NAICS award-value bands (simplified acquisition)

The award side of a NAICS market, cut by value band. Federal buys at or below the Simplified Acquisition Threshold ($350,000) use the streamlined procedures of FAR Part 13, and the band above the micro-purchase threshold ($15,000) and at or below the SAT is reserved for small business under FAR 13.003(b)(1) when the Rule of Two is met (FAR 19.502-2).

Why this endpoint exists: the regulation defines those value bands and reserves the $15k-$350k band for small business, but it does not tell you how a specific NAICS's awards actually distribute across the bands, or which offices buy in the reserved band. That varies widely by market and is only in the award record, not the regulation. This endpoint reads it, for one NAICS over the last 12 months of FPDS prime awards: how many awards fall in each value band, and for the simplified-acquisition band, which offices made them, with the count of distinct firms that won and the set-aside share. Factual, never scored: the counts are the output, and you interpret whether a band or office is open or concentrated. Pair it with /api/v1/naics/{code} (whole-market spending and competition) and /api/v1/naics/{code}/positioning (the language buyers use). Free with any key.

Path parameter

code (path): a NAICS code, 2 to 6 digits (e.g. 561720). A malformed code returns 400; a code with no FPDS prime-award activity in the last 12 months returns 404.

This endpoint takes no query parameters; any query string returns 400.

Response

{
  "naics_code": "561720",
  "total_awards": 4797,
  "thresholds": { "micro_purchase": 15000, "simplified_acquisition": 350000, "effective": "2025-10-01" },
  "award_value_bands": [
    { "band": "micro",                  "awards": 736,  "distinct_vendors": 323,  "distinct_offices": 226, "obligated": 5589907 },
    { "band": "simplified_acquisition", "awards": 2778, "distinct_vendors": 1150, "distinct_offices": 502, "obligated": 262237074 },
    { "band": "above_sat",              "awards": 1283, "distinct_vendors": 518,  "distinct_offices": 381, "obligated": 4986217611 }
  ],
  "simplified_acquisition_offices": [
    { "office": "697DCK REGIONAL ACQUISITIONS SVCS", "awards": 119, "distinct_vendors": 68, "set_aside_pct": 100 },
    { "office": "W6QM MICC FT MCCOY (RC)",           "awards": 110, "distinct_vendors": 58, "set_aside_pct": 100 },
    { "office": "DEPT OF COMMERCE NOAA",             "awards": 104, "distinct_vendors": 52, "set_aside_pct": 100 }
  ],
  "market_profile": "/api/v1/naics/561720",
  "positioning": "/api/v1/naics/561720/positioning",
  "partners": "/api/v1/partners/search?naics=561720",
  "window": { "since": "2025-08-11", "basis": "FPDS prime awards (trailing 12 months), deduped to award" },
  "_sources": ["usaspending_fpds"]
}

total_awards is the distinct prime awards in this NAICS over the trailing 12 months (see the window block). thresholds echoes the current FAR micro-purchase and Simplified Acquisition thresholds with the date they took effect; they are adjusted for inflation periodically, so they are returned rather than assumed. award_value_bands counts awards in three bands (micro under the micro-purchase threshold, simplified_acquisition between it and the SAT, above_sat at or above the SAT), each with the distinct firms that won (distinct_vendors), the distinct offices that bought (distinct_offices), and net dollars (obligated). simplified_acquisition_offices lists the offices making simplified-acquisition-band awards, ordered by award count, each with distinct_vendors (how many different firms won there) and set_aside_pct (share of those awards under a set-aside program). Those two fields are facts, not a ranking: an office spreading awards across many firms and one buying from a few read very differently, and you draw that conclusion, not us. market_profile, positioning, and partners cross-link to the whole-market picture, the language, and the firm records.

Errors

400: code is not a 2-to-6-digit NAICS, or a query string was sent.
404: no FPDS prime-award activity for that NAICS in the last 12 months.

Example

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  "https://govconapi.com/api/v1/naics/561720/simplified-acquisition"

GET /api/v1/naics/561720/simplified-acquisition (Janitorial Services) shows, as of 2026-08-11, 2,778 simplified-acquisition-band awards ($15k-$350k) spread across 1,150 distinct firms, against 1,283 awards above the SAT held by 518 firms, and lists the offices making those band awards with how many firms each one bought from. A supplies code tells a different story: NAICS 339994 (broom, brush, and mop manufacturing) is almost all micro-purchases, 2,546 of them, but across only 25 distinct firms. The counts are the same shape of data in both cases; what they mean for you is yours to read.

Data notes

prime_awards covers FY2025 onward (roughly the last 20 months); the trailing-12-month window sits inside that.
FPDS under-reports true micro-purchases. Many buys under the micro-purchase threshold are made on the government purchase card and never enter FPDS, so the micro band is a floor, not a complete count. The simplified_acquisition band is well captured.
Award value is current_total_value_of_award taken per distinct award; an award whose base is under the SAT but whose options carry it above will land in the band matching its total.