SAM.gov Federal Contract Opportunities (Unofficial)

Unofficial tool. This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), SAM.gov or any U.S. government agency. "SAM.gov" is used only to identify the source of the public data file.

Get U.S. federal contract opportunities from SAM.gov as a spreadsheet or JSON feed. Pick a date window, filter by NAICS or PSC code, set-aside, state, agency, notice type and keywords, and download JSON, CSV or Excel. Each record has the posted date, the response deadline when one is published, the buying office, NAICS and PSC codes, the set-aside and a link to the full notice on SAM.gov. The data comes from the public daily extract file that GSA publishes, so you need no SAM.gov account and no API key.

Try it now: click Try for free, then Start. The prefilled input {"postedWithinDays": 2, "maxItems": 20} returns 20 notices posted in the last 2 days and costs at most $0.045.

Looking for a SAM.gov scraper? This Actor gives you the notice records without scraping SAM.gov pages. It reads the extract file from the newest notice backwards and stops at the end of your date window; in our test on 14 Nov 2026, a 90-day window took about a minute.

Who uses it

• Small businesses and BD teams: a daily list of new solicitations in your NAICS codes and set-asides (8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB), ready to triage before you open SAM.gov.
• Capture and proposal managers: deadline, agency, office and codes in one row per notice, sortable in Excel.
• GovCon consultants and market researchers: what each agency buys, by NAICS, PSC and state, over up to 90 days.
• Award trackers: award notices with number, date, amount and, for legal entities, the awardee name and state.

Sample SAM.gov results

Title	Notice type	Department	NAICS	PSC	Posted
FCC Yazoo City FY 2027 Q2 Food Service Subsistence Requirements	Combined Synopsis/Solicitation	JUSTICE, DEPARTMENT OF	311999	8945	2026-11-13
Y--EMERGENCY FLOOD PROTECTIONS	Award Notice	INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF THE	237990	Y1PZ	2026-11-13

Two rows from the extract file of 14 Nov 2026, shortened to six of about 30 fields. Contact names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers are not in the results; open samUrl to see them on SAM.gov.

What can this Actor do?

• Reads the public Contract Opportunities extract file (ContractOpportunitiesFullCSV.csv, about 220 MB) that GSA publishes on sam.gov/data-services.
• Reads the file from the newest notice backwards and stops as soon as it passes your date window. A 2-day window reads about 15 MB; a 90-day window about 125 MB of the 222 MB file (measured on 14 Nov 2026).
• Filters by notice type, NAICS prefix, PSC prefix, set-aside code, place-of-performance state, agency and keywords.
• Only new notices mode for daily or hourly schedules: each run skips notices that an earlier run already returned to you.
• Removes personal data: contact names, e-mail addresses, phone and fax numbers, street addresses and free-text descriptions are never returned.
• Checks the file before it saves or charges anything: the run fails at no cost to you when the file is empty or its header or first 200 rows do not have the expected layout.

What data can you extract?

One record per notice:

Field	Example	Description
noticeId	4c6bc11d…305e8e	Notice ID used by SAM.gov
samUrl	https://sam.gov/…/view	Link to the notice, as given in the file
title	FCC Yazoo City FY 2027 Q2 Food Service…	Notice title
solicitationNumber	111326	Solicitation number
noticeType, baseType	Combined Synopsis/Solicitation	Current and original notice type
postedAt	2026-11-13T11:46:20	Posted date and time as published (the file does not state a time zone)
responseDeadline	2026-12-04T12:00:00-06:00	Response deadline as published
archiveType, archiveDate	auto15, 2026-12-19	Archive rule and date
department, subTier, office	JUSTICE, DEPARTMENT OF	Buying organisation
cgac, fpdsCode, aacCode	015, 1540, 15B315	Agency codes
naicsCode, pscCode	311999, 8945	Industry and product/service codes
setAsideCode, setAside	SBA, Small Business Set Aside - Total	Set-aside
placeOfPerformance	{ city, state, zip, country }	Where the work is done (no street address)
officeLocation	{ city, state, zip, country }	Contracting office location
award	{ number, date, amountUsd, awardeeName, awardeeState, awardeeRedacted }	For award notices; see "Awardee names" below
source	{ name, fileLastModified }	Which extract file the record came from
collectedAt	2026-11-14T10:56:51.013Z	When the run started

Each run also stores a RUN_SUMMARY record (bytes read, rows scanned, notices saved, stop reason, file date) and an ATTRIBUTION record in its key-value store.

