USAspending Federal Awards – New Contracts & Grants Leads

New US federal contract and grant awards from USAspending.gov: recipient, UEI, amount, agency, NAICS, PSC, state. Filter by agency, NAICS, state and amount. 'New since last run' mode. No API key.

Who it's for: Gov-con BD teams, subcontractor prospecting (who just won a prime?), B2B sales to newly funded contractors, journalists and analysts.

Why this actor

• Official public API (https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/), so there's no scraping, no proxies and no key. It's fast and cheap.
• Clean, flat records with direct links, ready for a CRM, Sheets or Slack.
• New since last run: schedule it daily and get only new records, which makes it work as an alert feed.
• Pay only per result. Empty runs cost almost nothing.

Input

Field	Description
daysBack	Used when no dates are set: look at the last N days. Grants are published with a delay of a few weeks and DoD contracts with a 90-day delay, so use 30 days or more.
dateFrom	Start of the date range, format YYYY-MM-DD. Overrides Days back.
dateTo	End of the date range, format YYYY-MM-DD. The default is today.
newAwardsOnly	On: only awards whose first action falls in the range (new awards). Off: any award with a transaction in the range, which includes modifications.
awardTypes	Award categories to fetch: contracts, idvs, grants, loans, directPayments, other.
agencies	Top-tier awarding agency names exactly as USAspending lists them, e.g. "Department of Veterans Affairs". Leave empty for all.
naicsCodes	NAICS codes or prefixes (contracts only), e.g. 541511 or 54. Leave empty for all.
states	2-letter US state codes of the recipient's location, e.g. VA, MD. Leave empty for all.
keywords	Keywords to match in award descriptions or recipient names.
minAmount	Only awards with an amount of at least this many US dollars.
maxAmount	Only awards with an amount of at most this many US dollars.
maxItems	Maximum number of records to output (and charge for) in this run.
newSinceLastRun	Remember the records already returned and output only new ones on later runs. Use it on a schedule for alerts.
stateKey	Name of the memory used by 'new since last run'. Use a different key for each saved search so they don't share memory.

Output example

{
  "awardId": "70Z05026F43000039",
  "awardCategory": "contracts",
  "awardType": "DELIVERY ORDER",
  "recipientName": "TUTOR PERINI CORPORATION",
  "recipientUei": "MT9AATHS7ZB5",
  "amount": 315000000,
  "totalOutlays": null,
  "description": "THE PURPOSE OF THIS DESIGN BUILD TO BUDGET AWARD IS FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A FUEL PIER AND MAJOR CUTTER MOORING AT USCG BASE KODIAK, AK.",
  "awardingAgency": "Department of Homeland Security",
  "awardingSubAgency": "U.S. Coast Guard",
  "fundingAgency": "Department of Homeland Security",
  "startDate": "2026-09-11",
  "endDate": "2030-09-30",
  "baseObligationDate": "2026-09-11",
  "lastModified": "2026-09-15 13:33:39",
  "naicsCode": "236220",
  "naicsDescription": "COMMERCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION",
  "pscCode": "Y1JZ",
  "pscDescription": "CONSTRUCTION OF MISCELLANEOUS BUILDINGS",
  "assistanceListing": null,
  "placeOfPerformanceState": "AK",
  "awardUrl": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70Z05026F43000039_7008_70Z04723DPCNI0004_7008",
  "recipientUrl": "https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/655f88c1-de1a-f9fa-0855-037592b2db30-C/latest",
  "internalId": "CONT_AWD_70Z05026F43000039_7008_70Z04723DPCNI0004_7008",
  "source": "USAspending.gov"
}

Tips

• For alerts, schedule a daily run with newSinceLastRun: true, and give each saved search its own stateKey.
• Export as CSV, Excel or JSON, or connect through Zapier, Make or webhooks.

How to use

1. Click Try for free (or Start) — the form is pre-filled with a small working example.
2. Adjust the filters and Max results, then run. Most runs finish in under a minute.
3. Open the Output tab to view the table, or export CSV, Excel or JSON, or pull it via the API, Zapier, Make, Google Sheets or webhooks.
4. For alerts, save the input as a task, turn on New since last run, and schedule it daily or weekly.

What's new (October 2026)

• Track a competitor or partner: Recipient name contains filter.
• Small-business set-asides: filter contracts by set-aside code (SBA, 8A, HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB...).

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.002 per award ($2 per 1,000). 500 new awards cost about $1.00. You only pay for rows you receive; a run that finds nothing costs almost nothing. Set Max results or a maximum cost per run to cap spend — the actor stops cleanly at the limit.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? From the official USAspending.gov API. No login or API key is needed.

How fresh is it? USAspending is updated daily; grants appear with a lag of a few weeks and DoD contracts with a 90-day delay.

Is it legal to use? The data is public government data (or public DNS records). You are responsible for how you use it, e.g. CAN-SPAM/GDPR rules when contacting businesses.

What happens if the source is slow or down? Requests are retried with backoff. If the source fails mid-run, results already collected are kept and the run finishes with a clear status message instead of crashing. The run also stops cleanly before its timeout.

Where is the run summary? In the key-value store record OUTPUT_SUMMARY (counts, filters applied, why the run stopped).

I need a field or filter that's missing. Open an issue on the Issues tab.

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Data is public US government data. This actor is not affiliated with the US government.

Data source & disclaimer

• Source: USAspending.gov official API (api.usaspending.gov), run by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
• How fresh: agencies report daily; contract awards can appear up to about 30–90 days after signing (DoD has a built-in 90-day delay). Each row has scrapedAt (when this run fetched it) and lastModified (the source's last update to the award).
• Licence & attribution: U.S. federal government data, public domain (17 U.S.C. § 105). No attribution required; we credit "Source: USAspending.gov".
• Disclaimer: Data is provided as is from public records, without warranty of any kind. Records can contain errors, omissions or delays from the source or from processing, so check anything important against the official source. This actor and its output are not legal, financial, compliance or medical advice. You are responsible for using the data lawfully: for example CAN-SPAM, TCPA, GDPR and local marketing rules when you contact recipients. This actor is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by USAspending.gov, the U.S. Treasury or any U.S. government agency.
• Last verified: 2026-10-19.