SAM.gov Open Bids & Federal Contract Awards: GovCon Leads

For government contractors, small businesses and GovCon business development teams: find federal contract opportunities you can still bid on, straight from SAM.gov, and see who recently won similar work, from USAspending.gov. Filter both by keyword, NAICS code, agency, state and set-aside. No SAM.gov account or API key needed.

What you get

• Open bids from SAM.gov: solicitations, combined synopsis/solicitations, sources sought and presolicitations still open for responses, newest first, with the response deadline and how many days are left
• The details you need to decide: agency, sub-agency and office, notice type, set-aside (small business, SDVOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB...), NAICS and product/service codes, place of performance, the contracting officer SAM.gov lists on the notice, the full description and a link to the notice on SAM.gov
• Recent awards from USAspending.gov: who won, how much and from which agency, largest first, for teaming partners, subcontracting leads and competitor tracking
• One run, both sides: what you can bid on now, next to who has been winning that kind of work

Example output

An open bid from a local test run on 2026-11-13 (setAsides: ["SDVOSB"], naicsCodes: ["2362"]; the contracting officer's name, email and phone are hidden here, and the description is shortened):

{
  "rowType": "opportunity",
  "noticeId": "1a5811f6c2cb4c5d887f8b4b9ad3c664",
  "title": "Z1DZ--Project No. 640A0-27-104, Replace Roof at Building 347 - Menlo Park",
  "solicitationNumber": "36C26127Q0082",
  "noticeType": "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation",
  "agency": "VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF",
  "subTier": "VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF",
  "office": "261-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 21 (36C261)",
  "postedDate": "2026-11-12 20:47:17",
  "responseDeadline": "2026-12-01T13:00:00-08:00",
  "daysLeft": 19,
  "setAside": "Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Set-Aside (FAR 19.14)",
  "setAsideCode": "SDVOSBC",
  "naicsCode": "236220",
  "classificationCode": "Z1DZ",
  "placeOfPerformance": { "street": null, "city": "Menlo Park", "state": "CA", "zip": "94025", "country": "USA" },
  "contact": { "name": "(hidden here)", "title": "Contracting Officer", "email": "(hidden here)", "phone": "(hidden here)" },
  "secondaryContact": null,
  "active": true,
  "archiveDate": "2027-02-28",
  "award": null,
  "samUrl": "https://sam.gov/opp/1a5811f6c2cb4c5d887f8b4b9ad3c664/view",
  "additionalInfoUrl": null,
  "description": "Amendment 0002: The purpose of this amendment is to extend the solicitation closing date from November 19, 2026 to December 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM PST. The Governme..."
}

A recent award:

{
  "rowType": "award",
  "awardId": "70RCSJ23FR0000071",
  "recipientName": "ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC",
  "awardAmount": 43865348.3,
  "awardingAgency": "Department of Homeland Security",
  "awardingSubAgency": "Office of Procurement Operations",
  "contractType": "DELIVERY ORDER",
  "naicsCode": "541512",
  "naicsDescription": "COMPUTER SYSTEMS DESIGN SERVICES",
  "description": "INSIGHTS PROGRAM SUPPORT FOR THE VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT (VM) CYBERSECURITY DIVISION...",
  "startDate": "2023-09-29",
  "endDate": "2026-09-28",
  "usaspendingUrl": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70RCSJ23FR0000071_7001_HHSN316201200002W_7529"
}

rowType is "opportunity" for an open bid and "award" for an award. Rows that aren't data are free: "error" when a source couldn't be read (with the reason), and "note" when nothing matched. The Output tab has an Open bids (SAM.gov) view.

What it costs

• $0.002 per open bid returned.
• $0.007 per awards search, however many awards it returns (less on paid Apify plans).
• Error and note rows are free.

Run	Rows	Cost on the Free plan
The default: the 50 newest open bids and the 25 largest recent awards	75	$0.107
20 SDVOSB construction bids from the last 30 days	20	$0.04
500 open bids, no awards	500	$1.00
Awards only, any filters	up to 100	$0.007

Set maxBids to cap what a run can cost.

Use cases

• Small businesses and set-aside firms: every open bid reserved for you (SDVOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB) in your NAICS codes, on a schedule.
• GovCon business development: a daily pipeline of new solicitations and sources sought in your agencies and states, with the contracting officer to contact.
• Teaming and subcontracting: see who just won large awards in your NAICS code and pitch them your part of the work.
• Market research: which agencies buy what, where, and from whom.

Input

Field	What it does
search	both (default), openBids or awards.
keyword	Open bids: every word must appear in the title or description. Awards: USAspending's keyword search.
naicsCodes	NAICS codes. For open bids a shorter code covers the group: 5415 matches 541511, 541512 and more.
agency	Open bids match the agency or sub-agency by its words (Veterans Affairs, Air Force, Department of Defense). Awards need the exact top-tier name (Department of Defense).
recipientState	Two-letter state. Open bids: where the work is done. Awards: where the contractor is based.
setAsides	Open bids only. Code or wording: SBA or small business, SDVOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB or women.
noticeTypes	Open bids only. Solicitation, Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, Sources Sought, Presolicitation, Special Notice...
onlyOpen	Open bids only. Active notices whose response deadline hasn't passed (or isn't given); award notices and justifications left out. On by default.
minAwardAmount	Awards only. Minimum award amount in USD.
daysBack	Posting date for open bids, award date for awards. Default 30, up to 365.
maxBids	Maximum open bids, newest first. Default 50, up to 2,000.
maxResults	Maximum awards, largest first. Default 25, up to 100.

Service-disabled veteran-owned construction bids:

{
  "search": "openBids",
  "setAsides": ["SDVOSB"],
  "naicsCodes": ["2362"],
  "daysBack": 30
}

IT sources sought and solicitations performed in Virginia, with recent IT awards to Virginia-based contractors:

{
  "naicsCodes": ["5415"],
  "recipientState": "VA",
  "noticeTypes": ["Sources Sought", "Solicitation"]
}

How it works

• Open bids come from SAM.gov's public Contract Opportunities extract: the daily download of every notice that SAM.gov publishes for anyone, with no login and no API key. The file is sorted newest first, so a run reads from the top and stops as soon as it has enough matches or has passed daysBack. The 50 newest bids take a few MB; a month of narrowly filtered bids takes about 80 MB and under a minute. It's refreshed once a day, so a bid posted this morning appears the next day.
• Awards come from one call to the official USAspending.gov Award Search API, the U.S. Treasury's public, no-key transparency API.
• No proxy, no login, no scraping of the SAM.gov website.

Notes

• Contacts are the contracting officers SAM.gov lists on each notice, for questions about that solicitation.
• Deadlines are in the agency's own time zone, as SAM.gov gives them. daysLeft is rounded up.
• One row per bid. Amendments and follow-ups (a presolicitation, then the solicitation) are posted on SAM.gov as new notices under the same solicitation number, about 1 in 8 bids in a week. Only the newest notice for each solicitation number is returned, so you aren't charged twice for one bid, and a bid whose newest notice is an award doesn't come back through an older one.
• Unofficial. Not affiliated with SAM.gov, GSA or the U.S. Treasury. SAM.gov data is public U.S. government information.

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