Capabilities

Every federal contract notice from SAM.gov, normalized into clean JSON. Solicitations, presolicitations, combined synopses, sources sought, sole source, modifications, awards. ~223K total records, 47K Award Notices. Refreshed twice daily.

What you can build

• Bid-discovery alerts on NAICS / agency / set-aside combinations
• Set-aside-targeted RFP feeds (8(a), HUBZone, WOSB, SDVOSB)
• Keyword + due-date search across active solicitations
• CSV export for analyst workflows (15 exports/day on Developer)
• Delta sync to keep an internal index up to date without re-downloading

Endpoints

GET /api/v1/opportunities/search
GET /api/v1/opportunities/{notice_id}
GET /api/v1/opportunities/delta?since=YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ
GET /export.csv

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  "https://govconapi.com/api/v1/opportunities/search?naics=541330&state=CA&limit=10"

API reference · SAM.gov API guide

Who won, how much, when. Awardee name, UEI, CAGE, award amount, award date, agency, NAICS, PSC, place of performance, contracting officer contact. Sourced from SAM.gov Award Notices.

What you can build

• Past-performance research: who has won similar work in this NAICS
• Win-rate dashboards tracking competitors by agency and NAICS
• Contract-amount distributions for proposal-pricing benchmarks
• Awardee discovery filtered by amount range

Endpoints

GET /api/v1/awards/search
GET /api/v1/awards/{award_number}

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  "https://govconapi.com/api/v1/awards/search?naics=541330&value_min=1000000&limit=20"

API reference · Awards API guide

Full opportunity descriptions, the long-form text that explains what the contracting officer actually wants. SAM.gov doesn't return these in their API or bulk CSV. We collect them so your AI / proposal tool / search index has the actual text. ~85% coverage across active notices.

What you can build

• Semantic search and AI summarization. RAG pipelines that need actual text.
• Proposal-matching tools comparing your past performance to description text
• Keyword-and-context filtering beyond NAICS / PSC

Returned as the description_text field on every /api/v1/opportunities/* response. No separate endpoint.

API reference

Every debarred and suspended entity on the federal exclusion list. ~163K records. Search by name, UEI, CAGE, agency, state, exclusion type, country. Required reading before teaming, subcontracting, or buying parts.

What you can build

• Pre-contract screening by UEI before sign-off
• Vendor onboarding flows with an exclusions check baked in
• Agency-specific risk scans (DLA, USN, GSA, etc.)
• Country and address-based reviews to spot patterns

Endpoints

GET /api/v1/exclusions/search
GET /api/v1/exclusions/{uei}

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  "https://govconapi.com/api/v1/exclusions/search?uei=ABCD12345678"

API reference · Exclusions guide

Every SAM-registered firm authorized to do business with the US federal government. ~873K legal entities, ~880K registrations. Lookup by UEI or CAGE; search by name. Returns registration status, expiration date, address, NAICS, PSC, business-type certifications, CAGE codes. Refreshed monthly.

What you can build

• Compliance check before contract sign-off (active? expiring?)
• CRM enrichment: paste a UEI, populate name, address, NAICS, certifications
• Vendor-onboarding form auto-fill from UEI
• UEI-to-CAGE bridge for legacy DoD systems
• CAGE reverse lookup (packing slip has a CAGE, who is this)

Endpoints

GET /api/v1/entities/{uei}
GET /api/v1/entities/by-cage/{cage_code}
GET /api/v1/entities/search?q=NAME

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  "https://govconapi.com/api/v1/entities/XX2WFHJEFB45"

API reference · UEI Lookup guide · CAGE Code Lookup guide

Contracting officer contact info embedded on every contract notice: name, email, phone, title. The contacts come free with each opportunity you query, on every tier. Pro Bundle adds unlimited access to extended profiles via GovCon Contacts: past performance per CO, full profiles, deeper search.

What you can build

• BD outreach tools surfacing the right CO for a NAICS or agency
• Contract administration workflows with CO contact pre-filled
• "Who buys what" intelligence: which COs run the most notices in your space

Endpoints

Embedded in /api/v1/opportunities/* responses (all tiers, free)
Extended profiles at contacts.govconapi.com (Pro Bundle, unlimited)

API reference

SOWs, RFP documents, amendments, and supporting files for every contract notice that has them. Direct download URLs. Filter to find only notices with attachments.

What you can build

• Document analysis pipelines (OCR, LLM extraction)
• Proposal preparation: download all amendments to a solicitation in one call
• "Has attachments" filtering to skip notices without docs

Endpoints

GET /api/v1/opportunities/{notice_id}/attachments
Filter: has_attachments=true on /opportunities/search (Developer)

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  "https://govconapi.com/api/v1/opportunities/{notice_id}/attachments"

API reference