USAspending Scraper: Federal Contracts & Grants Awards

Search US federal contract, grant and loan awards on USAspending.gov: recipient, UEI, amount, agency, NAICS, PSC, dates and place of performance. $1.00 per 1,000 awards.

USAspending.gov is the official source for every US federal award: trillions of dollars of contracts, grants and loans. See who wins what, from which agency, in your industry and state.

Quick start

1. Press Start. The form is already filled with this example input, so the first run returns real rows in under a minute:

{
  "keywords": [
    "cybersecurity"
  ],
  "maxResults": 30
}

2. Swap in your own values, or call the Actor through the Apify API, Make, Zapier, n8n or the Python/JS clients with the same JSON.
3. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Output tab, or schedule the run to repeat.

Full guide: How to Find Federal Contract Awards by NAICS Code and State with the USAspending API (Real Run: IT Contracts in Virginia)

What the USAspending Federal Awards Scraper does

The Actor queries USAspending's official public award search API. You choose the award type (contracts, IDVs, grants or loans) and filter by keywords, NAICS codes, PSC codes, agencies, recipient names or UEIs, states of performance, amount range and a date window. Each award becomes one row with the award ID, category and type, recipient name and UEI, award amount, total outlays, description, start and end dates, base obligation date, awarding agency and sub-agency, funding agency, NAICS and PSC codes with descriptions, assistance listings for grants, place of performance, last modified date and links to the award and recipient pages on USAspending.

Results are sorted by amount (largest first) or by newest start date. Records for individuals and redacted or multiple recipients are skipped, so the output only has organisations.

• Contracts, IDVs, grants and loans from the official source.
• Filter by NAICS, PSC, agency, recipient, state and amount.
• Links to every award and recipient page.

Who it is for

• Federal contractors: see who wins the work you bid on, and which agencies buy it.
• Business development teams: find incumbents and contracts nearing their end date to target recompetes.
• Analysts and journalists: follow federal spending by agency, company or state.
• Grant seekers: see which organisations win grants in your program area.

Real example: the largest IT contracts in Virginia with recent activity

Say you sell IT services to the federal government and want to know the biggest contracts performed in Virginia under NAICS 541512 (computer systems design services) that had an obligation or modification in the last 30 days, at least $1 million each, largest first. You cap it at 25 rows.

Step 1: Enter the input

Open the USAspending Federal Awards Scraper in Apify Console, switch the input form to JSON and paste this. It is the exact input used for the run in this guide:

{
  "naicsCodes": [
    "541512"
  ],
  "statesOfPerformance": [
    "VA"
  ],
  "awardCategory": "contracts",
  "lastDays": 30,
  "minAmount": 1000000,
  "maxResults": 25
}

What each setting does:

• naicsCodes: 541512, computer systems design services.
• statesOfPerformance: VA, the state where the work is performed.
• awardCategory: contracts. IDVs, grants and loans are the other options.
• lastDays: 30, awards with an obligation or modification in the last 30 days.
• minAmount: 1000000, awards of $1 million or more.
• maxResults: 25 rows at most.

Step 2: Run it

Press Start. On 30 October 2026 this input finished with status SUCCEEDED in about 6 seconds and saved 25 rows to the run's dataset. The run was charged 25 award events plus one start event, so the bill was $0.0251 on the Free/Bronze tier. USAspending returned a first page of 100 matching awards and the run stopped at the 25-row cap, largest first. No records needed to be skipped.

Step 3: Read the output

Here are the first rows of the real dataset, cut to the most useful columns:

recipientName	awardingAgency	amount	startDate	endDate
BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC	Department of Veterans Affairs	1138891386.64	2021-01-08	2025-04-15
CACI, INC. - FEDERAL	General Services Administration	979385697.35	2019-05-20	2026-11-19
CACI, INC. - FEDERAL	General Services Administration	977933614.86	2024-05-01	2027-04-30
ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC	Department of Education	943157459.01	2019-02-20	2027-02-19
SALIENT CRGT, INC.	General Services Administration	919928962.09	2024-05-17	2029-05-16
ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC	Department of Health and Human Services	796233862.71	2021-07-11	2027-01-10
CACI, INC. - FEDERAL	Department of Homeland Security	714227542.39	2024-09-30	2027-09-29
BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC	General Services Administration	710558512.24	2024-05-01	2027-04-30
SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION	Department of Homeland Security	615526452.02	2021-09-15	2027-03-16
DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP	Department of Veterans Affairs	416988484.17	2024-08-01	2027-10-20
ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC	Department of Education	383121393.11	2025-08-01	2031-07-31
ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC	Department of Agriculture	369247718.81	2017-09-19	2027-05-31

