About GovCon API

GovCon API is a clean data layer over federal procurement: opportunities, awards, subawards, the SAM entity registry, exclusions, and buyer contacts, in one API.

The data is public, but getting it programmatically isn't. SAM.gov gates registration, leaves opportunity descriptions out of its own API, and reliable production access takes more engineering than most teams can justify, so people either give up or pay enterprise platforms that treat public data like a moat. This removes that friction.

We pull from the official systems, normalize them onto the identifiers they share (UEI, PIID, CFDA, agency), and refresh daily. The part most data vendors skip: we tell you where it's imperfect.

Federal data has real defects. SAM issues a fresh notice id for every amendment, so records that look "missing" are usually superseded. Some award records carry no UEI. Some entities opt out of public disclosure entirely. We surface these, document them in our guides, and validate inputs at the API edge so a bad request returns a clear error, not a silent failure.

We would rather show you the gap than pretend it isn't there. For a data provider you have never met, that is the only honest basis for trust.

Contract opportunities, prime awards, subawards, the SAM entity registry, exclusions, and contracting-officer contacts, sourced from SAM.gov, FPDS, and USAspending, served as one clean REST API.

Every dataset, its coverage window, and the exact date it was last current, lives on the data page, read live from the API rather than hand-maintained, so it can't quietly go stale.

Nothing here is "done." We work on it every week: new sources, faster endpoints, deeper enrichment, wider coverage, with quality and speed the things we push hardest. Every change is dated and public.

See the changelog