🇺🇸 USAspending Federal Awards Scraper — GovTech Sales Intel

Scrape U.S. federal contract and grant awards directly from USAspending.gov, the Treasury Department's official open spending feed. Filter by date range, awarding agency, state, and award type — get back structured rows with Award ID, recipient, amount, agency, place of performance, period of performance, and description.

Built for GovTech sales teams prospecting into federal-recipient companies, federal contractors hunting RFP follow-ups, compliance and audit teams, lobbyist firms mapping spending patterns, and journalists reporting on federal procurement.

What you get per award

• award_id — USAspending's award identifier (PIID for contracts, FAIN for grants)
• internal_id, generated_internal_id — link directly into USAspending's award detail pages
• recipient_name, recipient_uei — vendor / grantee name and Unique Entity ID
• award_amount_usd — total obligated dollar amount
• total_outlays_usd — actual dollars disbursed to date
• description — agency-supplied description of work / purpose
• awarding_agency, awarding_sub_agency — top-tier and sub-tier awarding agency
• funding_agency, funding_sub_agency — top-tier and sub-tier funding agency
• place_of_performance_state_code, place_of_performance_city_code, place_of_performance_country_code, place_of_performance_zip5
• period_of_performance_start_date, period_of_performance_current_end_date
• contract_award_type (for contracts) — Definitive Contract, BPA Call, etc.
• award_type (for grants) — Project Grant, Formula Grant, etc.
• naics, psc — North American Industry Classification System code, Product/Service Code (contracts)
• cfda_number — Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance program number (grants)
• agency_slug — URL-safe agency slug
• award_category — contracts / grants / loans / other_financial_assistance
• source — "usaspending.gov"

Use cases

1. GovTech sales prospecting — find every recipient that won a $1M+ DoD contract last quarter; backfill into your CRM as ICP signal.
2. Competitive intel — track which companies are winning contracts in your market vertical (NAICS-filtered).
3. Federal RFP follow-up — recipients of recent definitive contracts often have follow-on procurement coming; ride the wave.
4. Compliance / audit — verify recipient UEIs against SAM.gov registrations.
5. Lobbyist / advocacy research — track grants to nonprofit recipients, mapped by state and agency.
6. Journalism / FOIA prep — surface high-dollar awards before filing FOIA for the underlying contract documents.

Quick start

Input:

{
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "dateTo": "2025-01-31",
  "awardTypes": ["A", "B", "C", "D"],
  "maxAwards": 50
}

Sample output row:

{
  "award_id": "ZN31",
  "recipient_name": "HPI FEDERAL LLC",
  "award_amount_usd": 463050.0,
  "description": "HPELITE DESKTOP PC ACCESSORIES, AND HP MONITOR FFP CHESS ORDER",
  "awarding_agency": "Department of Defense",
  "place_of_performance_state_code": "DC",
  "naics": "423430",
  "agency_slug": "department-of-defense",
  "award_category": "contracts",
  "source": "usaspending.gov"
}

Run via Python (apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/usaspending-federal-awards-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
        "dateTo": "2025-03-31",
        "agencyName": "Department of Defense",
        "state": "VA",
        "awardTypes": ["A", "B", "C", "D"],
        "maxAwards": 1000,
    }
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["recipient_name"], "-", item["award_amount_usd"])

Run via cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~usaspending-federal-awards-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"dateFrom":"2025-01-01","dateTo":"2025-01-31","awardTypes":["A","B","C","D"],"maxAwards":50}'

Integrations

• Zapier — fire on each new award, push to CRM as a new prospect signal.
• Make.com — chain into HubSpot / Salesforce on new award above a $-threshold.
• n8n — schedule daily, dedupe by generated_internal_id, push into Postgres for trend analysis.

Pricing

Pay-per-event (PPE):

• Actor start: $0.00005 (negligible)
• Per award: $0.08

Cost calculator:

Awards returned	Cost
50 (smoke test)	$4.00
500	$40.00
1,000	$80.00
5,000 (full quarter, broad pull)	$400.00

GovTribe and BGov subscriptions start at thousands per seat per year; this actor charges per award you pull.

FAQ

Q: Does this include both contracts and grants? A: Yes — feed awardTypes: ["A","B","C","D","02","03","04","05"] to get both. Contracts are A/B/C/D; grants are 02/03/04/05.

Q: What's the difference between Award Amount and Total Outlays? A: award_amount_usd is the total obligated. total_outlays_usd is dollars actually disbursed so far.

Q: How fresh is the data? A: USAspending refreshes nightly from agency systems. New awards typically appear within 1–3 business days of action.

Q: Can I filter by recipient name or NAICS? A: The current input doesn't expose those filters directly, but the API supports them. Open an issue if you need them and we'll add as named inputs.

Q: Is this real-time? A: No — USAspending lags by 1–3 business days. For trading-grade real-time, see SAM.gov contract opportunities (different actor coming).

Q: Why are some descriptions ALL-CAPS / cryptic? A: That's the agency-supplied text as-filed. Defense awards in particular use heavily abbreviated descriptions; the AwardID + recipient combo is usually enough to look up the underlying solicitation.

Related actors

• SEC Form D Private Placement Tracker — same buyer pool (B2B intel teams), private-funding side.
• FEC Independent Expenditures Scraper — federal political-finance data.
• Yelp Business Scraper — pair with USAspending recipient lookups for full B2B context.

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