# USAspending.gov Federal Contract Awards — official API, no logi (`pappy-dev/usaspending-awards`) Actor

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.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pappy-dev/usaspending-awards.md
- **Developed by:** [Backyard Tools](https://apify.com/pappy-dev) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 federal award record scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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

```json
{
  "targets": ["Lockheed Martin", "Booz Allen Hamilton"],
  "maxItems": 1000
}
```

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.

# Actor input Schema

## `targets` (type: `array`):

検索したい受注企業の名称（例: Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton）。部分一致で federal 調達契約（Contract）の実績を返す

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

1 run で取得する最大件数

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "targets": [
    "Lockheed Martin"
  ],
  "maxItems": 1000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `items` (type: `string`):

取得した各件（type=item）と、選択した分析の結果（type=analysis）

## `overview` (type: `string`):

件数・平均評点・期間・ネガティブ比率（下側信頼限界つき）

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "targets": [
        "Lockheed Martin"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pappy-dev/usaspending-awards").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "targets": ["Lockheed Martin"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pappy-dev/usaspending-awards").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "targets": [
    "Lockheed Martin"
  ]
}' |
apify call pappy-dev/usaspending-awards --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pappy-dev/usaspending-awards"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/E2JdTjhbcKawYYekv/builds/ZbuCm9ftwMalaqJI9/openapi.json