Federal Contract Awards Scraper - USAspending Data

Federal contract award research

For GovCon researchers and business-development teams, turn published federal contract awards into a searchable recipient and agency table.

Coverage: USAspending procurement contracts and IDVs, rather than grants, loans or open bid opportunities.

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Try this Actor

1. Keep the current/previous fiscal-year window or choose a bounded historical window. Start with a low maximum award count and the filters described below.
2. Open the run's dataset to compare recipients, amounts and source links; read SUMMARY for incomplete collection or spending stops.

Read the results correctly: An award amount is not the same as cash paid out. Source reporting lag and missing fields remain part of the data.

Result preview

The dataset view highlights these columns:

• Award ID · awardId
• Award recipient · recipientName
• Obligated amount · awardAmount
• Awarding agency · awardingAgency
• Awarding subagency · awardingSubAgency
• Award category · awardType

Use the original source links and the field definitions below when interpreting the results. CSV works well for flat columns; JSON preserves nested values.

Usage and pricing

Base result rate on the FREE tier: $2 per 1,000 results. The Pricing tab shows your plan's result rate and any Actor Start charge. Set a small result limit for the first run; the requested limit is not a guarantee of that many results.

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Full guide

Pull rich, structured US federal contract award data from USAspending.gov - no API key, no account, no scraping headaches.

What it does

This federal contract awards scraper turns the official USAspending.gov data into clean, ready-to-use records. It queries the public spending_by_award endpoint and returns full award detail - recipient, dollar amounts, outlays, awarding agency, NAICS and PSC codes, place of performance, and a direct link back to each award. Use it as a USAspending API alternative when you want federal spending data exported to CSV, Excel, or JSON without writing code or managing tokens.

Unlike thin "contracts + grants + loans" dumps, this actor is a contracts specialist: it covers procurement contracts (award types A/B/C/D) and IDVs with the complete field set GovCon teams actually use for market intelligence and lead generation. Filter by agency, recipient, NAICS code, place of performance, keyword, or award amount to answer questions like who won federal contracts in my space - and monitor new awards on a schedule.

Who it's for

• GovCon business development teams sizing pipelines and finding teaming partners
• Market and competitive intelligence analysts tracking who wins what, and where
• Subcontracting and lead-gen teams sourcing prime contractors to pitch
• Capture managers researching a target agency's buying patterns and incumbents
• Analysts and data teams who want federal spending data in a spreadsheet, not a portal

What you get / Output

Each award record includes the following fields:

Field	Description
awardId	Unique award identifier
recipientName	Name of the company or entity that won the award
awardAmount	Total obligated award amount
totalOutlays	Total outlays disbursed against the award
description	Award description / statement of work summary
awardingAgency	Top-level awarding agency
subAgency	Awarding sub-agency
awardType	Award type (contract A/B/C/D or IDV)
naics	NAICS classification, with code and desc
psc	Product/Service Code, with code and desc
startDate	Period of performance start date
endDate	Period of performance end date
popState	Place-of-performance state
recipientId	Unique recipient identifier
awardUrl	Direct link to the award on USAspending.gov

Results are returned as structured rows you can export to CSV, Excel, or JSON and push straight into your CRM, BI tool, or spreadsheet.

Input / How to query

Narrow results with any combination of these filters:

• Time period - restrict awards to a date range. Leave it empty to search the current and previous federal fiscal years (fiscal years start on 1 October); USAspending cannot sort its full history since 2007 in time (it times out after 60 seconds), so for older awards set "Awarded since" and pull one or two fiscal years per run
• Agency - focus on a specific awarding agency
• Recipient name - pull one company's award history
• NAICS codes - target your industry classification(s)
• Place of performance - filter by where the work happens
• Keywords - match award descriptions
• Award amount range - set a minimum and/or maximum dollar value
• Max run seconds - wall-clock budget for the run (default 240). USAspending answers a fiscal-year window in seconds but can take 30 seconds or more per page of 100 awards on a wide one; when the budget is reached the Actor stops cleanly and finishes successfully with the awards it already has, and records stoppedEarlyOnTimeLimit: true in the run's SUMMARY. Raise it, together with the run timeout, for a deliberately large pull

Modes: choose procurement contracts (award types A, B, C, D) or IDVs (indefinite delivery vehicles) to match the award category you care about.

Example use cases

• Find who won federal contracts in your NAICS code. Filter by one or more NAICS codes and a recent time period to build a ranked list of prime contractors to study or pitch.
• Pull a competitor's full award history. Query by recipient name to see every contract they hold, the agencies buying from them, dollar totals, and outlays.
• Map an agency's buying patterns. Filter by awarding agency and PSC to see what a target agency actually procures and from whom - ideal for capture planning.
• Build a subcontracting lead list. Combine NAICS, place of performance, and award amount range to surface primes with sizable recent awards in your region.
• Export federal spending data for BI. Run a broad query and export to CSV/Excel to feed dashboards, TAM sizing, or win/loss analysis.

