# ForgeMesh Federal Contracts Search

> ForgeMesh Federal Contracts Search is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Search US government contract awards by recipient company name, returning award details including amount, agency, period of performance, and links to full records on USAspending.gov

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/federal-contracts-search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-federal-contracts-search-87cb509c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rhSRXCi92n4xcjswJZuWR

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 forgemesh-federal-contracts-search-87cb509c -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull up the top 10 federal contracts awarded to Palantir Technologies from the Department of Defense since January 2020 — I want the award amounts, agencies, and links to the full records.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, filterable federal contract data for a specific company — especially for due diligence, competitive intelligence, or accountability research. Prefer this over manual USAspending.gov searches when you need machine-readable results with filtering by agency and date window. It is well-suited for agents that need to programmatically analyze government contract history without navigating the USAspending.gov UI.

## Known failure modes

- Recipient name too short (under 3 characters) returns a validation error
- No matching awards found returns an empty awards array
- Agency name not recognized or misspelled may return zero results
- Date range too narrow may return no results
- Network or upstream USAspending.gov API unavailability causes request failure
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient

## How this service works

Federal contract awards by company: search US government contract awards won by any recipient — award id, amount, awarding agency and sub-agency, period of performance, and a plain-language description with a link to the full award record. Optional agency and date-window filters. Sorted by award amount. For due-diligence, competitive-intel, and accountability agents.

## Output

A JSON object containing the recipient query, a list of matching contract awards (each with award ID, recipient name, award amount in USD, awarding agency, awarding sub-agency, start date, end date, a plain-language description of the work, and a direct link to the full record on USAspending.gov), the count of returned results, and an attribution to USAspending.gov. Results are sorted by award amount descending.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 50,
   "minimum": 1
  },
  "since": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "ISO start date (default: 2 years back)"
  },
  "until": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "ISO end date (default: today)"
  },
  "agency": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "awarding top-tier agency name, e.g. 'Department of Defense'"
  },
  "recipient": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "company name, min 3 chars (required)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "query": {
   "recipient": "Palantir"
  },
  "awards": [
   {
    "award_id": "W56KGY18C0184",
    "end_date": "2026-03-08",
    "award_url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_...",
    "recipient": "PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.",
    "amount_usd": 823000000,
    "start_date": "2018-03-09",
    "description": "ARMY INTELLIGENCE DATA PLATFORM",
    "awarding_agency": "Department of Defense",
    "awarding_sub_agency": "Department of the Army"
   }
  ],
  "returned": 5,
  "attribution": "USAspending.gov (public domain)"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-federal-contracts-search-87cb509c/health.json
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