GovProcurement-Bidwatch — Government Procurement Monitor

Monitor federal procurement portals (USAspending.gov) for contract opportunities, awards, and bid notices. Get structured JSON records filtered by keyword, minimum contract value, and state — ready for CRM ingestion, alerting pipelines, or spreadsheet analysis.

Built for B2B sales teams, government-contract consultants, and market-intelligence analysts who need a machine-readable feed of public-sector spending without manual portal browsing.

What it does

• Queries the USAspending.gov API for verified federal award and contract data
• Filters by keywords, minimum contract value, and state
• Scores every record by value + keyword relevance (0–100) so you can prioritize the biggest opportunities
• Returns clean, deduplicated JSON with direct URLs back to the official award page
• Handles API errors gracefully — never crashes the run because of a single bad response

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
start_urls	string	—	Comma-separated procurement portal URLs (reserved for future multi-source crawls)
max_pages	number	100	Maximum result pages to fetch (each page = up to 10 records)
keywords	string	—	Comma-separated keywords to filter contracts, e.g. medical equipment,hospital,healthcare
state_filter	array	—	Filter by US state (array of state codes, e.g. ["CA","TX"])
min_contract_value	number	0	Minimum contract value in USD
email_alerts	boolean	false	Send email alerts when new records are found
webhook_url	string	—	Webhook URL for real-time alerts

Output

One JSON record per contract/award, e.g.:

{
  "id": "CONT_AWD_123456789_1234",
  "source": "USAspending.gov",
  "title": "Medical imaging equipment and maintenance services for VA hospitals",
  "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_123456789_1234",
  "agency": "Department of Veterans Affairs",
  "category": "medical equipment",
  "contract_value": 450000,
  "posted_date": "2026-01-15",
  "deadline": "2026-06-30",
  "status": "awarded",
  "keywords_matched": ["medical equipment", "hospital"],
  "score": 85
}

Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify dataset, or consume via API.

Real-world examples

Example 1 — Healthcare contracts over $100K

A medical-device sales rep wants a weekly list of federal healthcare awards to identify agency buyers.

{
  "keywords": "medical equipment,hospital,healthcare,imaging",
  "min_contract_value": 100000,
  "max_pages": 50
}

Example 2 — High-value construction bids in California and Texas

A construction contractor monitors large awards in target states.

{
  "keywords": "construction,building,infrastructure",
  "state_filter": ["CA", "TX"],
  "min_contract_value": 500000,
  "max_pages": 100
}

Example 3 — Daily alert feed with webhook

A SaaS platform ingests procurement data into its own dashboard via webhook.

{
  "keywords": "software,cloud,SaaS,cybersecurity",
  "min_contract_value": 25000,
  "max_pages": 30,
  "webhook_url": "https://api.yourplatform.com/webhooks/procurement"
}

Use cases

• B2B sales teams — identify agencies and prime contractors already buying in your category
• Government-contract consultants — track award trends and spot re-compete opportunities early
• Market-intelligence platforms — feed structured federal spending data into internal analytics tools
• Competitive analysis — monitor which competitors are winning awards and at what value points
• Supplier-diversity programs — filter awards by small-business or minority-owned set-asides

Scheduling & integrations

Run on a schedule (daily or weekly) directly in Apify, or trigger via API, Zapier, Make, or webhooks. Combine with min_contract_value and keywords to create an incremental alert pipeline that only notifies you when relevant high-value awards appear.

Cost & reliability

• Flat pricing: $0.00036 per result + $0.001 run start fee — 1,000 records costs $0.36
• Deterministic: direct REST API calls to USAspending.gov — no browser rendering, no LLM
• Cheap: single POST request per run, typically <10 seconds of compute
• Data license: public federal spending data, free to reuse
• Source stability: USAspending.gov is the official U.S. Treasury API; schema changes are rare and versioned