Federal Contract Award Leads

US companies that just won a federal contract — while the money is still unspent.

Every business day the federal government obligates money to thousands of companies. Each of those companies has just acquired a budget, a deadline, and a delivery obligation. This Actor turns that public record into a scored, sales-ready lead list.

Data comes from the official USASpending.gov API — the government's own public API. No scraping, no logins, no terms-of-service grey area.

Who buys these leads

Buyer	Why a fresh award matters
Subcontractors & suppliers	The prime just won work and needs to source it out, now
Staffing & recruiting	New contract means new billets to fill against a deadline
GovCon consultants	Compliance, DCAA accounting, CMMC, proposal support
Receivables factoring	Federal receivables are prime factoring collateral
Bonding & insurance agents	New performance obligations need new coverage

What makes this different

Freshness is enforced, not claimed. The API's new_awards_only filter is mandatory in this Actor. Without it, a "last 14 days" query returns contracts first awarded in 1993 whose period of performance merely overlaps your window — a trap that makes a lead list look full while being worthless.

Sorted by date, not dollars. Sorting by award amount looks smarter but biases a capped run toward billion-dollar awards to established primes — the least sellable leads. This pages newest-first.

Repeat-winner detection. Recipients are resolved by UEI, not by name string, so "ACME CORP" and "Acme Corp." are one company. A recipient with several awards inside the window is flagged as actively buying and scored up.

Every score is explained. Each lead carries score_reasons in plain English. A lead you can't justify is a lead your sales team won't call.

Scoring

0–100, weighted toward recency, because a 60-day-old award has already been subcontracted:

• Recency — up to 40 points (within 7 days), decaying to 3 at 90 days
• Award size — peaks at 22 points for $250K–$2M; very large awards score lower, since those primes already have a supplier bench
• Repeat wins — +8 per extra award in the window, capped at +24
• Likely new entrant — +12 for a single mid-size award

Output

Recipient name, UEI, award ID, amount, award date and age, award type, awarding and funding agency, work description, NAICS and PSC codes with descriptions, recipient city/county/state/ZIP, place of performance, a link to the source record on USASpending, plus lead_score and score_reasons.

Input

All optional — running with no input returns the last 14 days nationwide.

• lookbackDays (default 14) — federal data lands with a reporting lag, so windows under 7 days can return very little
• states — place-of-performance state codes, e.g. IL, MO
• agencies — top-tier agency names as USASpending spells them
• naicsCodes — restrict to specific industries
• minAwardAmountUsd — screen out micro-purchases
• minLeadScore — only return leads at or above a score
• maxResults (default 1000)

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.02 per lead delivered. Your own maximum-charge setting for a run can stop delivery before maxResults is reached — the run report records exactly how many records were dropped for that reason, so you are never silently short-changed.

Notes and limits

• USASpending reports prime contract awards. Subcontract data is separate and not included here.
• Award records are reported by agencies with a lag; very recent awards may appear days after the obligation date.
• Contact details are not part of the federal award record. Leads carry the company's UEI, legal name and address, which are what you need to match against your own CRM or an enrichment provider.
• Grants and loans use different award-type codes and a different record shape; they are not included.

Source

USASpending.gov API — api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/. Public domain US government data.

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