About GovCon API

We're federal contractors. We were building tools for ourselves – alert systems, bid tracking, pipeline management – and kept hitting the same wall: getting reliable data out of SAM.gov is harder than it should be. Registration takes weeks, descriptions aren't in the API, and production-grade access requires more engineering than most teams can justify.

Federal contract data has traditionally been locked behind expensive enterprise platforms that control pricing and access. We think that's wrong. More builders should have access to this data, and more products in the market means more competition, better tools, and ultimately a more transparent federal procurement process.

So we built the data layer we needed and opened it up. That's GovCon API.

All data comes from SAM.gov, the official source for federal contract notices. We collect, normalize, and serve it through a clean REST API – updated daily with 59 structured fields per notice.

We also provide full notice descriptions, award data (who won, how much, when), exclusions (debarred entities), procurement contacts, and document attachments. See the full list of what's included.