Grant, RFP & Procurement Opportunity Monitor

Find grant, RFP, procurement, and funding opportunities across public sources without checking five sites by hand. This Actor searches Grants.gov, World Bank procurement notices, optional SAM.gov opportunities, and Google News RSS, then returns one scored dataset of opportunities worth reviewing.

Use it for government-contracting business development, nonprofit grant research, university funding searches, agency market monitoring, and scheduled opportunity alerts.

What does this Actor do?

RFP & Grant Opportunity Monitor takes your keywords and business profile, checks public opportunity sources, removes duplicates, and ranks the results. Each row includes source links, agency names, deadlines, summaries, matched keywords, fit score, and contact details when the source provides them.

It is meant for recurring monitoring. Start with a small keyword set, confirm that the matches look useful, then schedule the Actor daily or weekly and send new results to email, Slack, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, or your CRM.

What data can you extract?

Field	Description
source	Grants.gov, World Bank, SAM.gov, or news signal
title	Opportunity or article title
agency	Funding agency, buyer, or publisher
deadline	Submission or response deadline when available
opportunityType	Grant, procurement notice, SAM notice, or news signal
sourceUrl	Link to the original record
summary	Short description from the public source
fitScore	Relevance score based on your keywords and business profile
matchedKeywords	Terms that matched this record
contacts	Public contact fields when listed by the source

Results are saved to the default Apify dataset and can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML table.

Quick start

1. Open the Actor and click Try for free.
2. Enter 3-10 specific keywords, such as cybersecurity, SBIR, data platform, or workforce training.
3. Add a short business profile describing what you sell or what kind of funding you need.
4. Keep maxResults low for the first run, for example 25.
5. Review the fit scores and matched keywords before scheduling larger runs.

For SAM.gov results, add your own SAM.gov public API key and include sam in the sources input. Grants.gov, World Bank, and news searches do not require an API key.

Input example

{
  "keywords": ["cybersecurity", "AI workforce", "data platform"],
  "businessProfile": "We build cybersecurity, AI, data engineering, and software modernization systems for public sector and research organizations.",
  "sources": ["grants", "worldbank", "news"],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "daysBack": 30,
  "minScore": 20,
  "includeDetails": true
}

SAM.gov example:

{
  "keywords": ["zero trust", "cloud migration"],
  "sources": ["sam"],
  "samApiKey": "YOUR_SAM_GOV_API_KEY",
  "samNoticeTypes": ["o", "k", "p", "r"],
  "naicsCodes": ["541511", "541512"],
  "states": ["VA", "MD", "DC"],
  "maxResults": 25
}

Output example

{
  "source": "grants",
  "sourceId": "grants:361238",
  "searchKeyword": "cybersecurity",
  "title": "CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service",
  "agency": "U.S. National Science Foundation",
  "summary": "Government and the nation face a talent shortfall in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity...",
  "postedDate": "2026-02-04T05:00:00.000Z",
  "deadline": "2026-07-21T04:00:00.000Z",
  "opportunityType": "synopsis",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/361238",
  "contacts": [
    {
      "name": "U.S. National Science Foundation",
      "email": "grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov",
      "phone": "703-292-4203"
    }
  ],
  "fitScore": 63,
  "fitReasons": [
    "Matched search term: cybersecurity",
    "Matches business profile terms: artificial, intelligence, cybersecurity"
  ],
  "matchedKeywords": ["cybersecurity"],
  "urgency": "open",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-05-10T20:55:05.909Z"
}

The Actor also writes key-value outputs for scheduled workflows:

• RUN_SUMMARY: inputs, counts, source status, and errors
• FAILED_SOURCES: source errors to inspect before trusting a quiet run
• QUALIFIED_EXPORT: all emitted opportunity records
• BUYER_BRIEF: a short Markdown brief with highest-scoring opportunities
• SLACK_ALERTS: compact alert objects for webhook or chat workflows

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Dry-run examples are not charged. Apify free-plan users get the first 25 qualified opportunity records without this Actor's custom event charge; after that, normal pay-per-event pricing and the user's run spending limit apply.

Event	Price	What counts
qualified-opportunity	$0.005	One scored opportunity written to the dataset

That is $5 per 1,000 emitted records, plus normal Apify platform usage. Use maxResults and minScore to control cost. For the first run, start with maxResults: 25.

Tips for better results

• Use specific terms. cybersecurity training is usually better than tech.
• Keep the business profile short but concrete.
• Use minScore to filter broad searches.
• Treat Google News rows as early signals, not official solicitations.
• Schedule the Actor only after a manual sample run returns useful matches.

Limits and compliance

This Actor uses public, no-login sources and an optional user-supplied SAM.gov API key. It does not submit applications, send outreach, bypass paywalls, or access private procurement systems.

Always verify deadlines, eligibility, attachments, and submission instructions on the linked source before acting. News records are not official opportunities; they are leads for further checking.