And one full row as JSON (long text shortened with …):

{
  "awardId": "36C10B21N10150056",
  "category": "contracts",
  "awardType": "DELIVERY ORDER",
  "recipientName": "BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC",
  "recipientUei": "KHK6E1JW9C15",
  "amount": 1138891386.64,
  "outlays": 545978010.74,
  "description": "PRODUCT AND TECHNOLOGY ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT SERVICES (PTEMS)WHICH INCLUDES PRODUCT DELIVERY AND LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT TO TRANSFORM VA BY TAPPING INTO EMERGING TE…",
  "startDate": "2021-01-08",
  "endDate": "2025-04-15",
  "baseObligationDate": "2021-01-07",
  "awardingAgency": "Department of Veterans Affairs",
  "awardingSubAgency": "Department of Veterans Affairs",
  "fundingAgency": "Department of Veterans Affairs",
  "naicsCode": "541512",
  "naicsDescription": "COMPUTER SYSTEMS DESIGN SERVICES",
  "pscCode": "DA01",
  "pscDescription": "IT AND TELECOM - BUSINESS APPLICATION/APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT SERVICES (LABOR)",
  "placeOfPerformanceState": "VA",
  "placeOfPerformanceCountry": "USA",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-21 13:07:06",
  "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_36C10B21N10150056_3600_VA11816D1015_3600",
  "recipientUrl": "https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/30b32b62-ffbf-d7e6-5b9d-95a295b95a6d-C/latest"
}

What the 25 real awards show:

• $12.1 billion in 25 awards. The largest is Booz Allen Hamilton's $1.14 billion Department of Veterans Affairs order for product and technology ecosystem management, and the smallest in the top 25 is CGI Federal's $149 million GSA order. All are well above the $1 million minimum, because the list is sorted largest first.
• Accenture Federal Services appears 8 times, followed by CACI with 4, and Booz Allen, SAIC and CGI Federal with 2 each.
• GSA is the biggest buyer here. 10 of the 25 are from the General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service, which buys IT on behalf of other agencies, followed by Homeland Security (5, all U.S. Customs and Border Protection), Veterans Affairs (4) and Education (3).
• Recent activity does not mean a new award. Most of these started years ago (the oldest, Accenture's USDA cloud hosting order, in 2017), and two had already passed their end date (Booz Allen's VA order ended in April 2025, ManTech's CBP order in September 2026) but were modified this month. Use sortBy newest, or check startDate, to find new awards.
• Outlays can be zero or negative. All 10 GSA orders and two new orders show zero or negative outlays, while their award amounts are in the hundreds of millions. amount is the obligated award amount and outlays is what has been paid out as reported, so do not read zero outlays as zero spending.

amount is the award's total obligated amount over its life, not the amount obligated in the last 30 days. The date window only decides which awards are included.

NAICS, PSC and the date window

NAICS codes describe the industry of the work (541512 computer systems design, 541511 custom programming, 541519 other computer services). PSC codes describe the product or service bought (DA01 application development, D399 other IT services), and are often more precise. Both apply to contracts and IDVs only. For grants, use keywords, agencies and the assistance listings.

lastDays includes awards with any obligation or modification in the window, which suits a monitor of active contracts. For a fixed period, set startDate and endDate instead. An IDV (indefinite delivery vehicle) is the parent contract that orders are placed under, so search contracts for the orders and IDVs for the vehicles.

Output fields

Each row in the dataset has these fields. The example column shows a value from the run above.

