SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Scraper and API

Find US federal contract opportunities on SAM.gov by NAICS code, set-aside, agency, state, deadline and keywords, and get one clean row per notice: solicitations, combined synopses, presolicitations, sources sought, special notices and award notices with the winner and the amount. Run it once for a market scan, or every morning on a schedule and get only the notices that are new or changed since the last run.

The data comes from SAM.gov's own public daily file of all active contract opportunities (the "Contract Opportunities" extract on sam.gov/data-services), not from scraping the website. No SAM.gov account, no API key, no proxy, no daily quota.

USD 1.00 per 1,000 notices + USD 0.005 per run. A daily monitor that finds 20 new notices costs about USD 0.025 a day.

Who it's for

• Small businesses and government contractors: a morning list of new bids in your NAICS codes and set-aside (8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, small business), with days left to respond.
• Capture managers and BD teams: watch target agencies and offices, export to a CRM, Slack or Google Sheets.
• GovCon consultants and proposal shops: one run per client, each with its own saved search.
• Market researchers and subcontractors: award notices with awardee, amount and date, filtered by agency, code and size.
• Developers and AI agents: a federal contract opportunities API with the same columns on every row.

What you get for each notice

Group	Fields
Notice	noticeId, title, solicitationNumber, noticeType, baseType, postedDate, postedDateTime (US Eastern time, as SAM.gov shows it), samUrl
Deadline	responseDeadline (as SAM.gov states it, with its time zone), responseDeadlineUtc, daysToDeadline, isOpen
Codes	naicsCode and naicsTitle, pscCode (product and service code) and pscTitle, setAsideCode, setAside, smallBusinessSetAside. Titles come from the official lists: Census NAICS 2022 (2017 for retired codes) and GSA's PSC manual (April 2025)
Buyer	department, subTier (agency), office, cgac, fpdsCode, aacCode, officeCity, officeState, officeZip, officeCountry
Place of performance	placeOfPerformanceStreet, placeOfPerformanceCity, placeOfPerformanceState, placeOfPerformanceZip, placeOfPerformanceCountry
Award	awardNumber, awardDate, awardAmount (a number in USD), awardAmountText (when SAM.gov's amount is not a plain number), awardee (company and address as SAM.gov lists it)
Text	description (first 1,000 characters by default, up to the full text), descriptionLength, descriptionTruncated, descriptionCutBySam
Status	active, archiveType, archiveDate (when SAM.gov will mark it inactive), changeType (monitor mode: new or changed), extractDate (the date of SAM.gov's file)
Contacts (option)	primary and secondary contact title, name, email, phone and fax

Three ready-made table views: Opportunities, For bidders and Awards. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or read the results through the Apify API.

Why this one

• It uses the route SAM.gov offers for this. SAM.gov's terms of use prohibit "Automated data gathering, web scraping tools" on the website and point to its APIs and data extracts instead. This Actor reads only the public extract, so it does not depend on the website's internal search, does not get blocked and does not need a proxy.
• Only new or changed since the last run. Turn on monitor mode, schedule it daily and each notice reaches you once; again only if its deadline, type, set-aside, award or text changes (marked changed). Unchanged notices are skipped and not billed. The memory is kept in your own Apify account.
• Every filter on the whole active list. NAICS and PSC codes by prefix, every set-aside code or "any small business", notice types, agency or office by name or code, place of performance and office state, posted and deadline windows, award amount range, awardee name, exact notice IDs and solicitation numbers, keywords with "exact phrases" and excluded words. No cap on how many notices are searched.
• Amended notices count too. A notice that was updated in your date window (deadline extended, amendment posted) comes back, not only notices first posted then: SAM.gov's file dates each notice by its latest version.
• Fast and cheap for daily runs. SAM.gov's file is sorted newest first, so "posted in the last 2 days" reads about the first 10 MB of the file and stops, instead of all 206 MB.
• Clean fields. NAICS and PSC titles next to the codes, deadline converted to UTC with days left, award amount as a number, set-aside codes made consistent (the file mixes SBA and ["SBA"]), public sam.gov links, no HTML.
• Privacy by default. The contracting officer contact columns (names, emails, phone numbers) are left out, and email addresses and phone numbers are masked wherever else they appear (descriptions, titles, street lines, awardee names). Names written inside a description's text are not removed. Turn on "Include contracting officer contacts" if you need the contacts to respond.

