USAspending.gov Federal Contract Awards — official API, no logi
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$1.00 / 1,000 federal award record scrapeds
USAspending.gov Federal Contract Awards — official API, no logi
Look up any company's U.S. federal contract award history via the official USAspending.gov API: award ID, amount, awarding agency, period of performance, description. Official U.S. open spending data (OPEN Government Data Act), no login, no API key. Useful for GovCon market research.
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USAspending.gov Federal Contract Awards — official API, no login
Search any company's U.S. federal contract award history through USAspending.gov's own
official public API (api.usaspending.gov). No login, no API key, no proxies — this is the
same endpoint USAspending.gov's own search UI calls.
Official U.S. government open data: USAspending.gov is the government's official spending transparency site under the OPEN Government Data Act, which requires federal data to be released with "no restrictions on copying, publishing, distributing, transmitting, adapting, or otherwise using the information for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial" (source: OPEN Government Data Act / resources.data.gov open-licenses guidance, checked 2026-09-02). This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by USAspending.gov / the U.S. Treasury — it's an independent client of their public API.
Tested (2026-09-02)
| Search | Records found |
|---|---|
Lockheed Martin | 30 (capped by maxItems; thousands available) |
| a non-existent company name | 0 (no charge) |
Input
Each target is a company name (or part of one). Matches on USAspending's recipient search index. A name with no awards simply returns 0 items.
Output
One dataset item per contract award (sorted by award amount, largest first):
| Field | |
|---|---|
award_id | the federal award/contract ID |
recipient_name | registered recipient (company) name |
amount_usd | total award amount in USD |
awarding_agency | the federal agency that awarded the contract |
start_date / end_date | period of performance |
award_type | contract type code |
description | award description text (when provided by the agency) |
Scope: procurement contracts only (award types A/B/C/D — definitive contracts, purchase orders, delivery/task orders, BPA calls). Grants and other assistance awards to individuals are out of scope by design — this actor targets company-to-government contracting data only, not personal award recipients.
Why this over USAspending.gov's own site
USAspending.gov's search is built for one company, one query, in a browser. This actor takes a batch of company names and hands back structured rows — for GovCon competitive intelligence, market sizing, or feeding an analytics/LLM pipeline that needs this as data, not a web page.
Use Cases
- GovCon competitive intelligence — see which agencies, and how much, a competitor has been awarded
- Market sizing — aggregate award amounts across companies to size a federal contracting niche
- Lead generation — identify companies with a track record of specific award types for partnership or subcontracting outreach
- Contract-history due diligence — verify a vendor's award history before a subcontract or teaming decision
Pricing
Pay per event: $1.00 per 1,000 award records collected. Nothing else.
