Federal Contract Award Scout

Federal Contract Award Scout is a focused USAspending scraper for federal contract leads, incumbent research, and recompete planning. It turns official U.S. contract award records into structured sales and competitor intelligence—no USAspending API key required.

The Actor searches recent contract activity, identifies the incumbent recipient, normalizes agency and industry fields, calculates days until the listed contract end date, and labels contract-ending signals. Results can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or consumed through the Apify API.

See the product overview or run the Actor on Apify.

What it is useful for

• Find companies winning federal work in your market.
• Track awards by keyword, NAICS code, agency, recipient, value, and activity date.
• Surface active contracts and contracts entering a renewal window.
• Build competitor lists without buying a proprietary federal-contract database.
• Feed structured award evidence into an AI agent, CRM, spreadsheet, or monitoring workflow.

Find federal contracts ending soon

Use activeOnly with endingWithinDays to narrow recent USAspending activity to contracts whose listed end date falls inside your research window. The output includes the incumbent, agency, total award value, NAICS and PSC fields, source award link, and a timing label such as ENDING_WITHIN_180_DAYS.

This is especially useful for:

• GovCon business development and capture teams researching possible recompetes.
• Small businesses identifying primes and potential teaming partners.
• Consultants building evidence-backed agency or competitor reports.
• Automation builders who need contract-only, LLM-ready JSON.

Award Scout is intentionally focused on contract awards and end-date signals. It is not a general grants, loans, or direct-payments scraper.

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["software", "cloud"],
  "naicsCodes": ["541511", "541512", "541519"],
  "agencies": ["Department of Veterans Affairs"],
  "minAwardAmount": 250000,
  "activeOnly": true,
  "endingWithinDays": 365,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "scanLimit": 2000
}

If dates are omitted, the Actor searches the latest 30 days of award activity. USAspending's activity date filter is not an end-date filter, so the Actor may scan more records than it saves when activeOnly or endingWithinDays is enabled.

Output fields

Every saved row includes:

• Award ID and direct USAspending source link
• Incumbent / recipient name and UEI
• Award value and an explicitly labeled annualized estimate
• Awarding and funding agencies
• Start date, end date, duration, and days until end
• Contract signal such as ENDING_WITHIN_90_DAYS
• NAICS and Product or Service Code details
• Place of performance, description, and source timestamp

estimatedAnnualizedAwardValue is a mathematical normalization of total award amount across the listed period. It is not a government forecast, a guaranteed annual payment, or a statement that a follow-on solicitation will occur.

Data source and limitations

Data comes from the official USAspending.gov API. The tool does not claim affiliation with the U.S. government.

• USAspending data can be corrected after publication and can contain missing or legacy fields.
• An award end date is a planning signal, not proof of an upcoming recompete.
• The API's activity period can include older awards modified during the selected period.
• Verify material sales decisions against the linked source record and SAM.gov.
• This is market-research software, not procurement, legal, or financial advice.

FAQ

Does this USAspending scraper require an API key?

No. The Actor reads the official public USAspending API without a USAspending API key. You run and pay for the Actor through Apify.

Can it identify possible federal contract recompetes?

It identifies active awards whose listed end date falls inside a chosen window. Treat that as an early research signal, not proof that a recompete or solicitation will occur. Confirm opportunities through SAM.gov, agency forecasts, and primary acquisition sources.

Can I search by NAICS code or agency?

Yes. Filter by keyword, NAICS prefix, exact top-level awarding agency, recipient name or UEI, award value, activity dates, active status, and days until the listed contract end date.

Can I schedule recurring federal award monitoring?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run the Actor daily or weekly, then send the dataset to a spreadsheet, CRM, webhook, or downstream agent workflow.

What formats can I export?

Apify datasets support JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, and API access.

Run locally

npm install
npm test
npm start

Local Actor output is written to the storage directory. Run npm run test:live for a small read-only check against the public API.