US Federal Contract Spending Intelligence API

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

📊 Sample Output

award_type	award_id	recipient	awarding_agency	awarding_sub_agency	award_amount
contract	DEAC0494AL85000	LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP	Department of Energy	Department of Energy	48063737196.35
contract	DENA0003525	NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS OF SANDIA, LLC	Department of Energy	Department of Energy	43198566451.99
contract	DEAC0500OR22725	UT-BATTELLE LLC	Department of Energy	Department of Energy	42436211927.7
contract	DEAC5207NA27344	LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC	Department of Energy	Department of Energy	41519790021.9
contract	89233218CNA000001	TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC	Department of Energy	Department of Energy	35199796916.66
contract	DENA0001942	CONSOLIDATED NUCLEAR SECURITY, LLC	Department of Energy	Department of Energy	34654023638.7

Real rows from run 5b8oV73u7kbgRwI3p on build 0.0.6 (2026-09-24), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
award_type	string (both, contracts, grants)	"both"	Which awards to pull: contracts, grants, or both.
recipients	array		Filter to specific awardee companies by name (e.g. Lockheed, Booz Allen). Empty = all recipients.
keywords	array		Free-text keywords matched against award descriptions (e.g. cybersecurity, cloud, AI).
naics	array		Filter contracts by NAICS industry code (e.g. 541512 computer systems design).
lookback_days	integer	90	How far back (by award action date) to pull awards.
min_amount	integer	0	Only return awards at or above this dollar amount. 0 = no filter.
max_results	integer	25	Maximum awards returned per type (contracts / grants).

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run 5b8oV73u7kbgRwI3p (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "award_type": "contract",
  "award_id": "DEAC0494AL85000",
  "recipient": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP",
  "awarding_agency": "Department of Energy",
  "awarding_sub_agency": "Department of Energy",
  "award_amount": 48063737196.35,
  "start_date": "1993-10-15",
  "end_date": "2017-04-30",
  "naics": {
    "code": "561210",
    "description": "FACILITIES SUPPORT SERVICES"
  },
  "psc": {
    "code": "M181",
    "description": "OPER OF GOVT R&D GOCO FACILITIES"
  },
  "place_state": "NM",
  "description": "",
  "award_url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_DEAC0494AL85000_8900_-NONE-_-NONE-",
  "source": "USAspending.gov",
  "detected_at": "2026-09-24T23:58:47.909881+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Award record (award-record)	$0.05	Charged per federal contract/grant award record returned.

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.05 = $5.00 plus the start fee.

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• US Federal Grant Opportunities — Grants.gov API
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⏰ 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.