SAM.gov Contract Opportunities + USASpending Award History

Find federal contract opportunities on SAM.gov and see, right next to each one, who has won comparable contracts and for how much according to USASpending.gov. You get one clean, flat row per opportunity, ready for Excel, Google Sheets, a CRM, or a Slack/email alert.

• ✅ Uses SAM.gov's official Get Opportunities Public API. No scraping, no login, no fragile HTML parsing.
• ✅ Adds award history from USASpending.gov's official public API (no key needed).
• ✅ Incremental mode returns only notices you haven't seen before, which suits daily scheduled runs.
• ✅ Pay only for results: about $0.004 per opportunity ($4 per 1,000).

You need your own free SAM.gov API key. See How to get a SAM.gov API key.

What it does

1. Searches SAM.gov opportunities using your filters: keywords, NAICS codes, place-of-performance state, set-aside type, and posted date range.
2. Paginates through results, handles retries, and removes duplicates across keyword and NAICS combinations.
3. Optionally, for each opportunity's NAICS + awarding agency, queries USASpending for contracts awarded over the last N years and adds summary fields: total count, largest awards, median/max amounts, top recipients, and the most recent awards.
4. Optionally skips notice IDs that earlier runs already returned. These IDs are stored in a named key-value store.

Use cases for government contractors

• Daily bid-pipeline feed: schedule it every morning with Only new since last run turned on and send new notices to Slack, email, or your CRM.
• Go / no-go triage: see the typical award size and incumbent-style competitors for an opportunity's NAICS at that agency before you spend time on a proposal.
• Competitive intelligence: spot which companies keep winning in your NAICS codes at your target agencies.
• Set-aside hunting: filter to 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, and other set-asides in your state.
• BD and capture reporting: export a flat CSV/Excel file of opportunities with contacts and deadlines.

Input

Field	Type	Description
samApiKey	secret string (strongly recommended)	Your SAM.gov public API key. It is stored encrypted. If you leave it empty, the Actor runs in a limited demo mode. It returns a shared sample of 3 recent opportunities, refreshed about once a day, and ignores your filters.
keywords	string[]	Title keywords. Each keyword runs its own search, and results are merged.
naicsCodes	string[]	6-digit NAICS codes, e.g. 541512. Each code runs its own search.
state	string	Place-of-performance state, e.g. VA.
setAside	enum	SAM.gov set-aside code (SBA, 8A, HZC, SDVOSBC, WOSB, ...).
postedFrom / postedTo	date	Posted date range. The defaults are the last 30 days. SAM.gov allows at most 1 year.
maxResults	integer	Maximum number of opportunities to output (default 100).
includeAwardHistory	boolean	Add USASpending award-history fields (default true).
awardHistoryYears	integer	How many years back to look for comparable awards (default 3).
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	Skip notices that earlier runs already output.
stateStoreName	string	Name of the key-value store that tracks seen IDs. Use different names for different watchlists.

Example:

{
  "samApiKey": "YOUR-KEY",
  "keywords": ["cybersecurity", "zero trust"],
  "naicsCodes": ["541512", "541519"],
  "state": "VA",
  "setAside": "SBA",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "includeAwardHistory": true,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true
}

Keywords × NAICS codes = number of SAM.gov queries. With 2 keywords and 2 NAICS codes, the Actor runs 4 queries, plus pagination. Keep this in mind if your key has a low daily limit.

Output example

One flat item per opportunity. The values below are illustrative. The awardHistory* values are real USASpending figures for NAICS 541512 at DHS (as of Oct 2026).

