Federal Contract Award Winners Feed (Unofficial): New Contract, IDV and Grant Wins

Reach companies the week they win federal money. This Actor returns newly reported federal awards, one row per award: the winning company (legal name, UEI, city and state), the amount, the agency, the industry (NAICS and PSC) and where the work happens. Run it on a schedule with New since last run and each run returns only wins you haven't seen. Every run also totals the awards per winner, and can add the subcontracts primes report.

Built for:

• B2B sales teams selling to new federal contractors: staffing and recruiting, equipment, software, insurance and bonding, accounting and compliance, invoice factoring and receivables lending. A company that just won a contract is about to hire, buy and finance.
• Subcontractors and teaming partners looking for primes that just won work in their NAICS or state.
• Market and competitor watchers tracking who wins in an agency or industry.
• AI agents and data teams. Clean JSON with no API key and no login.

What you get

For each new award:

• Winner: legal name as published, UEI, recipient profile link, city, state, ZIP, country
• Award: award ID, category (contract, IDV or grant), type, description (blanked when it looks like it names a person; see FAQ), amount, signed date, start and end dates (ordering deadline for IDVs), award link
• Buyer: awarding agency and sub-agency, funding agency and sub-agency
• Industry: NAICS and PSC codes with descriptions (contracts), assistance listing (grants)
• Place of performance: city, state, ZIP, country
• Winner totals in this run: number of awards and total amount per winner on every row, plus a one-entry-per-company roll-up (largest first) in the run's RECIPIENTS key-value store record, shown in the Output tab as Winners roll-up (JSON). Totals cover only the rows the run returned.
• Optional details (free): set-aside, extent competed, number of offers, parent vehicle, awarding office, parent company and the winner's business types (small, women-owned, veteran-owned, 8(a), HUBZone)
• Optional subcontracts (add-on): subcontractor, amount, date, prime contractor and prime award

Sample output

{
  "recordType": "award",
  "awardId": "47QTCA26F0101",
  "awardCategory": "contract",
  "awardType": "DELIVERY ORDER",
  "description": "CLOUD MIGRATION SUPPORT",
  "recipientName": "PEACHTREE DATA SYSTEMS LLC",
  "recipientUei": "PTDS1234ABCD",
  "recipientCity": "ATLANTA",
  "recipientState": "GA",
  "recipientZip": "30303",
  "awardingAgency": "General Services Administration",
  "awardingSubAgency": "Federal Acquisition Service",
  "naicsCode": "541512",
  "naicsDescription": "COMPUTER SYSTEMS DESIGN SERVICES",
  "pscCode": "DA01",
  "awardAmount": 1250000.0,
  "dateSigned": "2026-10-21",
  "startDate": "2026-10-21",
  "endDate": "2027-10-20",
  "popCity": "ARLINGTON",
  "popState": "VA",
  "recipientAwardsInRun": 2,
  "recipientAmountInRun": 1730000.0,
  "detailsIncluded": false,
  "source": "USAspending.gov (unofficial)"
}

(Illustrative example; field list abbreviated.)

Inputs

• What to fetch: the last N days (default 7), New since last run for a schedule, or a fixed date range of up to a year.
• Which awards count as new: awards signed in the window (default), or any award with an action in the window, which also catches option exercises and added funding.
• Award types: contracts (default), IDVs (new IDIQs, GWACs, schedules and BPAs) and grants. Grants are searched only among organizations (businesses, nonprofits, governments, schools and similar); contract, IDV and subcontract rows whose recipient name looks like a person's are dropped.
• Filters: NAICS and PSC codes (prefixes work), agencies and sub-agencies, the winner's state, place-of-performance state, winner business types, set-aside types, minimum and maximum amount, keywords (USAspending matches them against award descriptions and other award text, including recipient names).
• Add set-aside, competition and business types: one extra lookup per contract, no extra charge.
• Add subcontracts reported by primes: a paid add-on.

