SAM.gov Contract Opportunities & New-Notice Alerts

Find US federal contract opportunities from SAM.gov by keyword, NAICS, PSC, set-aside, agency, notice type, state and posted date. Get clean, flat records you can download as JSON, CSV or Excel. You can also run it on a schedule and get only the notices that are new since your last run.

No SAM.gov account or API key is needed. The Actor reads SAM.gov's official public Contract Opportunities data extract, the bulk file the government publishes for reuse. It does not scrape the SAM.gov website.

What it does

• Downloads and streams the official SAM.gov Contract Opportunities extract and filters it on the fly. The extract has about 70,000 rows, one per notice version; after combining amendments and dropping archived notices, that's roughly 35,000 unique active solicitations.
• Returns one flat row per notice: notice ID, title, solicitation number, agency hierarchy, notice type, set-aside, NAICS, PSC, posted and response dates, place of performance, award details, a direct SAM.gov link and, optionally, the official government points of contact.
• Keeps only the latest version of each solicitation by default, so you don't get five rows for one solicitation and its amendments.
• Monitoring mode remembers what it has already returned (in a named key-value store), so a daily schedule gives you only new or updated notices. The first run builds a baseline and returns nothing, and matches that don't fit in maxResults are kept for the next run instead of being dropped. That makes it easy to feed email, Slack, a CRM or Google Sheets through Apify integrations.
• If SAM.gov hasn't published a new extract since your last monitoring run, the Actor exits in seconds without downloading anything.

Who it is for

• Small businesses and GovCon BD teams: a daily list of new solicitations in your NAICS codes and set-aside categories (8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, HUBZone and others).
• Capture managers and proposal writers: track specific agencies, offices or keywords and see sources-sought and presolicitation notices early.
• Consultants and bid-matching services: pull filtered opportunity feeds for several clients, each with its own state key.
• Analysts and researchers: export notices, award notices and award amounts for market research.

How to use

1. Open the Actor's input, then pick your filters: keywords, NAICS codes, set-asides, agencies, states and notice types.
2. Click Start. Results appear in the Output tab, and you can download them as JSON, CSV or Excel.
3. For alerts, turn on Only new since last run, give the search a State key, and add a daily schedule. The first run only remembers the current notices; each later run returns what's new.
4. Optionally connect an integration (email, Slack, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, webhook) to receive each day's results automatically.

Input

All inputs are optional. Called through the API with an empty input, the Actor returns the 100 most recent notices posted in the last 30 days. The Console form pre-fills an example keyword.

Field	Description
keywords	Words or phrases to look for (case-insensitive).
keywordMode	any (default) or all keywords must appear.
searchIn	titleAndDescription (default) or title only (title and solicitation number).
excludeKeywords	Drop notices containing any of these.
naicsCodes	NAICS codes or prefixes, e.g. 541512 or 5415 (2–6 digits).
pscCodes	Product/Service Codes or prefixes, e.g. D3, R425.
setAsides	Set-aside codes: SBA, SBP, 8A, 8AN, HZC, HZS, SDVOSBC, SDVOSBS, WOSB, WOSBSS, EDWOSB, EDWOSBSS, VSA, VSS, ISBEE, IEE, BICiv, LAS, ESB, or NONE for unrestricted (NONE also matches notices with a blank set-aside, which is how most unrestricted notices are published).
agencies	Part of a department, sub-tier or office name (e.g. Veterans Affairs, Navy), or a CGAC/FPDS/AAC code.
noticeTypes	Solicitation, Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, Presolicitation, Sources Sought, Special Notice, Award Notice, Justification, Intent to Bundle, Sale of Surplus Property, Modification/Amendment/Cancel.
states	Two-letter place-of-performance state codes, e.g. VA, MD, DC.
stateFallbackToOffice	Many notices leave place of performance blank. When on (default), the contracting office's state is used instead.
postedWithinDays	Only notices posted in the last N days (default 30; 0 = everything in the extract). Ignored when postedFrom is set.
postedFrom / postedTo	Exact posted-date range (YYYY-MM-DD).
onlyOpen	Skip notices whose response deadline has passed. A date-only deadline counts as open through the end of that day (US Eastern).
excludeArchived	Skip notices whose archive date has passed (default on).
onlyNew	Monitoring mode: return only notices not returned by a previous run with the same state key.
includeUpdates	In monitoring mode, also return new amendments of solicitations you've already seen (marked changeType: "updated"). Default on.
baselineOnFirstRun	Default on. In monitoring mode, the first run (or the first run after you change the filters) only remembers the current notices and returns nothing, so you pay only the run start. Turn it off to receive, and pay for, the current backlog on the first run.
stateKey	Name for this monitor's memory (e.g. client-a-cyber). Leave empty to derive one from your filters. Use one key per saved search.
stateStoreName	Named key-value store that holds monitor memory. Default samgov-opportunities-state.
maxResults	Maximum notices to return per run, 1–100,000 (default 100). In monitoring mode, extra matches are returned by the next run.
latestVersionOnly	Return only the newest version of each solicitation (default on). Versions are grouped by solicitation number, so if a solicitation has since been followed by an award or special notice, only that newest notice is considered.
includeContacts	Default off. Include the official government points of contact (name, email, phone) published on the notice. This is personal data; see below.
descriptionMaxLength	Truncate the description to this many characters (default 1000; 0 = omit).

