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.

⏰ 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.

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