# GovSpendPulse Competitor Awards Analysis

> GovSpendPulse Competitor Awards Analysis is a paid API for AI agents from govspendpulse.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.15/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns top federal contract winners, market concentration, opportunity gaps, and set-aside landscape for a given market segment from USASpending.gov data

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://govspendpulse.vercel.app/api/govspend/competitor-awards
- Price: $0.15/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/govspendpulse-competitor-awards-analysis-5d13df5c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_VchBGtHU6quqzumFdzIVt

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 govspendpulse-competitor-awards-analysis-5d13df5c
```

Example prompt: Who's winning the most federal IT services contracts in NAICS 541512 over the last fiscal year — show me the top vendors, how concentrated the market is, any opportunity gaps, and what the set-aside breakdown looks like?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need competitive market intelligence about who is winning federal contracts in a specific industry segment, NAICS code, or agency domain. Prefer this over a general contract search endpoint when the goal is benchmarking, competitive positioning, or understanding market share rather than finding specific opportunities to bid on.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized NAICS code returns empty results or error
- Very narrow market segments may return insufficient data for meaningful concentration analysis
- USASpending.gov data lag may mean very recent awards are not reflected
- Overly broad keyword queries may return noisy, unfocused results
- Rate limiting or payment failure may return 402 or 429 status

## How this service works

Federal contractor / vendor competitive intelligence and market-share analysis — who is winning federal contracts in your market. Returns top vendors by total awards, market-concentration analysis, opportunity gaps, and set-aside landscape from USASpending.gov, for business-development and market-intelligence agents.

## Output

A structured report containing ranked list of top vendors by total federal award dollars, market concentration analysis (e.g. Herfindahl index or top-N share), identified opportunity gaps in the market segment, and a breakdown of the set-aside landscape (8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, HUBZone, etc.), all sourced from USASpending.gov data.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
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   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
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    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "en | es | fr | de | ja | zh | ko | pt | ar (default: en)"
      },
      "naics": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "NAICS code to narrow results — e.g. 541512 | 541330 | 493110"
      },
      "keyword": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "(required) market keyword — e.g. \"cybersecurity\" | \"cloud computing\" | \"logistics\" | \"engineering services\""
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "top_vendors": [
   {
    "rank": 1,
    "company": "Booz Allen Hamilton",
    "award_count": 148,
    "business_size": "Large",
    "key_contracts": [
     "DOMEX",
     "SETA support",
     "zero trust task order"
    ],
    "market_share_pct": 18.4,
    "primary_agencies": [
     "DoD",
     "NSA",
     "DHS"
    ],
    "total_awards_usd": 3200000000
   },
   {
    "rank": 2,
    "company": "Leidos",
    "award_count": 97,
    "business_size": "Large",
    "key_contracts": [
     "NGEN-R"
    ],
    "market_share_pct": 12.1,
    "primary_agencies": [
     "DoD",
     "IC"
    ],
    "total_awards_usd": 2100000000
   }
  ],
  "opportunity_gaps": [
   {
    "agency": "USDA",
    "estimated_value": "$120M+",
    "gap_description": "USDA cybersecurity spend growing but no dominant incumbent — 3 vendors share $120M"
   }
  ],
  "market_definition": {
   "keyword": "cybersecurity",
   "naics_code": "541512",
   "period_analyzed": "FY2024–FY2025"
  },
  "set_aside_landscape": {
   "8a_pct": "8%",
   "wosb_pct": "3%",
   "sdvosb_pct": "4%",
   "hubzone_pct": "2%",
   "small_business_pct": "21%"
  },
  "market_concentration": {
   "top5_share_pct": 52,
   "herfindahl_index_est": "Moderate (~1200)",
   "market_characterization": "Moderately competitive"
  },
  "market_entry_verdict": "Moderate - room for challengers",
  "competitive_positioning": "Market is moderately competitive with established large primes, but USDA and HHS show clear gaps for new entrants."
 }
}
```

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