Example inputs

Open cybersecurity opportunities for IT services firms:

{
  "keywords": ["cybersecurity", "zero trust"],
  "naicsCodes": ["5415"],
  "postedWithinDays": 14,
  "onlyOpen": true,
  "maxResults": 50
}

SDVOSB construction work in the Mid-Atlantic:

{
  "setAsides": ["SDVOSBC", "SDVOSBS"],
  "naicsCodes": ["2362", "2382"],
  "states": ["VA", "MD", "DC", "PA", "NC"],
  "noticeTypes": ["Solicitation", "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation", "Presolicitation"]
}

A daily VA alert (schedule this once a day; the first run builds the baseline):

{
  "agencies": ["Veterans Affairs"],
  "noticeTypes": ["Solicitation", "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation", "Presolicitation", "Sources Sought"],
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "va-alerts"
}

Output

Each dataset item is one notice. Example with includeContacts: true (contact details replaced with placeholders):

{
  "noticeId": "56ec6168eb9f4624a42acc9bc047233a",
  "title": "Cyber Security Engineering and Risk Management Framework Support",
  "solicitationNumber": "W91CRB-26-B-A006",
  "noticeType": "Presolicitation",
  "department": "DEPT OF DEFENSE",
  "subTier": "DEPT OF THE ARMY",
  "office": "W6QK ACC-APG",
  "postedDate": "2026-10-20T14:21:41-04:00",
  "responseDeadline": "2026-10-22T17:00:00-04:00",
  "setAsideCode": "8A",
  "setAside": "8(a) Set-Aside (FAR 19.8)",
  "naicsCode": "541519",
  "pscCode": "DJ01",
  "popCity": "Aberdeen Proving Ground",
  "popState": "MD",
  "popZip": "21005",
  "popCountry": "USA",
  "awardAmount": null,
  "awardee": null,
  "primaryContactName": "Contracting Officer name as published",
  "primaryContactEmail": "first.last.civ@army.mil",
  "primaryContactPhone": "520-000-0000",
  "url": "https://sam.gov/opp/56ec6168eb9f4624a42acc9bc047233a/view",
  "description": "The is a DRAFT solicitation to gain insight and questions on the requirement…",
  "extractLastModified": "Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:30:45 GMT"
}

Other fields include baseNoticeType, cgac, fpdsCode, aacCode, archiveDate, archiveType, popStreetAddress, office city/state/zip/country, awardNumber, awardDate, awardeeRedacted, secondary contact fields, additionalInfoLink, and changeType (new or updated, in monitoring mode). The run's OUTPUT record in the default key-value store summarises the run: rows read, matches, megabytes read, whether the extract was unchanged, and so on.