Field	What it means	Example from this run
awardId / url	Award ID (PIID or FAIN) and the USAspending award page.	36C10B21N10150056 / https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_36C10B21N10150056…
category / awardType	contracts, idvs, grants or loans; and the type, for example DELIVERY ORDER or DEFINITIVE CONTRACT.	contracts / DELIVERY ORDER
recipientName / recipientUei / recipientUrl	The company or organisation, its Unique Entity ID and its USAspending page.	BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC / KHK6E1JW9C15 / https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/30b32b62-ffbf-d7e6-5b9…
amount / outlays	Total obligated award amount and total outlays, in US dollars.	1138891386.64 / 545978010.74
description	Award description as entered by the agency.	PRODUCT AND TECHNOLOGY ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT SERVICES (PTEMS)…
startDate / endDate / baseObligationDate	Period of performance and first obligation date.	2021-01-08 / 2025-04-15 / 2021-01-07
awardingAgency / awardingSubAgency / fundingAgency	Who awarded and who pays.	Department of Veterans Affairs / Department of Veterans Affairs / Department of Veterans Affairs
naicsCode / naicsDescription / pscCode / pscDescription	Industry and product or service codes.	541512 / COMPUTER SYSTEMS DESIGN SERVICES / DA01 / IT AND TELECOM - BUSINESS APPLICATION/APPLICATION DEVELOPMEN…
assistanceListings	Assistance listing (CFDA) programs, for grants.	[] (empty in every row)
placeOfPerformanceState / placeOfPerformanceCountry	Where the work is done.	VA / USA
lastModified	When USAspending last updated the award.	2026-10-21 13:07:06

Export federal awards to CSV, Excel or Google Sheets

Every run saves its rows to a dataset, and a dataset can be downloaded in any common format. You do not need to write code for this.

From Apify Console. Open the run, go to the Output tab and click Export. Pick CSV, Excel (XLSX), JSON, XML, HTML or RSS. You can tick only the columns you want, for example awardId, recipientName, amount, awardingAgency, awardingSubAgency. Nested values such as lists are flattened into columns like assistanceListings/0 in CSV and Excel.

From a URL. The same export is a plain HTTPS link. Replace <DATASET_ID> with the dataset ID shown on the run's Storage tab:

# CSV with just the columns you need
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?format=csv&clean=1&fields=awardId,recipientName,amount,awardingAgency,awardingSubAgency,startDate,endDate,naicsCode,pscCode,url" -o federal-awards.csv

# Excel
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?format=xlsx&clean=1" -o federal-awards.xlsx

Into Google Sheets. You have three good options:

1. One-off: download the CSV and use File > Import > Upload in Google Sheets. Choose "Replace current sheet" to refresh an existing tab.
2. Automatic, no code: in Make, Zapier or n8n, use the Apify app's "Watch Actor runs" (or "Run Actor") trigger, then "Get dataset items", then the Google Sheets "Add row" action. Every scheduled run then lands in your sheet. Apify's own Google Sheets Import & Export Actor can also append a dataset to a sheet, and you can chain it to this Actor's runs with an integration.
3. Formula: =IMPORTDATA("https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/<USERNAME>~<TASK_NAME>/runs/last/dataset/items?status=SUCCEEDED&format=csv&token=<YOUR_TOKEN>") always pulls the latest successful run of a saved task. The token sits in the formula, so anyone who can open the sheet can see it. Only use this in a private sheet.

Schedule it to run every Monday at 7 AM

USAspending loads new data from the federal procurement system continuously, with some delay. A weekly run with lastDays set to 7 or 8 shows every award that changed that week; sort by newest to see new ones first.

1. In the Actor's input form, set up the input from Step 1 and click Save as new task. Give it a clear name such as va-it-awards-weekly.
2. Go to Schedules > Create new, set the cron expression to 0 7 * * 1 and pick your timezone, so it runs every Monday at 7 AM.
3. Add the task to the schedule and save. Each run gets its own fresh dataset.
4. Optional: on the task's Integrations tab, add a webhook, Slack or email notification for "Run succeeded", or connect Make, Zapier or n8n, so the new rows go where you need them.

To fetch the newest results without looking up a run ID, use the task's last-run link: https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/<USERNAME>~va-it-awards-weekly/runs/last/dataset/items?status=SUCCEEDED&format=json.

Call it from the API (Python, JavaScript or curl)

You can start the Actor from your own code with the official Apify clients. Put your API token (Console > Settings > API & Integrations) in an environment variable called APIFY_TOKEN rather than in the code.

Python (pip install "apify-client>=3"). Tested with apify-client 3.4:

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run_input = {
    "naicsCodes": [
        "541512"
    ],
    "statesOfPerformance": [
        "VA"
    ],
    "awardCategory": "contracts",
    "lastDays": 30,
    "minAmount": 1000000,
    "maxResults": 25
}

run = client.actor("mrslm_data/usaspending-awards").call(run_input=run_input)

# apify-client 3.x returns a Run object, so use run.default_dataset_id
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item["recipientName"], item["amount"])

In apify-client 3.x, call() returns a typed object. Older examples that use run["defaultDatasetId"] were written for 1.x and 2.x and fail in 3.x with TypeError: 'Run' object is not subscriptable.