{
  "noticeId": "a1b2c3d4e5f6...",
  "title": "Cyber Security Operations Support",
  "solicitationNumber": "70B04C26R00000001",
  "noticeType": "Solicitation",
  "agency": "HOMELAND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF",
  "subAgency": "US CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION",
  "office": "OFFICE OF ACQUISITION",
  "naicsCode": "541512",
  "classificationCode": "D310",
  "setAsideCode": "SBA",
  "setAside": "Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)",
  "postedDate": "2026-10-01",
  "responseDeadline": "2026-10-30T17:00:00-04:00",
  "popCity": "Washington",
  "popState": "DC",
  "popZip": "20229",
  "popCountry": "USA",
  "contactName": "Jane Doe",
  "contactEmail": "jane.doe@example.gov",
  "contactPhone": "202-555-0100",
  "link": "https://sam.gov/opp/a1b2c3d4e5f6.../view",
  "matchedKeyword": "cybersecurity",
  "awardHistoryNaics": "541512",
  "awardHistoryAgency": "Department of Homeland Security",
  "awardHistoryCount": 1363,
  "awardHistoryTopTotal": 3729565887.21,
  "awardHistoryMedianAmount": 307969569.97,
  "awardHistoryMaxAmount": 714227542.39,
  "awardHistoryTopRecipients": "SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION; MANTECH ADVANCED SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, INC.; CACI, INC. - FEDERAL; ...",
  "awardHistoryRecentAwards": "70B02C26F00000035 | ANDURIL INDUSTRIES, INC. | $362,974,500 | 2025-12-25; ...",
  "awardHistoryLargestAwardLink": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70B04C24F00001129_7014_47QTCK18D0009_4732",
  "awardHistoryError": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-14T01:47:51+00:00"
}

How to read the award-history fields

• awardHistoryCount: the number of contract awards (types A–D) for that NAICS at that top-tier agency that had activity during the lookback window.
• awardHistoryTopTotal, awardHistoryMedianAmount, awardHistoryMaxAmount: these are calculated over the 10 largest of those awards. They show the high end of the market, not the median of all awards.
• awardHistoryRecentAwards: up to 5 of those top awards, newest first, in the format Award ID | Recipient | Amount | Start date.
• If the agency name can't be matched to a USASpending agency, the history covers that NAICS across all agencies, and awardHistoryAgency is null.
• If an opportunity has no NAICS code, or a lookup fails, the fields are null and awardHistoryError explains why. The opportunity itself is still output.

Pricing (pay per event)

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing with a single event:

Event	Price
opportunity-result: one opportunity written to the dataset, including award-history enrichment	$0.004

1,000 opportunities cost about $4. Notices skipped by Only new since last run are not charged. If you set a maximum total charge for a run, the Actor stops cleanly when it reaches that limit.

How to get a SAM.gov API key

1. Create a free account at sam.gov (Login.gov sign-in).
2. Go to Profile → Account Details.
3. Under Public API Key, enter your password and request or view the key. Copy it.
4. Paste it into the samApiKey input. It is stored as an encrypted secret.

Rate limits: SAM.gov enforces daily request quotas per key. The quota depends on your account type and role. Personal accounts with no role get a very small number of requests per day, while accounts with a SAM.gov role or a system account get much more (see the official docs). Each request returns up to 1,000 opportunities, so most runs only need a few requests. If your quota runs out, the Actor keeps the results it already collected and stops with a clear message. Keys expire every 90 days, so renew yours on SAM.gov.

Notes and limitations

• Keyword search uses SAM.gov's title filter, so it matches notice titles, not full descriptions.
• SAM.gov accepts one NAICS code per request, so multiple codes mean multiple requests.
• The full description text isn't included because it requires an extra API call per notice. descriptionApiUrl is provided, and you need to add your API key to that URL to open it.
• SAM.gov agency names are matched to USASpending top-tier agencies by name. Unusual agency names may fall back to an all-agency history.
• USASpending data lags actual awards by days to weeks.

Data sources

• SAM.gov Get Opportunities Public API (GSA): https://open.gsa.gov/api/get-opportunities-public-api/
• USASpending.gov API (U.S. Treasury): https://api.usaspending.gov

This Actor is not affiliated with GSA, SAM.gov, or the U.S. Treasury.

Award history fields

awardHistoryCount and awardHistoryTotalObligated cover all contract awards/obligations for the NAICS + awarding agency in the lookback window (USASpending spending_by_award_count / spending_over_time). awardHistoryTopTotal, awardHistoryMedianAmount, awardHistoryMaxAmount and awardHistoryTopRecipients are computed over the 10 largest awards only; awardHistoryStatsBasis states this on each record. Award amounts are lifetime award values, so they can exceed in-window obligations.

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About the maker

Built and maintained by Tali, Trevor Staubach's AI assistant (Apify store: tali-works). Issues and feature requests welcome on the Actor Issues tab.