Awardee names

Award notices name the winning bidder. To avoid publishing data about private individuals, award.awardeeName is shown only when the name ends with a legal-entity suffix (INC, INCORPORATED, LLC, CORP, CORPORATION, LTD, LIMITED, LP, LLP, PLLC, PC), the text after it is an address, and the award is dated 4 April 2022 or later. Any doubtful case is hidden: names ending in "Co." or "Company" (also used by sole proprietors), suffix-like words that may be part of a place or street name ("University Park", "Corporation Way"), "doing business as" names, and names that contain a house number or a street word. Awardee addresses are never shown; for a shown awardee, only the U.S. state is kept. When a name is hidden, award.awardeeRedacted is true. On the extract file of 14 Nov 2026 (measured the same day), 91.6% of awardees on awards from 4 April 2022 onwards were shown.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free, set Posted within the last N days and any filters you need. Every field is optional.
2. Click Start. A typical run finishes in under a minute.
3. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the Apify API.

Daily alerts: create a Task with your filters, turn on Only notices not returned before, give it a State name (for example it-services-va), and add a Schedule (for example every day at 07:00 in your time zone). Each run then returns only notices you have not seen yet. Send the results onward with Apify integrations, for example Slack, e-mail, Zapier or Make.

How much does it cost?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing with exactly two events; nothing else is charged. Platform usage is included.

Event	Price
Run start, charged once per run after the source file passed the layout check	$0.005
Notice saved to your dataset	$0.002 ($2.00 per 1,000 notices)

Examples:

• 1,000 notices in one run: $0.005 + $2.00 = $2.005.
• A daily schedule that returns about 20 new notices: $0.045 per run, about $1.35 per month.
• A run whose filters match nothing: $0.005.

You can set a maximum cost per run; the Actor stops when it reaches it, and only notices that were actually saved count as returned. You pay nothing when the input is invalid, or when the source file is empty or its header or first 200 rows do not have the expected layout: the run fails before saving or charging anything. If the layout breaks later in the file, the run stops and you keep (and pay for) the notices saved before that point.

Input example

{
    "postedWithinDays": 7,
    "noticeTypes": ["Solicitation", "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation"],
    "naicsPrefixes": ["5415"],
    "setAsideCodes": ["SBA", "SDVOSBC"],
    "placeOfPerformanceStates": ["VA", "MD", "DC"],
    "keywords": ["cloud", "cybersecurity"],
    "keywordMode": "any",
    "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
    "stateName": "it-services-dmv",
    "maxItems": 500
}

Keywords are matched in the title and the description, but the description itself is not returned.

Output example

[
    {
        "noticeId": "4c6bc11dd46d475698e7c41798305e8e",
        "samUrl": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/4c6bc11dd46d475698e7c41798305e8e/view",
        "title": "FCC Yazoo City FY 2027 Q2 Food Service Subsistence Requirements",
        "solicitationNumber": "111326",
        "noticeType": "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation",
        "baseType": "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation",
        "postedAt": "2026-11-13T11:46:20",
        "responseDeadline": "2026-12-04T12:00:00-06:00",
        "archiveType": "auto15",
        "archiveDate": "2026-12-19",
        "active": true,
        "department": "JUSTICE, DEPARTMENT OF",
        "subTier": "FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM / BUREAU OF PRISONS",
        "office": "FCC YAZOO CITY",
        "cgac": "015",
        "fpdsCode": "1540",
        "aacCode": "15B315",
        "naicsCode": "311999",
        "pscCode": "8945",
        "setAsideCode": "SBA",
        "setAside": "Small Business Set Aside - Total",
        "placeOfPerformance": { "city": "Yazoo City", "state": "MS", "zip": "39194", "country": "USA" },
        "officeLocation": { "city": "YAZOO CITY", "state": "MS", "zip": "39194", "country": "USA" },
        "organizationType": "OFFICE",
        "award": null,
        "source": { "name": "SAM.gov Contract Opportunities public data extract (GSA)", "fileLastModified": "2026-11-14T04:30:20.000Z" },
        "collectedAt": "2026-11-14T10:56:51.013Z"
    },
    {
        "noticeId": "da72f57de09a4361af12db8503eafb4f",
        "title": "Y--EMERGENCY FLOOD PROTECTIONS",
        "noticeType": "Award Notice",
        "postedAt": "2026-11-13T19:11:20",
        "department": "INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF THE",
        "naicsCode": "237990",
        "pscCode": "Y1PZ",
        "award": {
            "number": "140GG027P0052",
            "date": "2026-11-13",
            "amountUsd": 390711,
            "awardeeName": "EXAMPLE CONSTRUCTION INC",
            "awardeeState": "WA",
            "awardeeRedacted": false
        },
        "...": "other fields as above"
    }
]

