SAM.gov Scraper — Federal Contract Opportunities, Defense RFPs & Set-Aside Harvester

Extract active U.S. federal contract opportunities, defense solicitations (DoD, Army, Air Force, Navy, DHS, VA), Sources Sought notices, small business set-asides (8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, HUBZone), award notices, and direct RFP/Statement of Work (SOW) PDF download links from SAM.gov in seconds—with zero SAM.gov API key required.

Built for GovCon business development (BD) teams, capture managers, proposal writers, cold-email lead generation agencies (Clay / n8n / Make), and AI procurement agents (MCP) who need real-time federal tender feeds without waiting 10+ business days for GSA API key approval or hitting daily rate limits.

Why GovCon BD Teams & AI Agents Choose This SAM.gov Scraper

• No SAM.gov API Key Required (Keyless + BYOK Dual Engine): Queries SAM.gov's internal SGS v1 network layer via HTTP/2 TLS session impersonation (curl-cffi) out of the box, or routes through api.sam.gov/prod/opportunities/v2/search if you supply an optional samApiKey.
• Direct RFP & Statement of Work (SOW) PDF Links: Optionally traverses SAM.gov's v3 attachment resource tree (/opps/v3/opportunities/{id}/resources) to resolve direct download URLs for Section C Statements of Work, Section L/M proposal instructions, pricing spreadsheets, and amendments.
• Sub-Second Execution on a 128MB Micro Container: Operates purely at the socket layer with zero headless Chromium overhead (~20.2 MB average RSS, <35 MB peak), parsing 30+ federal opportunities in ~1 second.
• Strict Pydantic Schema & Deduplication: Every notice is normalized and validated into clean, CRM-ready JSON (notice_id, solicitation_number, agency_code, agency_name, naics_code, set_aside, posted_date, response_deadline, award_amount, awardee_name, awardee_uei, source_url, attachments).
• Predictable Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing: Zero monthly subscription—pay strictly for validated results pushed to your dataset.

High-ROI GovCon Workflows You Can Automate Today

1. Daily Set-Aside Bid Radar (8(a) / SDVOSB / WOSB / Total Small Business): Schedule this Actor every morning on Apify to pull newly posted solicitations in your exact 6-digit NAICS codes (541511, 541512, 541519, 541330, 541611) and push matching tenders directly to Slack, Microsoft Teams, HubSpot, or Salesforce.
2. Automated RFP / SOW RAG Pipelines for Proposal Teams: Enable includeAttachments: true to feed live Statement of Work PDF URLs into an LLM / vector database so capture engineers can score Pwin (Probability of Win) and draft compliance matrices automatically.
3. B2B GovCon Agency Outbound (Clay + n8n + Make): Pull freshly posted Sources Sought and Presolicitation notices, enrich the incumbent contractor via our companion USASpending Incumbent & Recompete Enricher, and pitch teaming or proposal-writing services to qualified primes.

Input Parameters

All parameters match .actor/input_schema.json for seamless UI, REST API, and MCP agent execution:

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchKeywords	string	"artificial intelligence cybersecurity"	Keywords, technical phrases, or specific solicitation numbers (e.g., "zero trust", "cloud migration", "W911NF").
naicsCodes	array<string>	["541511", "541512"]	Up to 25 6-digit NAICS codes to filter opportunities (e.g., 541511 Custom Computer Programming, 541512 Computer Systems Design).
setAsideTypes	string	"ALL"	Filter by federal small business set-aside: "ALL", "SBA" (Total Small Business), "8A" (8(a)), "HZC" (HUBZone), "SDVOSBC" (Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned), "WOSB", or "EDWOSB".
postedWithinDays	integer	14	Harvest opportunities posted or modified within the last 1 to 365 days.
maxRecords	integer	100	Hard cap on total validated opportunities to harvest (1–10000). Controls your maximum PPE spend per run.
includeAttachments	boolean	false	When true, fetches the secondary notice resource tree to extract direct download links for RFP/SOW PDFs (+$0.02 per attachment).
samApiKey	string	""	Optional BYOK SAM.gov Public API key (open.gsa.gov). Leave blank to use the built-in keyless TLS harvester.
proxyConfiguration	object	{"useApifyProxy": true}	Optional Apify Proxy or custom proxy configuration for high-volume institutional runs.

Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing & Cost Examples

You only pay for validated records delivered to your dataset:

Event Name	Price (USD)	Trigger Condition
actor-start	$0.05	Charged once when the Actor run initializes.
opportunity-harvested	$0.03	Charged per Pydantic-validated SAM.gov opportunity pushed to the dataset.
solicitation-attachment-extracted	$0.02	Charged per non-deleted RFP/SOW attachment download link extracted (only when includeAttachments: true).

• Example 1 (Daily NAICS Monitoring — 50 Solicitations, No Attachments): $0.05 + (50 × $0.03) = $1.55 total.
• Example 2 (Deep Capture Run — 100 Solicitations + 40 SOW PDF Links): $0.05 + (100 × $0.03) + (40 × $0.02) = $3.85 total.

Sample Input JSON (Apify API / Clay / n8n / Make)

{
  "searchKeywords": "zero trust cybersecurity",
  "naicsCodes": ["541511", "541512"],
  "setAsideTypes": "SBA",
  "postedWithinDays": 14,
  "maxRecords": 50,
  "includeAttachments": true
}

Sample Output Record

{
  "notice_id": "SAM-2026-HQ0034-0192",
  "title": "Enterprise Cloud Architecture & Zero Trust Migration",
  "solicitation_number": "HQ003426R0012",
  "notice_type": "Solicitation",
  "agency_code": "DEPT OF DEFENSE.DEPT OF THE ARMY.AMC",
  "agency_name": "Department of Defense.Department of the Army.AMC",
  "naics_code": "541512",
  "set_aside": "Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)",
  "posted_date": "2026-10-25T14:30:00Z",
  "response_deadline": "2026-11-30T17:00:00Z",
  "award_amount": 450000.0,
  "awardee_name": "AEGIS FEDERAL CYBER LLC",
  "awardee_uei": "J8K2L9M4N1P2",
  "source_url": "https://sam.gov/opp/SAM-2026-HQ0034-0192/view",
  "attachments": [
    {
      "name": "Statement_of_Work_Section_C.pdf",
      "url": "https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resources/files/res-0192-sow/download",
      "resource_id": "res-0192-sow",
      "mime_type": ".pdf",
      "size_bytes": 482910,
      "access_level": "public",
      "posted_date": "2026-10-25T14:00:00Z"
    }
  ]
}

Pair With Actor #2 for Full-Cycle Capture Intelligence

SAM.gov shows open pre-award solicitations, while USASpending.gov (FPDS) holds the historical prime awards, IDIQ task orders, option modifications, and expiring incumbent contracts (including 22,000+ contractors whose task orders never post as standalone SAM Award Notices).

Chain this Actor with USASpending Incumbent & Recompete Enricher to:

1. Harvest active solicitations or NAICS codes from SAM.gov.
2. Automatically identify the incumbent prime contractor (UEI + Legal Name), past award ceiling, number of offers received (single-bid vulnerability), and contracts expiring in the next 30–180 days.

Compliance & Data Provenance

Operates strictly against public U.S. federal procurement transparency data pursuant to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).