Input examples

New IT opportunities for small businesses, posted in the last 2 days, still open:

{
  "naicsCodes": ["541511", "541512", "541519"],
  "setAsides": ["ANY_SMALL_BUSINESS"],
  "postedWithinDays": 2,
  "openOnly": true
}

A daily monitor (schedule it once a day; only new or changed notices come back):

{
  "naicsCodes": ["2362", "2382"],
  "states": ["VA", "MD", "DC"],
  "noticeTypes": ["solicitation", "combined", "presolicitation", "sources_sought"],
  "postedWithinDays": 2,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "monitorName": "construction-dmv"
}

Large awards from one agency:

{
  "agencies": ["veterans affairs"],
  "noticeTypes": ["award"],
  "minAwardAmount": 1000000,
  "postedWithinDays": 30,
  "openOnly": false
}

Keywords: one search per line; words on a line must all appear; quotes for an exact phrase:

{
  "keywords": ["cybersecurity", "\"zero trust\"", "cloud migration"],
  "excludeKeywords": ["construction"],
  "deadlineWithinDays": 21
}

Filters

Input	What it does
keywords, excludeKeywords, searchDescription	Match in the title, and the description unless switched off. Words match from their start ("cyber" finds "cybersecurity"; "IT" does not match "with")
naicsCodes	2 to 6 digits, prefix match (5415 = all computer systems design codes)
pscCodes	1 to 4 characters, prefix match (D3 = IT and telecom services)
setAsides	SBA, SBP, 8A, 8AN, HZC, HZS, SDVOSBC, SDVOSBS, WOSB, WOSBSS, EDWOSB, EDWOSBSS, VSA, VSS, ISBEE, IEE, BICiv, LAS, ESB, NONE, or ANY_SMALL_BUSINESS
noticeTypes	solicitation, combined, presolicitation, sources_sought, special_notice, award, justification, modification, surplus, bundle
agencies	Words from the department, agency or office name, matched at word starts (army, veterans affairs), or an exact CGAC, FPDS or AAC code
states, officeStates	Place of performance state, contracting office state (2-letter codes)
postedWithinDays, postedFrom, postedTo	Posted (or last updated) dates; postedWithinDays: 1 = yesterday and today
openOnly	Drop notices whose response deadline has passed (default on; notices without a deadline are kept)
deadlineWithinDays, deadlineFrom, deadlineTo	Response deadline window (notices without a deadline are dropped)
minAwardAmount, maxAwardAmount, awardees	Award notices by amount and winner
noticeIds, solicitationNumbers	Exact lookups
maxResults	Stop after this many notices (default 1,000)
onlyNew, monitorName, includeChanged, firstRun	Monitor mode (see above). firstRun: "baseline" remembers what exists today and delivers nothing, so the next runs bring only new notices
descriptionMaxChars	0 to 32,003 characters of description (default 1,000)
includeContacts	Add contracting officer contacts and leave descriptions unmasked (default off)

All filters combine: a notice must pass every filter you fill in.

Pricing

Pay per event, nothing else:

Event	Price
Run start	USD 0.005 per run
Notice saved	USD 0.001 per notice (USD 1.00 per 1,000)

Unchanged notices skipped by monitor mode are not billed. Set "Maximum cost per run" on the run and the Actor stops by itself before it would go over, keeping every notice saved so far.

Use it through the API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/usefulapi~sam-gov-opportunities/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"naicsCodes":["541512"],"postedWithinDays":1,"setAsides":["ANY_SMALL_BUSINESS"]}'

It also works from the Apify MCP server for AI agents, from Make, Zapier and n8n, and with Apify's Slack, email and Google Sheets integrations on a schedule.

FAQ

Is this an official SAM.gov product? No. It is an independent tool that reads the public Contract Opportunities data file SAM.gov publishes for download. Always check the notice on SAM.gov (every row has its samUrl) before you bid.

How fresh is the data? SAM.gov rebuilds the file once a day, at about 03:30 UTC (11:30 pm US Eastern), so a notice posted today appears from tomorrow's file on. Each row carries extractDate. If you need notices within minutes of posting, this is not the tool.

Do I need a SAM.gov account or an API key? No.

What is the difference between noticeId and solicitationNumber? noticeId is SAM.gov's internal ID (the code in the sam.gov/opp/.../view link). solicitationNumber is the agency's number, which SAM.gov's page shows as "Notice ID". One solicitation can have several notices (presolicitation, solicitation, amendments, award).

Why are attachments missing? SAM.gov's public file does not list attachments. Open samUrl for the documents.

Why is placeOfPerformanceState often empty? About three quarters of notices do not state one. Filter by officeStates to widen a state search.

Why do some descriptions end early? SAM.gov's file stores at most 32,003 characters of a description; descriptionCutBySam is true on those rows. The full text is on the notice page.

Are archived (inactive) notices included? No. The file holds the notices that are active today, about 70,000, going back to older notices that are still open.

Does monitor mode work if I change my filters? Give the monitor a fixed monitorName. Without one, the name is made from your filters, so changing a filter starts a new memory (and the first run of it delivers everything that matches).

Limits

• Up to a day behind SAM.gov's website (see above).
• One run reads at most the whole file (about 206 MB, 71,000 notices on 17 Oct 2026) and saves up to 100,000 notices.
• Data is as SAM.gov publishes it: some notices have no NAICS code, no deadline or a place of performance outside the US.