USAspending Contract Awards Scraper & Monitor

Get a daily "who won what" feed of new US federal contract awards from USAspending.gov as JSON, CSV or Excel, and receive only the awards that are new since your last run. Built for small GovCon firms, BD and capture consultants, and anyone tracking competitors and teaming partners. No account or API key needed.

Why this Actor

• Official source. It calls the public USAspending.gov API (api.usaspending.gov, the spending_by_award search). No scraping of web pages, no login, no key. Not affiliated with or endorsed by USAspending.gov or the US government.
• Built for a daily "new awards" monitor. The Actor remembers which awards it already returned, separately for every distinct filter combination (in practice one per saved task, client or NAICS list). Put it on an Apify Schedule and each run returns only what is new.
• Handles late-loaded Department of Defense awards. By default (dateMode "published") it looks at awards added to or changed in USAspending in the last lookbackDays days and keeps those signed within the last maxAwardAgeDays days (default 180). DoD awards are published about 90 days after signing, so a feed based on signing date mostly misses them; the default mode returns them when they appear. See "Data lag and late-loaded awards".
• Filters that match how work is found. NAICS prefix, PSC prefix, awarding agency, recipient state, place-of-performance state, amount range and keywords.
• Pairs with the SAM.gov Actor (opportunities, then awards). Where the concepts overlap, inputs and output fields use the same names as the companion SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Scraper & Monitor, so open opportunities and past awards line up. See "See also".
• No contact fields. Only the recipient's name, Unique Entity ID and city, state and country are returned. No officer or contact fields are requested.

What data you get

One flat item per award (not per modification). Dates are ISO 8601; the last-modified timestamp is returned as published, without a timezone.

Field	Meaning	Example (from a real run)
awardId, generatedInternalId, awardType	Contract number (PIID), USAspending's unique key, award type	36C24727F0023, CONT_AWD_36C24727F0023_3600_NNG15SD24B_8000, DELIVERY ORDER
recipientName, recipientUei	Winning company and its Unique Entity ID	TECHANAX LLC, DJJ8LJTNK156
recipientCity, recipientState, recipientCountry	Recipient location	WOODBRIDGE, VA, UNITED STATES
awardAmount	Total obligated amount in USD (number), as USAspending reports it	7588520.55
dateSigned, startDate, endDate	Date the base award was signed, period of performance start and end	2026-10-19, 2026-11-02, 2027-10-31
department, subTier, fundingAgency	Awarding top-tier agency, awarding sub-agency, funding agency	Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
naicsCode, naicsDescription, pscCode, pscDescription	Industry and product/service classification	541519, OTHER COMPUTER RELATED SERVICES, R499
description	Award description, truncated to 2,000 characters, email addresses removed	DIPHR STATISTICAL SUPPORT CONTRACT - COHO CONSULTING GROUP
placeOfPerformanceCity/State/Country	Where the work is performed	DECATUR, GA, UNITED STATES
url, sourceUrl	Link to the award on usaspending.gov, and the API endpoint used
lastModifiedDate, scrapedAt	Last change in USAspending, and the run timestamp	2026-10-20T07:54:45

Fields the source leaves empty are returned as null. The contracting office is not part of this API's search results, so there is no office field.

How to use

1. Open the Actor and set your filters, for example NAICS 5415 and recipient state VA. Leave a filter empty to skip it. The form is prefilled with NAICS 5415 and maxItems 10 for a small test run.
2. Click Start. The first run returns every matching award in the lookback window (lookbackDays, default 7) up to maxItems, largest awards first.
3. Save the input as a task and put it on an Apify Schedule (daily is a natural fit). Each later run returns only awards not seen before. Send results to Google Sheets, your CRM or a webhook with Apify integrations.

Example input:

{
  "naicsCodes": ["5415"],
  "agencies": ["VETERANS", "NATIONAL AERONAUTICS"],
  "recipientStates": ["VA", "MD"],
  "minAmount": 100000,
  "dateMode": "published",
  "lookbackDays": 7,
  "maxAwardAgeDays": 180,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Filters

All filters are optional. Between filters it is AND, within one filter it is OR.

