Federal procurement data for developers and AI agents

GovCon API is a REST API and MCP server for U.S. federal procurement data. Query SAM.gov contract opportunities, FPDS contracts, subawards, SAM registrations, exclusions, solicitation documents, procurement forecasts, labor rates and bid protests on one key.

Records connect on shared identifiers such as UEI, PIID, NAICS and agency, so an application or agent can start with a firm, award or solicitation and follow it across sources without a separate integration for each.

No credit card required. 1,000 requests an hour on a paid plan, against 10 a day on a personal SAM.gov key. Read the quickstart

Sources: SAM.gov · FPDS · USAspending · SBA · GAO · GSA · agency systems. Coverage and freshness for every source

What you get

Two layers on one key: the federal record from its government sources, and the workflows we build on it.

The federal record

Each dataset in the same JSON shape, with the same search, paging and field options, and every value exactly as its source published it.

Coverage, history and freshness for each dataset are on Data.

Workflows

We join records on the identifiers they share, read the text of solicitation documents and compute over what we hold. Most answers come with the records behind them, so a result can be checked rather than taken as an unexplained score.

How each one works, and what it draws on, is on Workflows.

Two ways in

Both layers on the same key, from your own code or from your AI assistant.

REST API

For applications, pipelines and internal tools: structured JSON with a bearer token, documented in the API guide.

MCP

For Claude on the web and in its apps, with nothing to install: connect GovCon API to Claude and sign in with your email. For Claude Code, Cursor and other local clients, follow the MCP setup. Either way, your assistant picks and chains the tools itself.

A real response

Live responses from the API, one dataset per tab, exactly as returned. Look for the identifiers that lead to related records, such as a UEI, PIID or NAICS code.

{
  "data": [
    {
      "notice_id": "01e61934220a4be4a428e53633e23598",
      "title": "Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (ID/IQ) Small Business Environmental Remedial Action Contract for Sites in Hawaii, Guam, and Other Areas within the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific Area of Responsibility VI (SBRAC VI)",
      "notice_type": "Solicitation",
      "agency": "DEPT OF DEFENSE.DEPT OF THE NAVY.NAVFAC.NAVFAC PACIFIC CMD.NAVFACSYSCOM PACIFIC",
      "naics": [
        "562910"
      ],
      "psc": [
        "F108"
  ... 179 more lines

{
  "data": [
    {
      "contract_transaction_unique_key": "1100_7529_11316023F0015OMB_P00018_HHSN316201200178W_0",
      "contract_award_unique_key": "CONT_AWD_11316023F0015OMB_1100_HHSN316201200178W_7529",
      "award_id_piid": "11316023F0015OMB",
      "parent_award_id_piid": "HHSN316201200178W",
      "modification_number": "P00018",
      "action_date": "2026-08-31",
      "action_type": "FUNDING ONLY ACTION",
      "federal_action_obligation": 31367.02,
      "current_total_value_of_award": 40753722.78,
  ... 71 more lines

{
  "data": [
    {
      "award_id_piid": "47QFMA21G0001",
      "contract_award_unique_key": "CONT_IDV_47QFMA21G0001_4732",
      "idv_type": "BOA",
      "idv_type_code": "D",
      "prime_award_base_transaction_description": "ESKAN VILLAGE COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT",
      "transaction_description": "MIGRATED ID03210011  USMTM COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT",
      "action_date": "2026-08-31",
      "period_of_performance_start_date": "2021-03-23",
      "ordering_period_end_date": "2024-03-22",
  ... 64 more lines

{
  "data": [
    {
      "subaward_sam_report_id": "6CB75213-BD53-451B-AE5E-AAC7BD88B23D",
      "subaward_number": "PO0401252",
      "subaward_action_date": "2026-08-06",
      "subaward_amount": 12477.61,
      "subaward_description": "THE PURPOSE OF THIS REQUIREMENT IS TO PROVIDE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE GRANT MANAGEMENT SERVICES, IT SOLUTIONS, AND SUPPORT TO GRANTSOLUTIONS AND ITS PARTNERS.",
      "subaward_sam_report_last_modified_date": "2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00",
      "prime_award_piid": "140D0423F0882",
      "prime_award_parent_piid": "HHSN316201200040W",
      "prime_award_amount": 403073999.7,
  ... 79 more lines

{
  "query": {
    "q": "technologies",
    "naics": null,
    "naics_small": null,
    "state": null,
    "business_type": null,
    "active_only": false
  },
  "pagination": {
    "limit": 2,
    "offset": 0,
  ... 115 more lines

{
  "data": [
    {
      "uei_sam": null,
      "entity_name": "Dennis Alexis Santos",
      "classification_type": "Individual",
      "cage_code": null,
      "npi": null,
      "first_name": "Dennis",
      "middle_name": "Alexis",
      "last_name": "Santos",
      "prefix": null,
  ... 70 more lines

Why GovCon API

Federal contracting data is public. Working with it still means a government API that rations access or a web application priced per seat.

We think that belongs to the last century. Since September 2025 we have served the federal record through an API and an MCP server for one flat monthly fee, so the work happens in your own software or inside your AI agent.

Most people come for one thing: SAM.gov contract opportunities in their own code, with the full description on every notice and no registration to wait on. Everything else here, from contracts to exclusions to the workflows, is on the same key when you need it.

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Questions

Flat monthly pricing

Pricing you don't have to model: one flat monthly price, with no per-call fees, credits or annual contract. Both paid plans have the same limits, so you choose by what each plan includes, not by how much you call.

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Not ready for a key?

We wrote down what the government's own systems do, because we had to learn it to build this. The SAM.gov API guide covers registration, authentication and every endpoint; its rate limits explain why a personal key gets 10 requests a day and what raises it to 1,000; its response shapes map the nesting that breaks parsers; and its exclusions list covers the records that carry no UEI. USAspending gets the same treatment for federal spending, and data freshness explains how long an award takes to become public.

One lookup needs no account at all: CAGE code lookup takes five characters and returns the firm that holds them, with its UEI, registration status and primary NAICS.