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Federal Award Intelligence — Who's Winning, USASpending.gov

Who's already winning federal contracts in your NAICS code, and how much — from USASpending.gov's free, keyless official data. The complement to the Grant/RFP Opportunity Radar: that shows what's open to bid, this shows who's already won.

Federal Award Intelligence — Who's Winning, USASpending.gov returns 14 documented output fields, including recipient, totalAmount, awardCount, agencies and matchedOn. Every field carries a declared type, a written description and an example value. 23 runs are recorded on Apify.

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14
Output fields
4
Inputs
23
Runs
2026-10-16
Last run

01 — output

What it returns

Every field the extractor writes to its dataset, with its type, a written description and an example value.

FieldTypeWhat it holdsExample
recipientstringnullMessage recipient.<recipient>
totalAmountnumbernullTotal monetary amount, including any additional charges.0
awardCountintegernullHow many awards were recorded.0
agenciesstringnullAgencies involved in this record.<agencies>
matchedOnstringnullWhich field matched.title
awardIdstringnullIdentifier of the award.<awardId>
amountnumbernullMonetary amount, in the currency given by the currency field.0
agencystringnullAgency the record belongs to.<agency>
startDatestringnullISO 8601 start of the period this record covers.<startDate>
endDatestringnullISO 8601 end of the period this record covers.<endDate>
descriptionstringnullDescription of this record, as published by the source.<description>
usaspendingUrlstringnullUsaspending Url as recorded for this row.<usaspendingUrl>
statusstringnullOutcome recorded for this row.ok
verdictstringnullThe Actor's conclusion for this row, stated in words.pass

02 — sample

One record

Assembled from the example values declared on the schema above, not invented at render time.

{
  "recipient": "<recipient>",
  "totalAmount": 0,
  "awardCount": 0,
  "agencies": "<agencies>",
  "matchedOn": "title",
  "awardId": "<awardId>",
  "amount": 0,
  "agency": "<agency>"
}

03 — input

What you give it

InputTypeDescription
searchesarrayrequiredOne or more searches, each with a NAICS code and/or keyword, plus optional agency. Example: [{"naicsCode": "541512"}]
outputModestringoptional'competitors' aggregates awards by recipient into a ranked who's-winning table (the main product). 'awards' returns individual award rows instead.
daysBackintegeroptionalHow many days of award activity to search, up to 5 years. Filters by recent activity (including contract modifications), not just original award date.
maxAwardsPerSearchintegeroptionalHow many USASpending results to pull per search.

04 — run

Run Federal Award Intelligence on your own input

It runs in the cloud on Apify. Nothing to install, and you are billed per result returned rather than per attempt.

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05 — questions

Asked before running it

14 of 14 fields described

What does Federal Award Intelligence — Who's Winning, USASpending.gov return?
It returns 14 documented output fields: recipient, totalAmount, awardCount, agencies, matchedOn, awardId, amount, agency, startDate, endDate, description and usaspendingUrl. Each field declares its type, a description of what it holds, and an example value. The remaining 2 are listed in the output schema below.
What input does Federal Award Intelligence — Who's Winning, USASpending.gov require?
searches is required. A further 3 inputs are optional. The full input schema, with types and defaults, is below.
Does Federal Award Intelligence — Who's Winning, USASpending.gov need an API key or login?
No. None of its inputs is a credential, and it reads only public data. Nothing to sign up for before the first run.
How do I run Federal Award Intelligence — Who's Winning, USASpending.gov?
It runs on Apify. Start it from its listing with the inputs above, or call the Apify API with the Actor's ID. Results land in a dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read through the Apify API into your own pipeline.