JavaScript / Node.js (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const input = {
    "naicsCodes": [
        "541512"
    ],
    "statesOfPerformance": [
        "VA"
    ],
    "awardCategory": "contracts",
    "lastDays": 30,
    "minAmount": 1000000,
    "maxResults": 25
};

const run = await client.actor('mrslm_data/usaspending-awards').call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.length, items[0]);

curl, one request that runs the Actor and returns the rows as CSV (it waits up to 5 minutes, so keep the input small):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/mrslm_data~usaspending-awards/run-sync-get-dataset-items?format=csv" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"naicsCodes": ["541512"], "statesOfPerformance": ["VA"], "awardCategory": "contracts", "lastDays": 30, "minAmount": 1000000, "maxResults": 25}' -o federal-awards.csv

What it costs

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Award: $1.00 per 1,000 on the Free and Bronze tiers, $0.90 on Silver and $0.80 on Gold. Each run also has a start fee of $0.00005 per GB of memory (one event at the default memory). You are not billed separately for compute on normal runs: the event prices are the whole bill.

Price per event

Current pay-per-event prices for this Actor on Apify, by Apify subscription plan:

Event (per 1,000)	Free / Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
Award (award)	$1.00	$0.90	$0.80
Actor start (once per run at the default memory, not per 1,000)	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005

You are charged only for the events in this table: nothing for compute, and nothing for searches that return no rows beyond the start fee.

Scenario	Free / Bronze	Silver	Gold
The run in this guide (25 awards)	$0.0251	$0.0226	$0.0201
Weekly run, ~100 awards a week (4 runs)	$0.40	$0.36	$0.32
One-off: all awards over $1M for a NAICS code in a year (~3,000)	$3.00	$2.70	$2.40
Monthly run for 20 competitors (~2,000 awards)	$2.00	$1.80	$1.60

To cap spending, set Maximum cost per run in the run options (or maxTotalChargeUsd in the API). The Actor stops cleanly at the cap and you are never billed past it. Raise minAmount to skip small awards you do not need.

Limits

• USAspending data comes from agency reporting and arrives with a delay; recent awards can be missing or change later.
• Each search returns at most 10,000 awards (100 pages of 100). Narrow the filters for more.
• Awards to individuals, redacted recipients and multiple-recipient records are skipped.
• Subawards are not included.
• Contract opportunities (open bids) are not on USAspending; they are on SAM.gov.

FAQ

Is this the same data as USAspending.gov? Yes. It comes from the official USAspending API, and every row links to its award page there.

Can I find contracts that are about to end? Yes. Export with endDate and sort by it. Contracts ending in the next year are often recompeted.

Can I search for one company's awards? Yes. Put its name or UEI in recipientNames.

Does it show open solicitations? No. USAspending shows awards made. Open bids are on SAM.gov.

Do you have EU or UK tenders? Yes: TED EU Tenders and UK Public Tenders.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Save your input as a task and attach a schedule, as shown above. Each run is independent and returns the federal awards available at that moment.

Does it work with Make, Zapier or n8n? Yes. All three have an Apify app. Use "Run Actor" (or run a saved task), then "Get dataset items" to pass the rows to the next step, such as Google Sheets, Airtable, a CRM or Slack.

Can AI agents use it through MCP? Yes. Apify's hosted MCP server can expose this Actor as a tool to any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code and others). Add https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=mrslm_data/usaspending-awards as a remote MCP server and sign in with your Apify account or API token. The agent fills in the same input fields shown above and gets the same rows back, billed at the same per-event prices.

Is it legal?

This Actor only reads official open-data APIs that the publisher offers to everyone without a login or key. It obeys robots.txt, stays under the published rate limits, and never tries to get past logins, paywalls, captchas or bot checks. Awards to individuals, redacted recipients and aggregate "multiple recipients" records are skipped, so every row is an award to an organisation. You are responsible for how you use the data: follow the source's licence and terms and the privacy and marketing laws that apply to you (GDPR, CAN-SPAM, PECR, etc.). This tool is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by the data publisher.