# SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Scraper – RFPs, Bids & Contacts (`prospect_antechamber/sam-gov-contract-opportunities`) Actor

Pull live US federal bids from SAM.gov: solicitations, RFPs, sources sought, awards. Filter by keyword, NAICS, set-aside, notice type, deadline. Get contracting officer emails, NAICS, set-aside and days left to respond. No login, no API key. $2.50 per 1,000 opportunities.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/prospect_antechamber/sam-gov-contract-opportunities.md
- **Developed by:** [Nidhi Karuturi](https://apify.com/prospect_antechamber) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 opportunities

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Scraper – Federal RFPs, Bids & Contracting Officer Emails

Every day, US federal agencies post **1,000+ new contract notices** on SAM.gov. Most small contractors only see the few that land in their inbox. The rest go to whoever checked SAM.gov first.

This Actor pulls those notices for you as clean JSON, CSV or Excel: **solicitations, RFPs, RFQs, sources sought, presolicitations and award notices**, with the **contracting officer's email**, NAICS code, set-aside, place of performance and **days left to respond**.

**Test run on 28 Oct 2026:** one day of notices returned **1,000 opportunities in under a minute**. 997 had a contact email, 963 had NAICS codes and 390 had a small-business set-aside (WOSB, SDVOSB, 8(a), HUBZone and others).

No SAM.gov account, no API key, no cookies, no proxies.

### What one row looks like

```json
{
  "title": "Corrective and Preventative Maintenance of Electronic Security Systems at the Ronald Reagan Building",
  "noticeType": "Solicitation",
  "solicitationNumber": "70RFP226QEC000005",
  "department": "HOMELAND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF",
  "subTier": "OFFICE OF PROCUREMENT OPERATIONS",
  "office": "FPS EAST CCG DIV 2 ACQ DIV",
  "postedDate": "2026-10-28T12:40:25+00:00",
  "responseDeadline": "2026-11-13T13:00:00-05:00",
  "daysUntilDeadline": 16,
  "setAside": "WOSB",
  "naicsCodes": ["561621"],
  "pscCode": "J063",
  "placeOfPerformance": "Washington, DC, USA",
  "contactEmails": ["christopher.kelly@fps.dhs.gov", "frank.borelli@fps.dhs.gov"],
  "pointsOfContact": [{"type": "primary", "fullName": "...", "email": "...", "phone": "..."}],
  "descriptionText": "Full notice text, up to 4,000 characters...",
  "url": "https://sam.gov/opp/a1c2de6b4ae141e2ae19e3553e3b7df8/view"
}
```

### Who uses it

- **Small federal contractors and 8(a), WOSB, SDVOSB and HUBZone firms**: get every new bid in your NAICS codes each morning, before the response window shrinks.
- **GovCon consultants and proposal writers**: build a pipeline of bids to pitch to your clients.
- **BD and capture teams**: track sources sought and presolicitations early, while the requirement is still being shaped.
- **Sales teams selling to contractors**: award notices tell you who just won money.
- **AI agents**: works as a tool through Apify MCP. Ask "find open cybersecurity solicitations with a WOSB set-aside closing in more than 10 days".

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `keywords` | Each keyword runs its own SAM.gov search (e.g. `cybersecurity`, `janitorial`, `"software development"`). Empty = newest notices. |
| `naicsCodes` | e.g. `541512`, `561720`, `236220` |
| `noticeTypes` | Solicitation, Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, Presolicitation, Sources Sought, Special Notice, Award, J\&A, and more |
| `setAside` | Total Small Business, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, EDWOSB, VOSB and more |
| `postedWithinDays` | Default 7. Use `1` on a daily schedule to get only new notices. |
| `excludePastDeadline` | Default on: drops notices you can no longer respond to |
| `minDaysUntilDeadline` | Skip bids closing too soon to write a proposal |
| `placeOfPerformanceStates` | e.g. `VA`, `TX` |
| `includeDetails` | Default on: NAICS, set-aside, contacts and full text from each notice's detail record |
| `maxItems` | Hard cap on rows (and on cost) |

### Daily bid alert in 2 minutes

1. Set your keywords or NAICS codes and `postedWithinDays: 1`.
2. Add a **Schedule** (daily, 8 AM).
3. Connect the dataset to **Google Sheets, Slack, email or a webhook** with Apify integrations.

### Pricing

**$2.50 per 1,000 opportunities** (pay per result) plus a small platform usage fee. A full day of new federal notices (about 1,000) costs about $2.50. You set `maxItems`, so you never pay for more rows than you asked for.

### FAQ

**Is this official data?** Yes. It reads the same public search that powers sam.gov. We are not affiliated with SAM.gov or GSA.

**Do I need a SAM.gov API key?** No.

**Why do some rows have no NAICS or set-aside?** The agency left them blank on the notice. Special notices and award notices often skip them.

**Can I get attachments?** The `url` opens the notice, where attachments are listed. Notice text is included in `descriptionText`.

Related: [FMCSA New Carrier Leads](https://apify.com/prospect_antechamber/fmcsa-new-carrier-leads) · [PDUFA & FDA Catalyst Calendar](https://apify.com/prospect_antechamber/pdufa-fda-catalyst-calendar)

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Each keyword runs its own SAM.gov search, e.g. cybersecurity, janitorial, "software development". Leave empty for the newest notices.

## `naicsCodes` (type: `array`):

e.g. 541512 (computer systems design), 561720 (janitorial), 236220 (commercial construction).

## `noticeTypes` (type: `array`):

Leave empty for all.

## `setAside` (type: `string`):

Only notices with this set-aside.

## `postedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

0 = any date. Use 1 on a daily schedule to get only new notices.

## `minDaysUntilDeadline` (type: `integer`):

Skip bids closing sooner than this (0 = no filter).

## `excludePastDeadline` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only notices you can still respond to (notices with no deadline are kept).

## `placeOfPerformanceStates` (type: `array`):

Two-letter codes, e.g. VA, TX. Needs details on.

## `activeOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Skip archived and inactive notices.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch each notice's detail page for NAICS, set-aside, points of contact and full description. Slower but richer.

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

Stop after this many rows (you pay per row).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "cybersecurity"
  ],
  "setAside": "",
  "postedWithinDays": 7,
  "minDaysUntilDeadline": 0,
  "excludePastDeadline": true,
  "activeOnly": true,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per federal contract opportunity.

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "cybersecurity"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("prospect_antechamber/sam-gov-contract-opportunities").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 = { "keywords": ["cybersecurity"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("prospect_antechamber/sam-gov-contract-opportunities").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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "cybersecurity"
  ]
}' |
apify call prospect_antechamber/sam-gov-contract-opportunities --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,prospect_antechamber/sam-gov-contract-opportunities"
        }
    }
}
```

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/n904fn6hCP33KEFxV/builds/N4dPRrUJpENuJ44ZS/openapi.json