# GovParse VA Vendor Search — SDVOSB/VOSB Veteran-Owned Business Finder

> GovParse VA Vendor Search — SDVOSB/VOSB Veteran-Owned Business Finder is a paid API for AI agents from api.govparse.io, paid per call via x402, $1.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Search verified veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB/VOSB) by state, name, NAICS, UEI, minimum VA award dollars, or most-recent award date, returning vendor profiles, award footprints, and VA-won totals from public USAspending federal award records.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.govparse.io/v1/va/vendors/search
- Price: $1.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/govparse-va-vendor-search-sdvosb-vosb-veteran-owned-business-finder-735d5647
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_AePrcl41WIRIX4xhjdQIu

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 govparse-va-vendor-search-sdvosb-vosb-veteran-owned-business-finder-735d5647
```

Example prompt: Find me a list of SDVOSB-certified veteran-owned businesses in Virginia with at least $100,000 in VA awards, focused on IT services (NAICS 541), and show me up to 25 results — I'm looking for potential teaming partners for an upcoming VA set-aside bid.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to discover, vet, or build a target list of federally verified veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB/VOSB) based on actual federal award activity from USAspending — especially for set-aside teaming, competitive intelligence on VA contract incumbents, or seller targeting by geography, industry, and award volume. Prefer this over general SAM.gov lookups when you specifically need award-dollar context alongside certification status, or when you want to filter by VA-specific performance history.

## Known failure modes

- No vendors match the specified filters — returns empty result set
- Invalid NAICS prefix or state code — may return empty or error response
- UEI not found in award records — returns empty result
- min_va_award set too high — filters out all results
- since date in wrong format (not YYYY-MM-DD) — may cause parse error
- limit exceeds cap of 100 — capped or rejected
- Vendor appears in award records but certification flag not present — may not surface in certification-filtered query

## How this service works

Which verified veteran-owned businesses can I target or team with? Search SDVOSB / VOSB firms (from federal award records carrying the veteran-owned certification flag) by state, name, certification, NAICS, UEI, minimum dollars won FROM the VA, or most-recent award date (since). Returns the vendor, award footprint, VA-won total, and resolved entities-graph id — a seller target list AND a set-aside teaming signal. Public USAspending records; not a certification-status determination.

## Output

Returns a paginated list of vendor records, each including the vendor name, UEI, state, certification type (SDVOSB/VOSB), NAICS codes associated with their awards, total dollars won from the VA, most-recent award date, full award footprint, and a resolved entities-graph ID for cross-referencing. Data is sourced from public USAspending federal award records and does not constitute an authoritative certification-status determination.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [],
   "properties": {
    "uei": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "ZQGD2XIX75A5"
     ],
     "description": "Recipient Unique Entity Identifier (SAM UEI)."
    },
    "name": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "integrated"
     ],
     "description": "Vendor name fragment."
    },
    "limit": {
     "type": "integer",
     "examples": [
      25
     ],
     "description": "Max rows (default 25, cap 100)."
    },
    "naics": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "541"
     ],
     "description": "NAICS code prefix(es), CSV — matches any of the vendor's award NAICS."
    },
    "since": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "2025-01-01"
     ],
     "description": "Most recent award on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD)."
    },
    "state": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "VA"
     ],
     "description": "Vendor state code(s), CSV."
    },
    "offset": {
     "type": "integer",
     "examples": [
      0
     ],
     "description": "Rows to skip, for paging."
    },
    "min_va_award": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "100000"
     ],
     "description": "Minimum total $ this vendor has won FROM the VA."
    },
    "certification": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "sdvosb"
     ],
     "description": "sdvosb | vosb (CSV for both)."
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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