received.
• Competition intelligence is included. One record has the offer count, the extent competed, the set-aside type, the solicitation ID (for matching to SAM.gov opportunities), the parent IDV and the parent company.
• No API key, scraping or login. It uses an official, public government API only.

How to use it

1. Enter at least one filter: NAICS codes (for example 541512, or 5415 for the whole group), PSC codes, keywords, awarding agencies, set-aside types, place-of-performance states or a minimum award amount.
2. Run it once to see the last 7 days of matching awards.
3. For monitoring, tick "Only new awards since my last run" and create a schedule, for example daily at 08:00. Every run then returns only awards that are new to you. Connect the dataset to email, Slack, Google Sheets or a webhook through Apify integrations.

Each distinct filter set is its own feed, so you can monitor several markets side by side. Reordering or re-casing the same codes keeps the same feed. To run two independent feeds with identical filters (for example one per team), give each a Feed name.

Input example

{
  "naicsCodes": ["541512", "541519"],
  "setAsideTypes": ["SBA", "SDVOSBC"],
  "placeOfPerformanceStates": ["VA", "MD"],
  "minAwardAmount": 25000,
  "incremental": true
}

Set-aside codes verified against the live API: SBA total small business, 8A and 8AN 8(a), SDVOSBC service-disabled veteran-owned, WOSB women-owned small business.

Output example

{
  "awardId": "80TECH27FA010",
  "dateSigned": "2026-10-22",
  "recipientName": "NEW TECH SOLUTIONS, INC.",
  "awardAmount": 66592.61,
  "potentialValueBaseAndAllOptions": 452587.83,
  "awardingAgency": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "awardingOffice": "NASA IT PROCUREMENT OFFICE",
  "naicsCode": "541519",
  "pscCode": "DA10",
  "setAside": "SMALL BUSINESS SET ASIDE - TOTAL",
  "extentCompeted": "FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION AFTER EXCLUSION OF SOURCES",
  "numberOfOffersReceived": 2,
  "contractPricing": "FIRM FIXED PRICE",
  "solicitationId": "80TECH27QA002",
  "parentIdvPiid": "NNG15SC82B",
  "recipientUei": "XK11LLUL61A7",
  "parentRecipientName": "NEW TECH SOLUTIONS, INC.",
  "periodOfPerformanceStart": "2026-10-25",
  "periodOfPerformanceEnd": "2027-10-24",
  "placeOfPerformanceState": "CA",
  "usaspendingUrl": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80TECH27FA010_8000_NNG15SC82B_8000"
}

Each run also writes a summary to the OUTPUT record of the key-value store. It shows how many awards were delivered, skipped as already delivered, or baselined, and why the run stopped.

How much does it cost?

Pricing is pay-per-event and is active now. Apify platform usage is included at no extra cost:

• $0.004 per award delivered ($4 per 1,000);
• $0.002 per run start (one start event per run at the default 128 MB memory).

There is no separate per-dataset-item charge, and each award is charged at most once per run. In incremental mode, awards already delivered to a feed, and older awards that were already public before its first run, are skipped and not charged. The exception is an abruptly killed run (see the FAQ). Without incremental mode, every run returns, and charges for, every matching award in its window, including awards earlier runs already returned. Maximum awards per run and your run's maximum charge both cap what one run can deliver.

For scale: in October 2026, NAICS 541512 alone averaged about 2 new awards a day, and the whole 5415 group about 11 a day. On a daily schedule that comes to about $0.30 and $1.40 a month.

FAQ

How fresh is the data?

Civilian agencies usually appear on USAspending within 1–3 days of signing. Department of Defense awards are published with a 30–90 day delay, set by the government. Incremental mode delivers them as soon as they appear.

Why did my first incremental run return fewer awards than I expected?

The first run delivers awards signed within Look back (days), 7 by default. Older awards that were already public are recorded as a free baseline. For a historical pull, set Signed on or after instead.

Are contract vehicles (GWACs, IDIQs, schedules) included?

New vehicles themselves are not included. The funded work arrives as orders under them, and those orders are included: definitive contracts, purchase orders, delivery and task orders, and BPA calls. Each order carries its parent vehicle in parentIdvPiid.

What if a run is stopped, times out or overlaps another run?

Progress is saved every 20 awards, and again when the platform asks the run to stop. The next run continues where it stopped and skips every award this feed already received. If a run is killed abruptly, fewer than 20 of its most recent awards may be delivered, and charged, once more. If two runs of the same feed overlap, the second one exits without delivering anything.

Are there limits?

Each run checks up to 10,000 matching awards. Very broad filters (for example an entire 2-digit NAICS sector) get a warning to narrow them.

Is this data allowed to be used?

Yes. USAspending data is published by the U.S. government under the DATA Act for public use. This Actor is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, USAspending.gov or the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Executive-compensation data is never collected.

Something is wrong — what do I do?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with the run ID. Input mistakes, such as an unknown agency name, stop the run before any award is delivered or charged and say how to fix them.