US Federal Contract Spending Intelligence API

Analyze US federal contract spending by agency and recipient. Built for suppliers, bid teams, analysts and AI agents.

⏰ Run this as a spending watch (recommended)

This is a monitoring subscription, not a one-shot lookup. Schedule a weekly sweep and catch new awards as they post:

{
  "award_type": "both",
  "keywords": ["cybersecurity"],
  "lookback_days": 7,
  "max_results": 25
}

Weekly cron (0 8 * * 1) turns this into an always-on spending watch.

📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per award (15 fields):

• award_type — contract or grant
• award_id — USAspending award ID (PIID / FAIN)
• recipient — Awardee name
• awarding_agency / awarding_sub_agency — Awarding agency
• award_amount — Award amount (USD)
• start_date / end_date — Period of performance
• naics / psc — Industry and product/service codes (contracts)
• place_state — Place-of-performance state code
• description — Award description (first 300 chars)
• award_url — Link to the award on usaspending.gov
• source / detected_at — Provenance

Pricing: $0.05 per award record (Pay-Per-Event) — about 20 awards per $1.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and run US federal contract spending analysis on demand.

Sample agent prompt:

Show the top US federal contract recipients for an agency this year.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

🔗 Related procurement actors

Monitor government contracts across the US, EU, UK and APAC: EU TED Tenders, UK Find a Tender, US Federal Awards, US Contracts Search, US Grants, Singapore GeBIZ

Procurement agent front door: Gov Contracts Procurement MCP

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Data from USAspending.gov (api.usaspending.gov), the official US federal spending API.