SAM.gov Contract Opportunities: New Federal Bids & RFPs Feed

Get new federal bids, RFPs, RFQs and sources-sought notices from SAM.gov, filtered to the work you actually do: keywords, NAICS, PSC, set-aside (small business, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB), place-of-performance state and agency. Each row has the response deadline, days left, set-aside, place of performance, the contracting officer's official contact and the SAM.gov link.

Built not to break. Most SAM.gov scrapers read the website, and when the site changes their runs fail. This actor reads the official public SAM.gov daily data file that the government publishes for download. It does not use a browser, a proxy or a login, and it needs no API key. A run usually finishes in 3 to 10 seconds.

Try it: press Try for free. The prefilled input finds janitorial and custodial bids from the last 3 days.

Who it is for

• Small businesses and contractors who want a daily list of bids they can win.
• Bid-finding services and consultants who track many clients' NAICS codes.
• Sales teams selling to federal contractors who want to see what agencies are buying.

What you get per bid

Field	Meaning
title, solicitation_number, notice_type	What is being bought and the notice type (Solicitation, Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, Presolicitation, Sources Sought, Award Notice...)
agency, sub_agency, office	Who is buying
posted_at, response_deadline, days_left	When it was posted and when offers are due (deadline in UTC ISO format)
naics_code, psc_code	Industry and product/service codes
set_aside, set_aside_code, set_aside_group	Who may bid: small business, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, none
place_of_performance	City, state, ZIP, country. A blank state is filled from the ZIP code
award	For award notices: number, date, amount and winning company
contacts	The contracting officer's official name, email and phone as published on SAM.gov
url	The notice on SAM.gov (attachments live there)
description	The notice text, trimmed to your chosen length

Amendments are folded. When a solicitation was amended several times in your window, you get one row with the latest version, not five near-duplicates. Turn off Fold amendments to see every notice.

Monitor mode: only new bids

Turn on Only new bids and schedule the actor daily with Posted in the last (days) set to 2. Each run returns only bids you have not received before with the same filters. Repeats are skipped and free, so a quiet day costs almost nothing.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.003 per bid delivered, plus Apify's tiny start fee ($0.00005 per run). For example, 100 bids cost $0.30.

• Runs with no matches cost only the start fee.
• Bids skipped as repeats in monitor mode are free.
• Folded older amendments are free.
• Cap your spend with Max bids (default 200, up to 10,000) and with the run's maximum cost setting. The actor stops cleanly when either limit is reached.

Input

{
  "postedWithinDays": 7,
  "keywords": ["janitorial", "custodial"],
  "setAsides": ["small_business"],
  "states": ["TX"],
  "naicsCodes": ["5617"],
  "onlyNew": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Field	Meaning
postedWithinDays	1 to 30, default 3
keywords / excludeKeywords	Match the title or the full description, any of the words
naicsCodes, pscCodes	Full codes or prefixes (2382 matches all 2382xx)
setAsides	small_business, 8a, hubzone, sdvosb, wosb, veteran, indian, local_area, none
states	Place-of-performance states, 2-letter codes
agencies	Part of the agency or office name, e.g. army, veterans affairs
noticeTypes	Default: open opportunity types. Add Award Notice to see winners
openOnly	Default on: skip inactive and past-deadline notices
onlyNew	Monitor mode (see above)
latestVersionOnly	Default on: fold amendments
descriptionMaxChars	Default 3,000; 0 = no description
maxItems	Default 200, maximum 10,000
samApiKey	Optional backup: your own SAM.gov API key. It is used only if the daily file is unavailable

Output example (real run, 30 October 2026)

Input: last 7 days, keywords janitorial/custodial, small-business set-aside. The run returned 4 solicitations from 6,411 notices scanned; 5 older amendments were folded.

{
  "source": "sam.gov",
  "notice_id": "f1a41de4640645379247d477040a1fb3",
  "title": "Janitorial Contract Eagle Pass, TX",
  "solicitation_number": "W9126G27QA003",
  "notice_type": "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation",
  "agency": "DEPT OF DEFENSE",
  "sub_agency": "DEPT OF THE ARMY",
  "office": "W076 ENDIST FT WORTH",
  "posted_at": "2026-10-30 12:05:06",
  "response_deadline": "2026-11-05T18:00:00.000Z",
  "days_left": 5,
  "naics_code": "561720",
  "psc_code": "S201",
  "set_aside_code": "SBA",
  "set_aside": "Small Business Set Aside - Total",
  "set_aside_group": "small_business",
  "place_of_performance": { "city": null, "state": "TX", "zip": "78852", "country": null },
  "active": true,
  "award": null,
  "contacts": [{ "role": "primary", "title": null, "name": "J. A.", "email": "j...@usace.army.mil", "phone": "(817) 886-...." }],
  "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f1a41de4640645379247d477040a1fb3/view",
  "description": "This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial services ... janitorial services to one (1) administrative office located in Eagle Pass, Texas ... set-aside for small business concerns."
}

The contact is shortened here; the actor returns the full official contact exactly as SAM.gov publishes it.

Data source and limits

• Source: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities public data extract (U.S. General Services Administration). It is rebuilt about once a day, so a notice posted this morning usually shows up by the next day's file. For minute-by-minute alerts, use SAM.gov's own saved searches.
• Coverage: federal opportunities only, not state or city bids.
• Attachments: attachments are on SAM.gov; follow the url.
• Contacts: the actor never adds personal data. Contacts are the government's official points of contact for the notice.

FAQ

Do I need a SAM.gov account or API key? No. The key field is only a backup.

Why not search the SAM.gov website? SAM.gov's terms forbid automated gathering from the website, and website scrapers break when the site changes. The daily file is the government's own bulk download, made for this.

Can I get award notices with winners? Yes. Add Award Notice to Notice types and turn off Only still-open bids.

Something looks wrong? Open an issue on this actor's Issues tab. A daily automatic feed check also runs on the author's side and logs any change SAM.gov makes to the file.

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