USAspending Federal Awards and Recipient Monitor

How to use it: 3 steps

1. Make a free Apify accountApify is the cloud platform where our tools run. The free plan gives you $5 of usage every month, no credit card needed. You pay Apify, not us.
2. Paste your input and press StartNo code needed: you fill in a form (the input). It already has a working example. For example: contracts in Award types. Each start is one run.
3. Download the resultsWhen the run ends, the results are in a table (the dataset). Open Output, press Export and pick Excel or CSV. JSON and the API are there too.

This tool is an Apify Actor: a small program that runs on Apify. You can also run it on a schedule, for example every Monday. New to it? Read how it works, step by step and the 8 words you need first.

What it does

USAspending Federal Awards & Recipient Monitor finds US federal contracts, grants, loans and other awards in the official USAspending.gov data. Filter by recipient name or UEI, awarding agency, NAICS, PSC, keyword and dates. You get one clean row per award, with the recipient, the agencies, the obligated amount and the outlays as separate numbers, dates, codes and links to USAspending.

• Award search. Pick award types (contracts, IDVs, grants, loans, direct payments, other assistance) and filters. Each award type is searched on its own, and maxResults applies to each type.
• Clear names. Agency names and abbreviations (VA, NIH, DOD) are checked against the official agency list. A name that does not exist stops the run with suggestions. It does not silently return nothing.
• Monitoring. With a monitorKey, the Actor saves the awards it saw in your account. The next run marks each award new, updated or unchanged, and by default writes only the new and updated ones.

Who uses it

Price

Pay per event: you pay for each result the tool saves, plus a small start fee for each run. The price includes Apify platform costs. Apify bills you, not us. Prices below are for the Apify free plan.

Examples

• One award: about $0.004.
• 1,000 awards: about $2.00.
• Every day 100 awards, for 30 days: about $6.06 a month.

Free to try: the Apify free plan gives you $5 of usage every month, no credit card needed. That is enough for about 2,400 awards.

Prices checked on 24 October 2026. See the current price on Apify.

Questions

Details

For developers

Sample result

One result from a real test run, in JSON. Real values change from run to run. In Excel or CSV each field is a column.

{
  "changeType": "updated",
  "changedFields": ["totalOutlays", "lastModifiedDate"],
  "awardTypeGroup": "contracts",
  "awardId": "36C10B21N10150057",
  "awardType": "DELIVERY ORDER",
  "recipientName": "BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC",
  "recipientUei": "KHK6E1JW9C15",
  "awardingAgency": "Department of Veterans Affairs",
  "awardAmount": 753054309.17,
  "totalOutlays": 561175619.99,
  "startDate": "2021-09-30",
  "endDate": "2027-09-23",
  "naicsCode": "541512",
  "pscCode": "DA01",
  "awardUrl": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_36C10B21N10150057_3600_VA11816D1015_3600"
}

Use it from code

Actor ID: cliqtomedia/usaspending-federal-awards-monitor. You need your Apify API token from Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("cliqtomedia/usaspending-federal-awards-monitor").call(run_input={
    "awardTypes": [
        "contracts"
    ],
    "awardingAgencies": [
        "Department of Veterans Affairs"
    ]
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cliqtomedia~usaspending-federal-awards-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"awardTypes": ["contracts"], "awardingAgencies": ["Department of Veterans Affairs"]}'

# pip install langchain-apify
# set APIFY_TOKEN in your environment
from langchain_apify import ApifyActorsTool

tool = ApifyActorsTool("cliqtomedia/usaspending-federal-awards-monitor")
result = tool.invoke({"run_input": {"awardTypes": ["contracts"], "awardingAgencies": ["Department of Veterans Affairs"]}})
print(result)

The cURL call waits for the results, up to 300 seconds. For longer runs, start a run (/runs) and get the results with a webhook or by checking the run. Apify API docs. LlamaIndex, MCP for AI agents and the JavaScript client: AI agents & MCP.

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