Input	Meaning
naicsCodes	Prefix match: 5415 matches 541511, 541512 and so on
pscCodes	Prefix match on the product/service code, e.g. R4 matches R499
agencies	Case-insensitive text match on the awarding department or sub-agency name, e.g. VETERANS, HEALTH. Applied after download (see Limitations)
recipientStates	Two-letter state of the recipient's location
placeOfPerformanceStates	Two-letter state where the work is performed
minAmount, maxAmount	Range on awardAmount in USD
keywords	Search terms passed to USAspending's own keyword search; USAspending decides which award text it matches
lookbackDays	Window size, default 7, maximum 90
dateMode	What the window refers to, see "Date modes" below: published (default), signed, anyAction
maxAwardAgeDays	Published mode only: skip awards signed more than this many days ago. Default 180, maximum 730, 0 keeps all ages
includeIdvs	Also include indefinite-delivery vehicles (GWAC, IDC, FSS, BOA, BPA). Default off
maxItems	Cap on results per run (default 100). Largest awards come first

Date modes

dateMode	Window refers to	Use it for
published (default)	Awards added to or changed in USAspending in the last lookbackDays days (the API's last-modified date), then kept only if signed within maxAwardAgeDays	A daily "what just appeared" feed. Catches late-loaded awards, including Department of Defense awards about 90 days after signing
signed	The base award was signed in the last lookbackDays days	A feed by signing date. Awards reported late fall out of a short window
anyAction	Any action on the award, such as a modification, in the window	Activity tracking, including modifications to old awards

The API allows only one date type per request, so the age limit of the published mode is applied after download. Because the published mode follows the last-modified date, it cannot tell a late first publication from a recent modification to an older award; the age limit and the seen list keep repeats small. Awards signed longer ago than maxAwardAgeDays are skipped, so raise it (maximum 730) if you want very late reports too. Without the seen list (onlyNew off), an award modified several times can appear in several runs.

New since last run

With onlyNew on (off by default; turn it on in your scheduled task) the Actor stores a compact list of award IDs in a named key-value store in your account (usaspending-awards-state), one entry per distinct filter combination.

• First run for a filter combination: returns everything in the lookback window (up to maxItems).
• Later runs: return only awards not seen before. In the default mode a late-reported award is returned when USAspending first publishes it.
• Seen awards are remembered for the longer of the lookback window and the maximum award age (published mode), plus 14 days after they were last seen, so an award that is modified again while it still qualifies is not returned twice. With award age set to 0 (keep all), or in the other modes, an award modified again after that can be returned a second time. Memory is capped at 200,000 awards per filter set (most recently seen kept).
• Awards cut off by maxItems (or by a spending limit) are not marked as seen, so the next run returns them.
• resetState forgets the list for the given filters and treats the run as a first run.
• Changing lookbackDays, maxAwardAgeDays or maxItems keeps the list. Changing any filter, dateMode or includeIdvs starts a new, separate list.
• Leave onlyNew off (the default) to get all matches in the window on every run.

Output example

Three real items from a run filtered to NAICS 5415 (sourceUrl is the API endpoint):

