The federal contracting
data layer
Opportunities, contracts, grants, subawards, the SAM registry, exclusions, and buyer contacts: separate, compiled, or cross-linked.
Refreshed daily. Clean JSON or MCP, no SAM.gov registration or rate limits.
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Need agency data?
Free crosswalk of 1,700+ standardized federal agency names.
Works in Claude or any MCP-compatible client.
Ask in plain English. Included with any paid plan. pipx install govconapi-mcp
Federal Buyer Intelligence.
21,000+ federal buyers, contacts, spending history, and vendor insights. Updated daily.
Need a complete CSV snapshot?
$29 one-time database dump: 574,182 opportunities, 59 fields, delivered via download link.
What you get
See full capabilities tour → with use cases, code samples, and tier breakdown for each.
Contract Notices
574,182 notices · full descriptions + attachments · daily sync
Every federal contract notice from SAM.gov in clean JSON, including the full descriptions and attachment files SAM's own API and CSV leave out (78.0% description coverage, 211,848 notices with files). Full-text search, NAICS/PSC filtering, date ranges, set-asides. SAM.gov API guide.
Federal Contracts
9,020,920 FPDS transactions · every modification · daily sync
Every federal prime contract transaction: who won, how much, from which agency, under which vehicle, when. Base award and every modification. Searchable by recipient UEI, PIID, agency, NAICS, or award type. Contracts API guide.
Federal Grant Awards
1,125,879 assistance transactions · every modification
The grant side of federal spending: who received block, formula, and project grants and cooperative agreements, money to states, universities, hospitals, nonprofits, and tribes. Base award and every modification, searchable by recipient UEI, agency, CFDA program, or recipient type. Award history, not open opportunities. Grant awards API guide.
Federal Grant Opportunities
1,330 open opportunities · 936 forecasted
Open and forecasted federal grant funding from grants.gov: the money you can still apply for, the forward-looking counterpart to grant awards. Filter by eligibility (for-profit, small business, nonprofit), agency, CFDA program, funding category, or deadline. Pro adds program intelligence: who has historically won each program and the real award size. Grant opportunities API guide.
Federal Subawards (FFATA)
218,830 reports · supply-chain mapping
Every FFATA Section 2 report: who paid whom under each prime contract. Map a prime's supply chain, see the real federal revenue of small businesses (sub income often the larger half), screen excluded vendors for ongoing payments. Subawards API guide.
Exclusions Database
163,555 entities · full SAM.gov debarment list
Every debarred and suspended entity. Search by name, UEI, CAGE, agency, or state. Required before teaming or subcontracting. Exclusions guide.
Vendor Risk Intelligence
7 fraud-pattern signals per UEI · triage verdict
Screen any vendor in one call: address cluster, name-variant cluster, coordinated enforcement wave, last-award-to-debarment gap. Try the free lookup or see how it works.
Company Lookup
~881K firms · by UEI, CAGE, or name
Look up any federal contractor by UEI, CAGE, or name: SAM registration status, expiration, certifications, address, plus aggregated award history (totals, top agencies, NAICS spread, peers by overlap). Company Intelligence API · UEI lookup.
Federal Contractor Search
Multi-filter across 881K firms · Pro
Programmatic equivalent of SBA's DSBS. Filter by NAICS, state, business-type certification, active-status, name. Paginated JSON results. Try the free search or see the API.
Renewal Radar
SAM registrations expiring within N days · Pro
Every active federal contractor whose SAM registration expires soon, sorted most-urgent first. Filter by state or NAICS for targeted compliance dashboards or renewal-services campaigns. Expiration checker.
Recompete Watchlist
Contracts nearing recompete · incumbent + contestability · Pro
Federal contracts approaching the end of their period of performance, before the RFP drops. Each with the incumbent, option-year runway, how contested the work was last cycle, named subcontractors, and pre-solicitation early signals. Filter by NAICS, agency, set-aside, and your own timing window. Recompete Watchlist guide.
Teaming Partners
Firms ranked by won work · named contacts · Pro
Build a teaming shortlist from real award history: firms that have actually won this kind of work, for this agency, in this state, ranked by past performance and returned with named points of contact. Teaming Partner Finder guide.
Federal Buyer Intelligence
Name, email, phone, title
Contracting officer contact info on every notice. Extended profiles via GovCon Contacts.
MCP for Claude
6 tools · pipx install govconapi-mcp
Federal contracts data inside Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client. Search opportunities, check exclusions, look up agencies in plain English. Setup guide.
Live data
Real responses from the API, one dataset per tab. Clean JSON, ISO dates, strict typing.
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Pricing
See full pricing → with the complete tier-by-tier comparison and FAQ.
Free Trial
Full API access for 14 days. No credit card required.
- ·25 requests per day
- ·50 results max per page
- ·All search filters
- ·All 59 fields per contract notice
- ·MCP access (Claude, Cursor, etc.)
Developer
Direct access to the raw data corpus, every federal dataset in clean JSON.
- ·1,000 requests per hour (24,000/day)
- ·1,000 results max per page
- ·CSV exports (15 per day)
- ·Awards search + exclusions
- ·No SAM.gov entity required
- ·UEI Lookup API + CAGE Code Lookup
- ·MCP access (Claude, Cursor, etc.)
- ·30 GovCon Contacts views/mo (web app)
Pro
Joined data and insights, assembled for the decisions you make.
- ·Everything in Developer
- ·Recompete Watchlist
- ·Teaming Partners
- ·Vendor Risk Intelligence
- ·Company Intelligence
- ·Federal Contractor Search
- ·Renewal Radar
- ·Unlimited GovCon Contacts + API
Data layer, not application. We don't ship a UI that competes with what you build on this; custom endpoints and slices ship in days. Enterprise →