SAM.gov Federal Contract Opportunities Tracker 🇺🇸

Find US federal contracts to bid on — straight from SAM.gov, filtered to exactly what your business does.

Every federal contract opportunity — solicitations, presolicitations, sources-sought notices — is posted on SAM.gov. This Actor searches them by keyword, NAICS industry code, agency, state and set-aside, and returns clean, structured records with deadlines and contacts. Point it at what you sell, run it on a schedule, and never miss a bid.

Data comes from SAM.gov's official public API. Public procurement data — clean liability profile.

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What you can do with it

• 🎯 Never miss a bid — monitor new opportunities in your industry the day they post.
• 🏢 Feed a GovCon CRM / pipeline — structured opportunities with agency, deadline, contact.
• 🔔 Set-aside alerts — track 8(a), WOSB, SDVOSB, HUBZone, Total Small Business set-asides.
• 📊 Market research — what agencies are buying, in which NAICS, in which states.
• 🤝 Teaming & capture — spot sources-sought early to position before the solicitation drops.

Features

• ✅ Powerful filtering — keywords, NAICS codes, agency, state, set-aside, notice type.
• ✅ Clean structured output — title, agency, deadline, NAICS, set-aside, place of performance, point of contact, direct SAM.gov link.
• ✅ Active-only by default — focus on opportunities still open for response.
• ✅ Schedule-friendly — small lookback window for a daily new-opportunities feed.
• ✅ Low-maintenance — official REST/JSON API, no scraping, no browser.

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🔑 Getting your free SAM.gov API key (required)

SAM.gov requires a free API key tied to your account:

1. Go to sam.gov and sign in (create a free account if needed).
2. Open Account Details (top-right profile menu).
3. Scroll to API Key and generate / copy it.
4. Paste it into the SAM.gov API key field of this Actor.

Your key is only ever sent to api.sam.gov. Note: SAM.gov rate-limits keys by account role (personal keys have a daily request quota).

Input

Field	Description
SAM.gov API key	Your free key (required).
Keywords	Title search, e.g. cybersecurity, janitorial services.
Notice types	Solicitation, Combined, Presolicitation, Sources Sought, etc.
NAICS codes	Industry codes, e.g. 541512.
Place of performance state	Two-letter state code, e.g. VA.
Set-aside code	e.g. SBA, 8A, WOSB, SDVOSBC, HZC.
Agency / organization name	e.g. General Services Administration.
Lookback days	Days back by posted date (1–365).
Active opportunities only	Only currently-open notices.
Max results	Cap the number of results.

Example — open small-business IT solicitations, last 14 days

{
  "apiKey": "YOUR_SAM_GOV_KEY",
  "keywords": "information technology",
  "noticeTypes": ["o", "k", "p"],
  "naicsCodes": ["541512", "541519"],
  "setAsideCode": "SBA",
  "daysBack": 14,
  "activeOnly": true
}

Output

Each row is one opportunity:

{
  "notice_id": "abcdef1234567890",
  "title": "Enterprise Cybersecurity Support Services",
  "solicitation_number": "W1234-26-R-0001",
  "notice_type": "Solicitation",
  "base_type": "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation",
  "department": "DEPT OF DEFENSE / DEPT OF THE ARMY",
  "organization_type": "OFFICE",
  "posted_date": "2026-07-10",
  "response_deadline": "2026-08-01T17:00:00-04:00",
  "archive_date": "2026-08-16",
  "naics_code": "541512",
  "classification_code": "D310",
  "set_aside": "Total Small Business Set-Aside",
  "set_aside_code": "SBA",
  "active": "Yes",
  "pop_city": "Fort Belvoir",
  "pop_state": "Virginia",
  "pop_country": "United States",
  "pop_zip": "22060",
  "contact_name": "Jane Smith",
  "contact_email": "jane.smith@army.mil",
  "contact_phone": "703-555-0100",
  "award_number": "",
  "award_amount": "",
  "award_date": "",
  "awardee_name": "",
  "description_link": "https://api.sam.gov/opportunities/v1/noticedesc?noticeid=abcdef1234567890",
  "ui_link": "https://sam.gov/opp/abcdef1234567890/view"
}

Run it on a schedule

Set the Actor to run daily with a short lookback (daysBack = 2) to get a feed of newly posted opportunities in your industry. Connect a Slack / email / webhook / Google Sheets integration to route new bids straight to your capture team.

Notes & limitations

• Requires a free SAM.gov API key (each user supplies their own).
• The posted-date range is limited to 1 year per SAM.gov's API.
• description_link points to the full notice description (also requires an API key to fetch); ui_link opens the opportunity on SAM.gov.
• Award fields are only populated for award notices.
• This is factual public procurement data.

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