USAspending Federal Awards 🏛️

See every US federal contract, grant, loan and direct payment your competitors and targets win, filtered by agency, recipient, NAICS, keyword or state. No SAM.gov login, no API key, no scraping fragile pages. The data comes straight from the official USAspending.gov API, the government's own system of record for federal spending.

Run it once to pull a slice of federal awards, or turn on monitor mode and schedule it: every run then returns only the awards that are new since the last one, and can post a digest to Slack. Good for capture teams tracking an agency, prospectors watching a competitor, and analysts building a market picture.

What you get

One flat record per award, ready for a spreadsheet or CRM:

Field	What it is
awardId	The federal award / PIID identifier
recipientName	Company or organization that won the award
awardAmount	Award amount in US dollars (number)
awardType	Award type label where the API provides one (e.g. cooperative agreement)
awardingAgency	Top-tier awarding agency (e.g. Department of Defense)
awardingSubAgency	Awarding sub-agency (e.g. Department of the Army)
startDate	Period-of-performance start date
endDate	Period-of-performance end date
description	Award description text
naics	NAICS industry code (contracts only)
placeOfPerformanceState	Two-letter state where the work is performed
awardUrl	Link to the award detail page on usaspending.gov
changeType	new in monitor mode; null on one-off runs
retrievedAt	Timestamp of the run

Results come sorted by award amount, largest first, so the biggest wins are at the top.

Who uses it

• GovCon business development and capture teams tracking who is winning work at a target agency.
• Subcontractor prospectors looking for prime contractors to team with in their NAICS and state.
• Competitive-intelligence analysts building a picture of a competitor's federal book of business.
• Grant and nonprofit teams watching which organizations pull federal grant funding.

Input examples

Every example below validates against the input schema. Copy one into the input editor and adjust.

Track new Department of Defense IT contracts (NAICS 541511) from the last 30 days:

{
  "awardTypes": ["contracts"],
  "agencies": ["Department of Defense"],
  "naicsCodes": ["541511"],
  "lastNDays": 30,
  "maxResults": 200
}

Monitor awards to a specific company and get a Slack digest of new ones:

{
  "awardTypes": ["contracts", "grants"],
  "recipientSearch": ["Leidos"],
  "lastNDays": 90,
  "monitorMode": true,
  "webhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/your/webhook/url"
}

Pull every federal grant in a fiscal year for organizations matching a name:

{
  "awardTypes": ["grants"],
  "recipientSearch": ["Johns Hopkins"],
  "fiscalYear": 2025,
  "maxResults": 1000
}

Find cybersecurity awards performed in Virginia:

{
  "awardTypes": ["contracts"],
  "keywords": ["cybersecurity"],
  "placeOfPerformanceStates": ["VA"],
  "lastNDays": 180
}

FAQ

How do I track new federal contracts by agency?

Set awardTypes to ["contracts"], add the agency to agencies (spelled exactly as USAspending does, e.g. Department of Defense), and turn on monitorMode. Schedule the actor to run daily. The first run records a baseline, and every run after that returns only awards that appeared since the previous run. Add a webhookUrl to get each batch posted to Slack.

Can I monitor awards to a specific company?

Yes. Put one or more name terms in recipientSearch, for example ["Boeing"] or ["Leidos", "SAIC"]. Combine it with monitorMode and a schedule to get alerted whenever that company wins something new. You can scope further by award type, agency, NAICS or state.

Is USAspending data free?

The underlying USAspending.gov data is public and free, and this actor needs no API key or SAM.gov account. You pay only for the awards this actor delivers to you: the events below cover the platform compute for running, paginating and formatting the data into clean records.

How is this different from SAM.gov?

SAM.gov lists opportunities: solicitations agencies are still deciding on. USAspending is the record of awards that have already been made, including who won and for how much. This actor reads awarded spending, so it answers "who is winning this work" rather than "what is up for bid". If you want European or French public tenders instead, see the sibling French Public Tenders actor.

What award types are covered?

Contracts (codes A/B/C/D), grants (02/03/04/05), loans (07/08), direct payments (06/10) and other (09/11). Pick any combination in awardTypes.

How far back can I go?

The API supports action dates back to 2007-10-01. Use lastNDays for a rolling window or fiscalYear for a full US federal fiscal year (October through September).

Pricing

Pay per result, plus a tiny start fee. Misses are free.

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.00005
Award found (per award delivered)	$0.002 ($2 per 1,000)
Digest sent (per Slack digest in monitor mode)	$0.03

More from this account

Built by tagadanar on Apify. If you like this, the same account publishes sibling monitors: the ClinicalTrials.gov Monitor for drug and device trials, the SEC EDGAR Monitor for company filings, and French Public Tenders for EU and French bidding opportunities.

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