SAM.gov Contract Opportunities & Awarded Contracts Scraper (USAspending) — with New-Only Alerts

Get federal contract opportunities from SAM.gov and awarded federal contracts from USAspending.gov in one Actor. Filter by keyword, NAICS code, set-aside (8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, small business), agency, state, and date. Schedule it daily with "Only new since last run" to get bid alerts and competitor award alerts without duplicates.

Uses the official public government APIs: no scraping of logged-in pages, no cookies, no proxies, no broken runs when the website changes.

Why this one

	This Actor	Typical SAM.gov scrapers
Open opportunities (RFPs, RFQs, sources sought)	✅	✅
Awarded contracts: who won, how much (USAspending)	✅ no key needed	❌
Only-new mode for daily alerts (dedup across runs)	✅	❌
Agency filter + min award amount	✅	partial
Multiple NAICS × set-aside × state in one run	✅	partial
Flat, spreadsheet-ready rows (CSV/Excel/Sheets)	✅	nested JSON
Contracting officer name/email/phone + attachment links	✅	some

Use cases

• Bid alerts for government contractors: daily list of new solicitations for your NAICS codes and set-asides.
• Competitor intelligence: see which companies win contracts in your NAICS code, at which agency, and for how much.
• Lead generation for B2G sales: recipients of new awards are companies with new budgets that need subcontractors, staffing, and software.
• Market research / capture planning: agency spending by NAICS, PSC, and state.
• AI agents and MCP: clean flat records for LLM pipelines.

Modes

• awards (default): awarded contracts (definitive contracts, purchase orders, delivery and task orders) from USAspending.gov. No API key.
• opportunities: live SAM.gov contract opportunities. Needs a free SAM.gov public API key (sam.gov → sign in → Account Details → Public API Key).

Input example

{ "mode": "awards", "keywords": ["cybersecurity"], "naicsCodes": ["541512"], "states": ["VA"],
  "daysBack": 30, "minAwardAmount": 100000, "maxResults": 500, "onlyNew": true, "stateKey": "cyber-va" }

Output example (awards)

{ "source": "usaspending.gov", "recordType": "award", "awardId": "70B04C23F00001163",
  "title": "CYBERSECURITY SUPPORT SERVICES", "agency": "Department of Homeland Security",
  "subAgency": "U.S. Customs and Border Protection", "naics": "541512", "psc": "DJ01",
  "recipientName": "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, L.L.C.", "recipientUei": "EFRANUTCRPJ6",
  "awardAmount": 4483374.94, "state": "VA", "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/..." }

Opportunity rows add solicitationNumber, noticeType, setAside, postedDate, responseDeadline, contactName, contactEmail, contactPhone, and attachmentUrls.

Daily alerts in 2 minutes

1. Set onlyNew: true and a unique stateKey per saved search.
2. Create an Apify Schedule (for example daily at 07:00).
3. Add an integration (email, Slack, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, or a webhook). Each run returns only records you haven't seen before.

Pricing

Pay per result, with no platform usage charged to you. Runs that return 0 new records cost almost nothing, so daily alerts stay cheap.

FAQ

Is this legal? Yes. It uses the official public APIs from api.sam.gov and api.usaspending.gov. Why does awards mode show older start dates? The date window matches contract actions (new awards and modifications) in that period, so ongoing contracts with recent modifications are included. SAM.gov rate limits? Free personal keys get about 10 requests a day; a registered entity's key gets more. Each request returns up to 1,000 opportunities.

Keywords: SAM.gov scraper, SAM.gov API, federal contract opportunities, government RFP alerts, USAspending API, federal contract awards, NAICS search, 8(a) set-aside, HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, government contracting leads, GovCon, B2G lead generation.