Pricing

Pay per event, with no subscription:

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005 per run
Opportunity returned	$0.002 per notice ($2 per 1,000)
Deep scan	$0.05 per run, charged only when the date range you request starts more than 90 days ago (e.g. postedWithinDays: 91 or more, 0 for everything, or an old postedFrom). Never charged on baseline runs, incremental monitoring runs, or catch-up runs that deliver pending results.

A daily alert that returns 10 new notices costs about $0.025 a day. Baseline runs, and monitoring runs where SAM.gov hasn't published a new extract, cost only the start fee. Set a maximum cost per run in the Apify Console: the Actor reserves any deep-scan fee first, then stops returning results before it goes over.

How monitoring works

1. With onlyNew on, the Actor stores the IDs of notices it returned (and their solicitation groups) in the named key-value store under your stateKey.
2. First run: by default it records every current match as seen and returns nothing (a baseline), so alerts start with the next new notices.
3. Each later run skips anything already returned. A new amendment to a solicitation you've seen is returned as changeType: "updated" (turn off includeUpdates to skip those).
4. Each run normally reads only notices posted since the previous run, plus a 7-day safety margin, which keeps runs fast.
5. Nothing is dropped: if more notices match than maxResults (or your max charge) allows, the rest are marked pending and returned by the next run, even if SAM.gov hasn't published a new extract yet. The run log and status say so.
6. If the extract hasn't changed since the last run (same ETag) and nothing is pending, the run ends immediately.
7. Changing filters: the state remembers which filters it was built with. If you change them but keep the same stateKey, the next run starts over for the new filters (a fresh baseline by default). Notices you already received are still skipped. To keep separate alerts, use a separate stateKey for each.
8. Memory older than 400 days is pruned.

Data source, freshness and limitations

• Source: the official SAM.gov "Contract Opportunities" public data extract (ContractOpportunitiesFullCSV.csv), which SAM.gov publishes through its Data Services for public reuse. SAM.gov's terms of use prohibit scraping the website; this Actor doesn't do that.
• Freshness: SAM.gov regenerates the extract once a day (around 03:30 UTC). Notices posted during the day show up in the next day's extract. This is not a real-time feed. For same-hour alerts, use SAM.gov's own saved searches.
• Active notices only: the extract covers currently active notices, not the full historical archive. The extract and the live website can disagree briefly on notices archived or posted since the last regeneration.
• Place of performance is often blank on notices. See stateFallbackToOffice.
• Awardee names: SAM.gov's terms restrict Dun & Bradstreet data in entity records last updated before 4 April 2022. As a precaution, the Actor withholds the awardee on award notices dated before that cutoff (awardeeRedacted: true). This is a conservative approximation, not a guarantee that no D&B-sourced text remains.
• Personal data: with includeContacts on, the output contains names, work emails and phone numbers of government contracting staff, exactly as published on each notice. Contacts are off by default. If you turn them on, use them only to respond to the opportunity, not for marketing or bulk outreach, and handle them according to the data-protection rules that apply to you.
• If the extract's columns the Actor relies on go missing, or many rows have the wrong number of columns, the run fails with an error. Subtler format changes might not be detected, so check results against SAM.gov if something looks off.

FAQ

Do I need a SAM.gov account or API key? No.

Why didn't I get results for my state? Many notices have no place of performance. Keep stateFallbackToOffice on, widen the date range, or drop some filters.

Can I get attachments or full descriptions? The extract includes the description text (truncated by descriptionMaxLength). Attachments are on the notice page; use the url field.

Can I send alerts to email or Slack? Yes. Schedule the Actor daily with onlyNew on, then add an Apify integration (email, Slack, Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, webhook) on the dataset.

Disclaimer

This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. General Services Administration or SAM.gov. Data is provided as published by the government. Always confirm details, deadlines and amendments on SAM.gov before you bid.