US Government Contracts (Open Data)

Track awarded government contracts across US city, county and state open-data portals — vendors, values, agencies and dates — in one normalized feed. For vendor prospecting, competitive bid intelligence and market research.

Official government open-data (Socrata public portals). Factual public procurement records.

📊 Sample Output

jurisdiction	title	agency	vendor	value	sourceUrl
Chicago, IL	PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING DESIGN SERVICES	DEPARTMENT OF FLEET AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT	MILHOUSE ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION INC.	0	https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/rsxa-ify5
Chicago, IL	RSIP ORD Phase 19B - Chicago O'Hare International Airport (Spec 12459…	CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF AVIATION	BLINDERMAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY INC	645680.5	https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/rsxa-ify5
Chicago, IL	PROFESSIONAL CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR BRIDGE REPAIR PROJ…	CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION	D.B. STERLIN CONSULTANTS, INC.	0	https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/rsxa-ify5
Chicago, IL	Runway 13C-31C and Associated Taxiways Rehabilitation - Midway Intern…	CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF AVIATION	K-FIVE CONSTRUCTION CORP./PLOTE CONSTRUCTION INC JV	373940.2	https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/rsxa-ify5
Chicago, IL	Grade Separated Service Roadway K/L TO S1 (Federally Funded) at O'Har…	CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF AVIATION	F.H. PASCHEN S.N. NIELSEN & ASSOCIATES, LLC	509438.9	https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/rsxa-ify5
Chicago, IL	Central Park Pumping Station Electrification Project	DEPARTMENT OF WATER MANAGEMENT	IHC CONSTRUCTION & F.H. PASCHEN S.N. NIELSEN	-590530.4	https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/rsxa-ify5

Real rows from run xYmWwlrgjungmz9ch on build 0.0.2 (2026-09-25), 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
keyword	string	"construction"	Full-text search across contract descriptions and vendors (leave blank for all).
jurisdictions	array of string	["chicago", "cook-county", "austin", "montgomery-md"]	Which government open-data portals to query.
minValue	integer		Only contracts at or above this award value (where the dataset exposes a value).
dateFrom	string		YYYY-MM-DD; only contracts on/after this date (where the dataset exposes a date).
maxResults	integer	25	Maximum contract records to return (split across selected jurisdictions).

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run xYmWwlrgjungmz9ch (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "jurisdiction": "Chicago, IL",
  "title": "PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING DESIGN SERVICES",
  "agency": "DEPARTMENT OF FLEET AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT",
  "vendor": "MILHOUSE ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION INC.",
  "value": 0,
  "startDate": "2015-12-11T00:00:00.000",
  "endDate": "2027-05-30T00:00:00.000",
  "contractNumber": "32967",
  "url": {
    "url": "http://ecm.cityofchicago.org/eSMARTContracts/service/DPSWebDocumentViewer?sid=ESMART&id={009EC9A0-0000-C41F-A14A-A79AC6183B95}"
  },
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/rsxa-ify5"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.005	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Contract record (contract-record)	$0.05	Charged for each government contract 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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⏰ Run this as a daily new-contract monitor (recommended)

{ "keyword": "construction", "jurisdictions": ["chicago","cook-county","austin","montgomery-md"], "minValue": 100000, "maxResults": 100 }

Schedule a daily sweep (0 7 * * *) — procurement buyers are monitoring buyers; catch new awards as they post.

📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per contract (fields from a live test run):

• jurisdiction — awarding government (city/county)
• title — contract description
• agency — awarding department
• vendor — awarded vendor
• value — award/limit amount (USD, where the source exposes it)
• startDate · endDate — contract term
• contractNumber · sourceUrl — official open-data record

Pricing: $0.05 per contract record (Pay-Per-Event) — about 20 contracts per $1. Plus a $0.005 actor-start.

🗺️ Coverage (honest)

Live today: Chicago (IL), Cook County (IL), Austin (TX), Montgomery County (MD) — official open-data portals, daily-updated. Roadmap: additional states/counties as their open-data contract datasets are verified. Coverage is the open-data-publishing jurisdictions, not scraped procurement portals.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Sample agent prompt:

Find construction contracts over $500k awarded this year and return vendor, agency and value.

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

🔗 The government-contracts franchise

Federal: USAspending Awards · US Gov Contracts Search · Federal Spending Intelligence International tenders: EU TED · UK Find a Tender · Singapore GeBIZ · Taiwan Gov Procurement

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Official government open-data procurement records. Assembled for vendor prospecting and market research.

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