Quick start: keep the defaults (contracts of $100k or more signed in the last 7 days) or add your NAICS codes or the states you sell into, then click Start. Results appear in the New awards, Winner totals by award (one row per award with its winner's run totals) and Subawards tabs, newest first; the per-company roll-up is the Winners roll-up (JSON) output. For a recurring lead feed, choose New since last run, set Days to look back (30 for civilian agencies; 100 or more, with narrow filters, if you need Defense awards; see Limits) and schedule the Actor daily or weekly.

Pricing

Pay per event: you pay only for rows returned.

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Award returned	$0.0024	$0.002	$0.0018	$0.0016
Subaward returned (only with the subcontract add-on)	$0.0024	$0.002	$0.0018	$0.0016

That's $1.60–$2.40 per 1,000 awards, plus Apify's standard Actor start fee. Awards removed by your filters, awards already returned (in "New since last run"), rows dropped because the recipient name looks like a person's, and runs that fail are not charged. The details lookup and the winners roll-up are free. Set Max cost per run to cap spending; the Actor stops cleanly at the cap.

Integrations and API

Schedule it in Apify and send new winners to Google Sheets, Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, Make, Zapier or n8n through Apify's integrations, or call it from the Apify API. AI agents can use it through Apify's MCP server.

Limits

• Reporting lag. Civilian contract awards usually appear on USAspending within a few days. Department of Defense awards appear about 90 days after signing, and grants and subcontracts can take weeks. An award only comes through if it is signed inside your look-back window when it finally appears, so a 7- or 30-day look-back never returns most Defense awards. For Defense, use New since last run with a look-back of at least 100 days (up to 180) and narrow filters (NAICS, agency, state).
• Newest first, page limit. Each run reads awards newest first and at most Max pages to scan pages of 100 per award type, counting awards skipped because earlier runs returned them. With a long look-back and broad filters, older late-reported awards can sit beyond the page limit and be missed; the status message says when a run stopped at the page limit. Narrow the filters until it doesn't.
• NAICS, PSC and set-aside filters apply to contracts and IDVs only; grants have no NAICS or PSC.
• Agency names must match USAspending's spelling exactly.

FAQ

How is this different from an expiring-contracts radar? This feed looks backward: who just won. A recompete radar looks forward: which contracts are ending and who holds them now.

Are people's names included? The Actor is built to leave them out. It never outputs executive or officer names and pay, street addresses, phone numbers or email addresses. Grants are searched only among organization categories. Contract, IDV and subcontract rows whose recipient name looks like a person's name (no business word such as LLC, Inc, Corp, Co or Services) are dropped and not charged; the run summary says how many. Descriptions that look like they name a person (case captions such as "v." or "in re", honorifics such as Mr. or Dr., personal-services, staff, tuition, witness or fellowship awards) are blanked, and descriptionSuppressed is true on those rows. Winner names are otherwise the legal entity names as published, so a company name can contain a founder's name.

Why is a winner's address only city, state and ZIP? Many small businesses are registered at a home address, so the Actor never outputs street addresses.

What is a UEI? The Unique Entity ID from SAM.gov, the federal government's ID for every registered contractor. Use it to match winners to your CRM.

Does "New since last run" miss anything? It can. It remembers every award it returned under the cursor name for the length of your look-back window, so an award reported a few days or weeks late still comes through once, without duplicates. It misses awards reported later than your look-back (Defense awards arrive about 90 days late, so use 100 days or more for them) and, with broad filters, older awards beyond the page limit. See Limits.

Data source and responsible use

Data comes from the USAspending.gov public API (version 2), which needs no key. It is U.S. government data and in the public domain. The Actor identifies itself with a company name and contact email, keeps to a few requests per second, and stops if the API signals throttling. Output is limited to business-entity and award facts: recipients that look like individuals are dropped, descriptions that look like they name a person are blanked, no contact details, and addresses at city, state, ZIP and country level only. This is an unofficial tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by USAspending.gov, the U.S. Department of the Treasury or any federal agency. Award data is reported by agencies and can contain errors.

Support

Found a bug or need a field? Open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab and we'll respond there.

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