Government Contract Signals — Federal Award Winners as B2B Leads

Government contract scraper & federal award lead finder — USASpending.gov contract winners as B2B leads with agencies, NAICS and first-time vendors.

A company that just won a federal contract has a confirmed budget. It will staff up, buy tooling, rent space and subcontract in the following months — on government money. This Actor reads the official USASpending.gov API (no key, no scraping, no anti-bot walls) and turns fresh federal awards into scored, outreach-ready lead records.

Why this beats SAM.gov scrapers

	This Actor	SAM.gov scrapers
Source	Official open-data API	Scraped HTML / gated API keys
Coverage	All federal awards (contracts + grants)	Mostly solicitations
Signal	Money already won = budget confirmed	Bids in progress = maybe
Reliability	Government JSON API	Breaks with site changes

What you get

Each contract_signal record:

• recipient — winning company (legal suffixes cleaned for outreach)
• amount, agency / sub_agency, naics_description (industry), place_state, description, award_url (official USASpending page)
• first_time_vendor 🔥 — this vendor has never appeared in your previous runs: a company entering the federal market is building capacity right now (new hires, new systems, new suppliers)
• contract_score 0–100 — freshness + amount + first-time vendor + kind
• hiring_check + composite_intent_score 🔥 — probes 7 ATS job boards: fresh federal money AND hiring = the hottest lead
• alert_text — ready-to-send Slack/Telegram line

Every run ends with a market_summary: totals, medians, top agencies/states/industries, first-time-vendor count.

Who buys this data

• B2B sales: filter by NAICS/keywords (software, cybersecurity) → companies with fresh government revenue in your ICP
• Subcontractors & staffing: prime contractors who just won need subs and people — reach them the week the award lands
• Commercial real estate, insurance, equipment leasing: new award = expansion
• Grant consultants: awardKinds: ["grants"] → freshly funded organizations

Typical setup

daysBack: 7 + minAmount: 500000 + your NAICS/keywords, schedule weekly, outputMode: flat_leads → CSV-ready winner list into Google Sheets. Enable onlyNewAwards for a daily fresh-winners alert feed (state kept in your account; you pay only for new results).

FAQ

Is this legal? Yes — USASpending.gov is the U.S. government's official open-data portal, explicitly published for public use.

Why does first_time_vendor need a few runs? It compares against vendors seen in your previous runs — from the second run on it flags genuine newcomers.

Something broken? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — I respond within 1–2 business days.

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Part of the opensignals intent suite: ATS Hiring Signals · Job Board Monitor · Startup Funding Signals. Companies confirmed by two independent signals (money + hiring) close fastest.