[
  {
    "awardId": "36C24727F0023",
    "generatedInternalId": "CONT_AWD_36C24727F0023_3600_NNG15SD24B_8000",
    "awardType": "DELIVERY ORDER",
    "recipientName": "TECHANAX LLC",
    "recipientUei": "DJJ8LJTNK156",
    "recipientCity": "WOODBRIDGE",
    "recipientState": "VA",
    "recipientCountry": "UNITED STATES",
    "awardAmount": 7588520.55,
    "dateSigned": "2026-10-19",
    "startDate": "2026-11-02",
    "endDate": "2027-10-31",
    "department": "Department of Veterans Affairs",
    "subTier": "Department of Veterans Affairs",
    "fundingAgency": "Department of Veterans Affairs",
    "naicsCode": "541519",
    "naicsDescription": "OTHER COMPUTER RELATED SERVICES",
    "pscCode": "N063",
    "pscDescription": "INSTALLATION OF EQUIPMENT- ALARM, SIGNAL, AND SECURITY DETECTION SYSTEMS",
    "description": "ATLANTA VA HEALTHCARE SYSTEM CCTV, ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER, DECATUR, GA",
    "placeOfPerformanceCity": "DECATUR",
    "placeOfPerformanceState": "GA",
    "placeOfPerformanceCountry": "UNITED STATES",
    "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_36C24727F0023_3600_NNG15SD24B_8000",
    "sourceUrl": "https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/",
    "lastModifiedDate": "2026-10-20T07:54:45",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-22T14:45:46.543Z"
  },
  {
    "awardId": "75N98027F00002",
    "generatedInternalId": "CONT_AWD_75N98027F00002_7529_47QTCA25D00D4_4732",
    "awardType": "DELIVERY ORDER",
    "recipientName": "COHO CONSULTING GROUP LLC",
    "recipientUei": "TJKFN63UW7G7",
    "recipientCity": "ANCHORAGE",
    "recipientState": "AK",
    "recipientCountry": "UNITED STATES",
    "awardAmount": 2142729.6,
    "dateSigned": "2026-10-15",
    "startDate": "2026-10-19",
    "endDate": "2027-10-18",
    "department": "Department of Health and Human Services",
    "subTier": "National Institutes of Health",
    "fundingAgency": "Department of Health and Human Services",
    "naicsCode": "541519",
    "naicsDescription": "OTHER COMPUTER RELATED SERVICES",
    "pscCode": "R499",
    "pscDescription": "SUPPORT- PROFESSIONAL: OTHER",
    "description": "DIPHR STATISTICAL SUPPORT CONTRACT - COHO CONSULTING GROUP",
    "placeOfPerformanceCity": "BETHESDA",
    "placeOfPerformanceState": "MD",
    "placeOfPerformanceCountry": "UNITED STATES",
    "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_75N98027F00002_7529_47QTCA25D00D4_4732",
    "sourceUrl": "https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/",
    "lastModifiedDate": "2026-10-15T09:56:15",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-22T14:45:46.543Z"
  },
  {
    "awardId": "9531CB27F0001",
    "generatedInternalId": "CONT_AWD_9531CB27F0001_955F_9531CB26A0006_955F",
    "awardType": "BPA CALL",
    "recipientName": "GOLDEN IT LLC",
    "recipientUei": "F6TTFW4CEL95",
    "recipientCity": "OLATHE",
    "recipientState": "KS",
    "recipientCountry": "UNITED STATES",
    "awardAmount": 1567334.4,
    "dateSigned": "2026-10-16",
    "startDate": "2026-10-21",
    "endDate": "2027-10-20",
    "department": "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau",
    "subTier": "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau",
    "fundingAgency": "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau",
    "naicsCode": "541511",
    "naicsDescription": "CUSTOM COMPUTER PROGRAMMING SERVICES",
    "pscCode": "DA01",
    "pscDescription": "IT AND TELECOM - BUSINESS APPLICATION/APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT SERVICES (LABOR)",
    "description": "MICROSOFT SERVICES CALL 0001",
    "placeOfPerformanceCity": "OLATHE",
    "placeOfPerformanceState": "KS",
    "placeOfPerformanceCountry": "UNITED STATES",
    "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_9531CB27F0001_955F_9531CB26A0006_955F",
    "sourceUrl": "https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/",
    "lastModifiedDate": "2026-10-20T10:56:09",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-22T14:45:46.543Z"
  }
]

Data lag and late-loaded awards

USAspending publishes what agencies report, so awards appear after the agency reports them. In our checks civilian awards appeared within days of signing. Department of Defense awards are published with a delay of about 90 days. In a check on 2026-10-22 the API had no DoD contract awards signed in the previous three weeks, almost none for mid-August, and many for mid-July.

That is why the default mode follows the publication (last-modified) date instead of the signed date. In a default-mode run on 2026-10-22 with NAICS 5415 and a 7-day window, 37 of the 300 awards kept were DoD awards signed between 2026-04-27 and 2026-07-21 and last modified on 15 and 16 October. In signed mode a DoD award shows up only after its signed date has already left a short window, so signed mode will mostly miss them. Those DoD items keep their original dateSigned.

