SAM.gov Contract Opportunities: Open Federal Bids, No API Key

Use this to find open US federal contract opportunities from the official SAM.gov public data extract, with no SAM.gov API key. Each row has the title, solicitation number, notice type, posted date, response deadline and days left, department / sub-tier / office, NAICS and PSC codes, set-aside, place of performance, contracting officer name, email and phone, and for award notices the awardee and amount. Filter by keyword, NAICS, PSC, set-aside, notice type, agency, state and days to deadline. $0.0015 per notice.

No scraping of the SAM.gov search site and no API key: the data comes from GSA's public "Contract Opportunities" data extract on SAM.gov Data Services (also listed on data.gov), refreshed daily. The file is sorted newest first, so a 7-day run reads only the newest slice and finishes in seconds.

• 🏛️ Solicitations, combined synopsis/solicitations, presolicitations, sources sought, special notices and award notices
• ⏰ Deadline and days left on every row, plus a By deadline sheet (soonest first); open-only by default
• 🎯 NAICS and PSC prefix filters, set-asides (SBA, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, EDWOSB...), agency, state and keyword filters
• 👤 Contracting officer contacts (name, email, phone) as published on the notice
• 🏆 Award notices with awardee and amount: teaming and subcontracting leads, and who is winning in your NAICS
• 💸 $0.0015 per notice; runs with no matches are free

Who it's for

• Small businesses and GovCon BD teams: a daily list of new bids in your NAICS codes and set-aside categories
• Proposal writers, GovCon consultants and Fiverr / Upwork researchers: client-ready opportunity reports in minutes
• Subcontractors and suppliers: award notices show which primes just won work you can support
• Market researchers: what agencies are buying, by NAICS, PSC, set-aside and state

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Set Posted in the last N days (or a date range).
3. Add NAICS codes, PSC codes, set-asides, notice types, agencies, states or keywords.
4. Click Start. Download SAM_XLSX or SAM_CSV from Storage → Key-value store.

Input example

{
  "daysBack": 7,
  "naicsCodes": ["5415"],
  "setAsides": ["SBA", "SDVOSBC", "8A"],
  "noticeTypes": ["Solicitation", "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation", "Sources Sought"],
  "minDaysToDeadline": 5
}

Task examples

• Daily IT bids for small businesses: {"daysBack": 1, "naicsCodes": ["5415"], "setAsides": ["SBA"]} on a daily schedule
• Janitorial and facilities work in Arizona: {"daysBack": 14, "naicsCodes": ["561720", "561210"], "states": ["AZ"]}
• Sources sought to shape requirements early: {"daysBack": 14, "noticeTypes": ["Sources Sought"], "keywords": ["cybersecurity", "zero trust"]}
• VA SDVOSB set-asides: {"daysBack": 7, "agencies": ["veterans affairs"], "setAsides": ["SDVOSBC", "VSA"]}
• Who won construction awards this week: {"daysBack": 7, "noticeTypes": ["Award Notice"], "naicsCodes": ["2362", "2382"]}

Output example

{
  "noticeId": "1f94236c982c498ab6f090876fb3fdb7",
  "title": "Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Readiness and Validation Status",
  "solicitationNumber": "1106202612072026",
  "noticeType": "Sources Sought",
  "postedDate": "2026-11-09",
  "responseDeadline": "2026-12-07T23:59:00-05:00",
  "daysToDeadline": 27.6,
  "department": "GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION",
  "subTier": "FEDERAL ACQUISITION SERVICE",
  "office": "FC ACQUISITION SOLUTIONS DEV/IDV ACQ MANAGEMENT",
  "naicsCode": "541519",
  "setAsideCode": null,
  "popCity": "Washington",
  "popState": "DC",
  "contactName": "Vivian Panagakis",
  "contactEmail": "innovationiwm@gsa.gov",
  "samUrl": "https://sam.gov/opp/1f94236c982c498ab6f090876fb3fdb7/view",
  "agentSummary": "Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Readiness and Validation Status [1106202612072026]: Sources Sought; posted 2026-11-09; FEDERAL ACQUISITION SERVICE; NAICS 541519; place Washington, DC; due 2026-12-07 (27.6 days left); contact Vivian Panagakis <innovationiwm@gsa.gov>."
}

This notice is a real public SAM.gov record from the public Contract Opportunities extract, retrieved 2026-11-10 (some fields left out here for length).

For AI agents

Use this Actor to answer "which open federal bids match NAICS X / set-aside Y / state Z, and when are they due?". Minimal input: {"daysBack": 3, "naicsCodes": ["5415"]}. Read agentSummary per notice (title, solicitation number, type, agency, NAICS, set-aside, deadline and days left or awardee and amount, contact) or the SUMMARY takeaway (counts by type, how many are due within 7 days, set-asides, top agencies).

• MCP: add this Actor to Claude, Cursor, Copilot or any MCP client through the Apify MCP server: https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=pandadad0214/sam-gov-opportunities, then ask in plain English.
• API: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/pandadad0214~sam-gov-opportunities/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN with the input JSON.
• Every row has an agentSummary line, and the SUMMARY record has a one-line takeaway plus nextSteps, so an agent can answer without parsing every field.
• Schedule it daily and connect Zapier, Make, n8n, Slack, Google Sheets or a webhook to the dataset for bid alerts.

Pricing

$0.0015 per notice returned (pay per event) plus Apify's tiny Actor-start fee of $0.00005. A daily alert with 20 matching notices costs $0.03; 1,000 notices cost $1.50. Runs that return nothing cost nothing, and failed source downloads are never charged. Set Maximum results or Apify's maximum charge per run to cap any run; the Actor stops at your limit.

Apify paid-plan discounts: Bronze members pay 10% less, Silver 20% less and Gold 30% less per notice; the discount applies automatically. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit to try it.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? GSA publishes the full list of active SAM.gov Contract Opportunities as a public CSV extract on SAM.gov Data Services (Contract Opportunities → datagov, also linked from data.gov), refreshed daily. The Actor streams that file; it does not log in to SAM.gov or call the key-gated Opportunities API.

How fresh is it? The extract is rebuilt once a day (overnight US time). Notices posted today usually appear the next morning. The SUMMARY shows the file's fileUpdated time.

Do I get attachments? No. Use the samUrl link to open the notice and download the solicitation documents on SAM.gov. Always confirm deadlines there before you bid.

What does Open only do? It drops notices whose response deadline has already passed. Notices without a deadline (award notices, many special notices) stay in the results; use At least N days to deadline to keep only biddable notices.

How is this different from Federal Contract Finder? Federal Contract Finder searches past awards on USAspending (incumbents, values, recompete dates). This Actor lists current SAM.gov notices you can respond to. Use both: find the recompete there, watch for the solicitation here.

Can I contact the people listed? These are the contracting officers named on public notices for questions about that notice. Follow each notice's instructions and the usual rules for business email.

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Built by Panda Federation. Questions or a custom version? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.

Changelog

• 2026-11-10: First release (0.1.0): SAM.gov public Contract Opportunities extract (no API key), posted-date window streamed newest first, keyword / NAICS / PSC / set-aside / notice type / agency / state / deadline filters, open-only default, contracting contacts, award notices with awardee and amount, Excel and CSV (SAM_XLSX / SAM_CSV) with By deadline and Award notices sheets, agentSummary and SUMMARY takeaway, pay-per-event pricing with Bronze/Silver/Gold discounts.