Recurring use / scheduling

Set this actor to run on a schedule (daily, weekly, or monthly) to monitor new federal contract awards as they post - useful for BD alerting and lead generation. A common pattern:

1. Save a query with your target NAICS codes, agencies, and a rolling time period.
2. Schedule the run at your chosen cadence.
3. Compare each run against prior output using the unique awardId (and recipientId) to dedupe and isolate only newly added or changed awards.
4. Route the fresh rows to your CRM, spreadsheet, or alerting workflow.

Because every record carries stable identifiers, deduping across runs is straightforward - you only act on what's actually new.

Optional: check a final reporting CSV

If you turn award results into a daily or weekly research report, check the final transformed CSV after your filters and joins. First inspect SUMMARY.sourceError, stoppedEarlyOnTimeLimit and stoppedOnChargeLimit; a successful run can still contain a partial collection.

For a synthetic or sanitized summary, group collected rows by awardingAgency and count them. Your workflow could produce awarding_agency,award_rows,report_generated_at: these are derived summary columns, not this Actor’s native output. The generation timestamp does not prove USAspending’s publication freshness. Performance startDate and endDate are not report-generation dates.

Try the free browser CSV checker with required summary headers and a deliberate row range. Allow zero rows when no awards legitimately match. Structural checks do not reconcile award amounts, verify the derived count or establish complete source coverage.

The final-export workflow guide explains optional recurring checks. Report Watch accepts up to 1 MiB, 100 columns and 10,000 data rows. Monitoring needs separate paid setup and a configured HTTP submission; it is not built into this Actor. Keep Apify’s native monitoring if it already covers your needs.

FAQ

How do I export federal contract award data to CSV or Excel?

Run the actor with your filters and export the resulting dataset. Apify lets you download results as CSV, Excel, or JSON, so you can open them directly or import into your CRM or BI tool - no manual portal downloads.

How can I find which companies won federal contracts in my NAICS code?

Set the NAICS code filter (one or more codes) plus a time period, then run. The output lists each winning recipientName, the awardAmount, the awardingAgency, and an awardUrl for every matching award.

Is there a USAspending API alternative that needs no API key?

Yes - that's exactly what this is. It reads the public USAspending.gov data with no API key and no account, and hands you clean structured records instead of raw API responses you'd otherwise have to parse yourself.

How do I look up a company's federal contract award history?

Filter by recipient name. The actor returns that company's awards with amounts, outlays, awarding agency and sub-agency, NAICS/PSC classifications, periods of performance, and direct award links.

How can I pull federal contract awards by agency and recipient in bulk?

Combine the agency filter and the recipient-name filter (and add a time period to bound the range). The scraper returns every matching award as structured rows, ready to export in bulk.

How do I get federal spending data for GovCon competitive analysis?

Query by agency, NAICS, place of performance, or award amount to isolate your competitive segment, then export the full field set - amounts, outlays, PSC/NAICS, and recipients - into your analysis or BI tooling.

How can I monitor new federal contract awards for lead generation?

Schedule recurring runs against a saved query (your NAICS codes, agencies, region), then dedupe each run on awardId to surface only new awards. Route those to your lead-gen or BD workflow.

What data fields does the USAspending awards download include (NAICS, PSC, outlays)?

Each record includes award ID, recipient name and ID, award amount, total outlays, description, awarding agency and sub-agency, award type, NAICS (code + description), PSC (code + description), start and end dates, place-of-performance state, and a direct award URL.

Data source & notes

• Source: USAspending.gov - the official open data source for US federal spending, published by the US Treasury. This actor uses its public spending_by_award API. The data is public and free to use; no API key or login is required.
• Scope: Procurement contracts (award types A/B/C/D) and IDVs. This actor focuses on contract awards, not grants or loans.
• Freshness & completeness: Data reflects what USAspending.gov has published; agency reporting lags and the source's own coverage rules apply. Fields are populated as provided by the source - some awards may have empty values (for example, a missing NAICS, PSC, or place-of-performance state).
• Accuracy: All output fields listed above map directly to the source data; the actor does not enrich or fabricate values.

Related actors

Part of a set of US public-records tools that work well together:

• Grants.gov Scraper - the grant side of federal funding, with full opportunity detail
• Federal Register Scraper - the rules and notices that shape upcoming procurement
• SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper - public-company filings for diligence on primes and competitors

See the full collection at apify.com/maydit.

Free guide: Querying USAspending for contract awards without an API key - the undocumented traps in this data source, measured against the live API.

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Run spending limits

The run stops at its spending limit. SUMMARY.datasetItemsSaved reports the number of rows actually saved, and SUMMARY.stoppedOnChargeLimit identifies this stop. A final batch may be saved only in part; increase the spending limit to collect more results.

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Open Run report in the run’s Output tab for saved-record counts, reported source issues and limits, and suggested next steps. Use CSV export to take the saved results into a spreadsheet. The existing JSON results and detailed machine-readable summary remain available.

The report reflects this run’s recorded coverage. A successful run or a saved result does not establish that every possible source record was collected.