US Government Contracts & Grants

Answer the two questions every government-market team asks:

1. Who is winning federal money? Contracts, delivery orders, IDVs, grants, loans and other awards from USAspending.gov: recipient, amount, awarding agency, NAICS, PSC, place of performance and dates, largest first.
2. What can I still apply for? Open and forecasted funding opportunities from Grants.gov: deadline, award ceiling and floor, estimated total funding, eligible applicants and the program contact.

Both are official, public US government APIs. No login, no API key.

Use cases

• Competitive intelligence: every contract a competitor (e.g. Palantir) won this year, with amounts and agencies.
• Lead generation: companies that just won large cybersecurity or AI contracts are buying subcontractors, tools and staff.
• Grant hunting: open NSF, NIH, DOE or USDA opportunities for your topic, with deadline and how much you can get.
• Market sizing: total spend by agency, NAICS code or state on a topic.
• AI agents: structured JSON with a recordType on every row and error rows with hints.

Input

Field	What it does
keywords	Words to match, e.g. artificial intelligence, cybersecurity. Used by both sources.
searchAwards	Search awarded money on USAspending (default on).
awardTypes	contracts (default), idvs, grants, loans, direct_payments, other_assistance.
recipientName	Only awards to this company or university.
agencies	Awarding agency names as on USAspending, e.g. Department of Defense.
naicsCodes	Contracts only, e.g. 541512.
states	Place of performance, e.g. VA, TX.
startDate / endDate	YYYY-MM-DD. Default: the last 12 months. Awards with any spending action in the period are included, so a multi-year contract signed earlier still shows up while it is being paid.
minAmount	Skip awards below this amount (USD).
maxAwards	Max awards per type, largest first (default 25).
searchGrantOpportunities	Search Grants.gov (default on).
grantStatuses	posted (open now) and forecasted (default), or closed, archived.
grantAgencyCodes	Grants.gov agency codes, e.g. NSF, DOE, HHS-NIH11.
includeGrantDetails	Description, ceiling, floor, eligibility and contact for each opportunity (default on).
maxGrantOpportunities	Max opportunities (default 25).

Output

award

{
  "recordType": "award",
  "awardCategory": "contracts",
  "awardId": "W911QX20C0023",
  "recipientName": "ECS FEDERAL, LLC",
  "amount": 120492195.74,
  "awardingAgency": "Department of Defense",
  "description": "RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORT TO DESIGN AND DEVELOP PROTOTYPE ...",
  "startDate": "2020-09-28",
  "naics": { "code": "541715", "description": "RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES" },
  "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W911QX20C0023_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-"
}

grantOpportunity

{
  "recordType": "grantOpportunity",
  "title": "Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL)",
  "agency": "U.S. National Science Foundation",
  "status": "posted",
  "closeDate": "2027-02-10",
  "awardCeiling": null,
  "eligibleApplicants": ["Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above) ..."],
  "contactEmail": "grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov",
  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/320753"
}

error: unknown award type, search too broad, no results or an API error, each with a hint.

Good to know

• Award searches need at least one of keywords, recipientName, agencies or naicsCodes. A search over all federal spending would return millions of rows.
• SAM.gov contract opportunities (open bids) need a personal SAM.gov API key and are not included yet.
• Amounts are the award's total obligated amount as reported by USAspending.

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