# ATS Jobs API – New Federal Contract Awards

> ATS Jobs API – New Federal Contract Awards is a paid API for AI agents from ats-jobs-api.groundtruthtools.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-01).

Returns recent federal contract awards over $1M, paginated, sourced fresh from USASpending.gov data within a rolling 30-day window.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://ats-jobs-api.groundtruthtools.workers.dev/x402/v1/new-federal-contracts?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-01
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ats-jobs-api-new-federal-contract-awards-0ad5e56c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_bltPKeplYq39pQiUypCbt

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability ats-jobs-api-new-federal-contract-awards-0ad5e56c
```

Example prompt: Pull up the latest federal contract awards over $1 million from the past 30 days — I want to see who won, which agency awarded it, and how much each contract is worth.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, paginated access to recent large federal contract awards (>$1M) with machine-readable fields like amount_usd, agency, and a direct verification URL. Prefer this over manual USASpending.gov searches when you need programmatic access, consistent JSON output, or want to integrate federal contract data into a workflow or monitoring pipeline. Not suitable for historical contract archives, small contracts under $1M, or grant data.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not included or invalid x402 payment header — returns 402 Payment Required
- Invalid page parameter (non-numeric or out-of-range) — may return empty results or error
- No awards in the current 30-day window — returns empty awards array with total_records: 0
- Upstream USASpending.gov data unavailable — may return stale or error response
- Rate limiting if many requests are made in rapid succession

## How this service works

Open job postings read first-hand from the applicant-tracking system behind a company's careers page: Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever or Workable. Includes a directory of 8532 company job boards, because none of the vendors publishes one. Salaries are parsed into numbers where the employer publishes them and refused where ambiguous. No personal data.

## Output

Returns a paginated JSON object containing: award metadata (award_id, recipient, amount_usd, start_date, end_date, description, awarding_agency, awarding_sub_agency, verify_url), page info (page, pages, page_size, total_records), dataset freshness (as_of date, window_days), and a count of companies in the dataset. Up to 500 records per page, covering awards within a rolling 30-day window.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "page": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "name": "New federal contract awards over $1M",
  "page": 1,
  "as_of": "2026-10-30",
  "niche": "new-federal-contracts",
  "pages": 1,
  "awards": [
   {
    "award_id": "36C10G27N0011",
    "end_date": "2027-10-31",
    "recipient": "EXAMPLE SERVICES LLC",
    "amount_usd": 2500000,
    "start_date": "2026-11-01",
    "verify_url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_36C10G27N0011_3600_36C10G26D0030_3600",
    "description": "CLAIMS SUPPORT SERVICES",
    "awarding_agency": "Department of Veterans Affairs",
    "awarding_sub_agency": "Department of Veterans Affairs"
   }
  ],
  "companies": 310,
  "page_size": 500,
  "window_days": 30,
  "total_records": 380
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/ats-jobs-api-new-federal-contract-awards-0ad5e56c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from ats-jobs-api.groundtruthtools.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/ats-jobs-api.groundtruthtools.workers.dev/llms.txt)