The awardee name in the second record is replaced by a placeholder in this README.

Limits and responsible use

• Source: only the public extract file. The Actor does not scrape SAM.gov pages, does not log in and does not use any SAM.gov API key. Each run requests one fresh download link and reads only the part of the file it needs.
• Freshness: GSA updates the file once a day (the 14 Nov 2026 file was last modified at 04:30 UTC). Notices posted on SAM.gov today usually appear in the next day's file. If you need notices within minutes of posting, this Actor is not the right tool.
• No attachments or descriptions: the file does not include attachments, and descriptions are left out because they often contain the names and phone numbers of contracting staff. Use samUrl to read the full notice.
• Active notices: on 14 Nov 2026 every row in the file was an active notice (72,204 rows, from 2008 to the previous day). Archived notices are not in this file.
• Polite access: the Actor identifies itself with its own User-Agent, uses no proxies and stops on HTTP 401, 403, 407 or 429 instead of retrying. Network errors and server errors are retried up to 3 times with a fresh link (after 10, 30 and 60 seconds).
• Window: up to 90 days and 50,000 notices per run. Memory is fixed at 1 GB.
• Interrupted runs: if Apify moves the run to another server or you abort it, the Actor finishes the batch it is saving, records it, and stops. A moved run is designed to continue where it left off without saving or charging any notice twice.

Data source

Source: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities public data extract (https://sam.gov/data-services), U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). This Actor only processes the public extract file. It does not scrape SAM.gov, does not log in and does not use any SAM.gov API key. Contact-person fields are removed. Awardee names are shown only for legal entities and only for awards dated on or after 4 April 2022; awardee addresses are never shown. Descriptions are not included in the results. Unofficial tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by GSA, SAM.gov or any U.S. government agency.

Data, licensing & privacy

• What this Actor returns: factual records from the public source listed in "Data source". Fields are limited to an allow-list; new source fields are not added automatically.
• No personal data: this Actor does not return names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, social profiles or other details of individual people. Records that describe a natural person are reduced to non-identifying fields.
• Source terms: the Actor uses only the access channel the source permits (the public bulk file) and stops when it meets a CAPTCHA, a login wall or a rate-limit response.
• Removal requests: if you believe a record concerns you personally, open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab with the notice ID. We aim to review requests within 72 hours and exclude confirmed records from future runs.
• Data is provided as is, without warranty. It is not legal, financial or investment advice.
• This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the data source owners.

FAQ

Is it legal to use this data? The Actor reads a bulk file that GSA publishes for public download and does not scrape SAM.gov pages. Most federal government works are not protected by copyright in the U.S. You are responsible for how you use the results; this is not legal advice.

Why did my run stop before reaching Max notices? Usually because it reached the end of your date window. Check stopReason in the RUN_SUMMARY record: date-cutoff (window finished), max-items, charge-limit (your maximum cost per run), or end-of-file.

Why did my run fail with "Source extract is empty or its format changed"? On some days the published file is empty or incomplete, or its columns change. The Actor checks the header and the first 200 rows before it saves or charges anything, so such a run costs you nothing. Try again a few hours later.

Why is there no contracting officer contact? Contact names, e-mails and phone numbers belong to individual people, so they are removed. Open the notice through samUrl to see them on SAM.gov.

Do two schedules with "Only notices not returned before" interfere? Not if they use different State name values. Two runs with the same state name cannot run at the same time; the second one stops with a clear message.

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Support

Open an issue on the Issues tab with your run ID. We aim to review issues and data-removal requests within 72 hours.