Pricing

Pay per result: you are charged for each award written to the dataset (Apify pay-per-event, event result). Awards that are filtered out or already seen are not charged. Set maxItems to cap the cost of a run. The current price per 1,000 results is shown on this page.

Use cases

• Daily "new awards" alert for your NAICS or PSC codes. Filter, schedule daily, and get only the awards published since the last run into Sheets or your CRM.
• Competitor and teaming-partner leads. See who just won work, for how much and for which agency, with recipient name, UEI and location.
• Defense contractors and primes. Follow DoD awards as they are published, even though they load about 90 days after signing.
• Weekly award volume by agency or state. Filter by agency, recipient state or place-of-performance state and total awardAmount in your sheet.
• Capture teams with several clients. One saved task per client, each with its own new-since-last-run list.
• Opportunities to awards. Use this Actor with the companion SAM.gov Actor to track what was bid and then what was awarded in the same NAICS codes.

Privacy

Only the recipient's name, UEI and city, state and country are returned for the winner; no officer or contact fields are requested. Some recipients can be sole proprietors, whose names appear as USAspending publishes them. In description, email addresses are replaced with [email removed], but free text can still mention names or phone numbers.

FAQ

Do I need an account or API key? No. The Actor uses the public USAspending.gov API, with no login or key.

Which awards are included? Prime contract awards: purchase orders, delivery orders, BPA calls and definitive contracts. Indefinite-delivery vehicles are available with includeIdvs. Grants, loans and subawards are not included. Each award is one item, not one item per modification.

What is awardAmount? The total obligated amount for the award as USAspending reports it. The amount filters are checked against this value.

How are results ordered, and what if there are more than maxItems? Largest awards first (regular contracts first, then indefinite-delivery vehicles when enabled). The rest stay unseen and are returned on the next run (with onlyNew on).

How often is the data updated? As often as agencies report to USAspending. Running more than once a day only helps for awards that appeared in between.

Is the data complete? It contains the awards the USAspending API returns. Results come from a live database sorted by amount, so on rare occasions a row can be skipped if the data changes during a run. No completeness is guaranteed.

What if the API changes? If expected fields are missing in more than 20% of awards, or the response shape is unexpected, the run stops with an error instead of returning bad data. Temporary errors and rate-limit responses are retried with backoff. The Actor makes at most one request per second.

Is this legal to use? The Actor reads a public federal data API and does not log in to anything. You are responsible for how you use the data.

Each run writes a RUN_SUMMARY record with requests made, awards read, items emitted, whether the page cap was hit, runtime and peak memory.

Limitations

• Data is as fresh as agency reporting; DoD awards are published about 90 days after signing (see above). The default mode returns them when they appear, with their original signed date.
• The awarding contracting office is not available from this API's search results, so it is not returned.
• A run reads up to 30,000 awards per award-type group (300 pages of 100, at one request per second); the rest is not read. Results are read largest first, so the smallest awards are the ones cut off. Narrow the filters (NAICS, PSC, state, minAmount) for very broad searches. In the default mode a 7-day window for NAICS 5415 is about 840 awards (9 requests, 9 seconds); with no filters it is tens of thousands, and the run stops at the cap with a warning and truncated set in RUN_SUMMARY.
• Agency filtering is a text match done after download, so a broad agency-only search reads every award in the window. Combine it with a NAICS or PSC filter to keep runs small.
• Not every filter exists in both companion Actors: set-aside and notice type are SAM.gov only; PSC, amount, recipient state and place-of-performance state filters are here only.

See also

Looking for open opportunities before they are awarded? Use the companion Actor, SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Scraper & Monitor: the same kind of daily new-since-last-run feed, for solicitations, sources sought and presolicitations. Run opportunities there, then follow who won the work here. Shared names include naicsCodes, agencies, keywords, maxItems, naicsCode, pscCode, department, subTier and awardAmount.

Changelog

• 0.1: first release.