Capabilities

Combined SAM registration profile + award history per UEI in one call. Returns 200 for any of the ~873K SAM-registered firms (not just the ~11K that have won contracts). Award fields populate when the UEI has Award Notices on file; otherwise they zero out and the registration / entity blocks still populate.

What you can build

• Compliance + due diligence in one call (active, expiration, totals, top agencies, top NAICS)
• Customer concentration analysis via top_agencies
• Pipeline health checks (awards_last_90d vs awards_last_12mo)
• Capability mapping via top_naics (what they win, not what they claim)
• Peer / competitor discovery via /peers ranked by NAICS + agency overlap

Endpoints

GET /api/v1/companies/{uei}
GET /api/v1/companies/{uei}/awards
GET /api/v1/companies/{uei}/peers
GET /api/v1/companies/search?q=NAME

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  "https://govconapi.com/api/v1/companies/XX2WFHJEFB45"
# → { "uei": "...", "name": "...", "total_awards": 868,
#     "top_agencies": [...], "registration": {...}, "entity": {...} }

API reference · Company Intelligence API guide

Multi-filter search across the SAM directory by NAICS, state, business-type certification, active-status, and name. The DSBS replacement: SBA's Dynamic Small Business Search has the data but is web-only with no API. This endpoint exposes the same filtering programmatically.

What you can build

• Set-aside competition mapping before bidding an 8(a) or WOSB RFP
• Subcontractor sourcing by NAICS + state + cert combinations
• Procurement market sizing (pagination.total returns exact firm count)
• Diversity-spend reporting feeds for prime contractor compliance teams
• Sources Sought distribution lists for federal program offices
• Auto-generated long-tail directory pages on your own site

Endpoints

GET /api/v1/entities/search?q=NAME             # Developer (name only)
GET /api/v1/entities/search?naics=&state=&business_type=&active_only=  # Pro

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  "https://govconapi.com/api/v1/entities/search?state=CA&business_type=8W&active_only=true"
# → 10,172 California-based WOSB firms

Try the free search → · API reference · Search API guide

Active SAM registrations expiring within N days, sorted by urgency. Filter by state or NAICS. The renewal-monitoring use case: SAM registrations expire annually; lapsed registrations make a firm invisible to contracting officers and ineligible for award.

What you can build

• Compliance dashboards flagging subcontractors whose SAM lapses in N days
• Renewal-reminder SaaS with targeted email campaigns
• BD pipeline early-warning (a firm not renewing = opportunity for replacement)
• Renewal-services consulting lead generation by state + NAICS
• Internal supplier-onboarding workflow with quarterly check on approved suppliers

Endpoints

GET /api/v1/entities/expiring?within_days=N&state=&naics=

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  "https://govconapi.com/api/v1/entities/expiring?within_days=30&state=DC&limit=20"
# → 391 DC-based firms expiring in next 30 days, most-urgent first

API reference · Expiration Checker guide

7-signal screening per UEI. Beyond a single-UEI exclusion check: address-cluster, name-variant cluster, coordinated enforcement-wave membership, last-award-to-debarment timing, and more. Plus a triage verdict for fast classification.

What you can build

• Subcontractor vetting workflows for prime contractors
• Bulk vendor screening (POST up to 100 UEIs per request)
• "Why is this risky" explanations: each signal returns underlying records
• Pattern-detection dashboards (DLA enforcement waves)
• Compliance reports for FAR-driven supplier reviews

Endpoints

GET  /api/v1/vendor-risk/{uei}
POST /api/v1/vendor-risk/bulk

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  "https://govconapi.com/api/v1/vendor-risk/N4PXS6S8HNU4"
# → { "triage": {"verdict": "high", ...}, "signals": [...] }

API reference · Vendor Risk Intelligence API guide · Free public lookup

Every FFATA Section 2 report: who paid whom under each prime contract. Map any prime's supply chain, see the real federal revenue of small businesses (sub income is often the larger half), trace prime-to-sub flow per contract. Coverage today: FY2025 + FY2026 (October 2024 onward) from USAspending, refreshed daily.

What you can build

• Supply-chain maps for any prime contractor (subs paid, top counterparties, dollar flow)
• True-revenue picture for SMBs (combined prime + sub revenue, with concentration ratio)
• Set-aside flow-down compliance reviews (where did the small-business set-aside dollars actually go?)
• Compliance smoking-gun screens: surface excluded entities that are still receiving sub payments
• M&A diligence on a target's customer concentration and counterparty risk

Endpoints

GET /api/v1/subawards/search                       # filter by prime UEI, sub UEI, PIID, agency, NAICS
GET /api/v1/subawards/{subaward_sam_report_id}     # single FFATA report
GET /api/v1/companies/{uei}/subawards              # subs paid by this prime
GET /api/v1/companies/{uei}/prime-relationships    # primes that paid this sub

Plus inline enrichment on existing endpoints

Pro responses on /contracts/{piid}, /companies/{uei}, /entities/{uei}, /vendor-risk/{uei}, and /exclusions/{uei_sam} add subaward context inline so you don't need a second round-trip. The PIID join on /contracts/{piid} is dense (~88% of FY2025+ subaward filings match a prime contract row). FPDS prime contract context lands on the same surfaces in parallel: fpds_obligated_total, fpds_distinct_contracts, and fpds_top_agencies on /companies/{uei} and /entities/{uei}; a contract_exposure block on /vendor-risk/{uei}; a recent_contract_actions block on /exclusions/{uei_sam} for the "is this excluded UEI still being paid directly?" question. Silently omitted on non-Pro keys; existing integrations keep working unchanged.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  "https://govconapi.com/api/v1/companies/ZMXAHH8M8VL8/subawards?limit=20"
# → { "summary": { "prime_name": "OSHKOSH DEFENSE, LLC",
#                  "total_subaward_amount": 413361154,
#                  "distinct_sub_vendors": 264,
#                  "distinct_prime_contracts": 372, ... }, ... }

API reference · Subawards API guide