# GovSpendPulse US Federal Contract Search

> GovSpendPulse US Federal Contract Search is a paid API for AI agents from govspendpulse.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.08/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Searches USASpending.gov federal contract awards by keyword, NAICS code, agency, or state and returns top award records with recipient, amount, agency, and period details.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://govspendpulse.vercel.app/api/govspend/us-contracts
- Price: $0.08/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/govspendpulse-us-federal-contract-search-2ac6c4c6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_sJUHNn75SJxAPj6MaWyVQ

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-us-federal-contract-search-2ac6c4c6
```

Example prompt: Search USASpending.gov for recent federal contract awards related to 'cybersecurity software' under NAICS code 541519 awarded by the Department of Defense in Virginia — I want to see the top recipients, award amounts, and contract periods so I can size the market.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to search across all US federal contract awards on USASpending.gov by keyword, NAICS code, agency, or state. Prefer this over the sibling competitor-intelligence or agency-profile endpoints when your goal is broad market discovery rather than deep dives on specific agencies or competitors. Ideal for business development teams sizing federal market opportunity or identifying potential teaming partners and incumbent contractors.

## Known failure modes

- No matching contracts found for given keyword or NAICS code — returns empty results
- Invalid NAICS code format returns an error
- USASpending.gov API downstream outage causes timeout or 503
- Overly broad keyword returns low-relevance or too many results
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 or 429 status

## How this service works

Federal contract / award search and government spending lookup by keyword, NAICS, agency, or state — real-time USASpending.gov data. Returns top awards with recipient, amount, agency, period, and vendor market intelligence, for business-development and market-intelligence agents.

## Output

Returns a list of top federal contract awards matching the query, each including recipient company name, total award amount, awarding agency, contract period of performance, and vendor market intelligence summary for business development use.

## 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",
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "en | es | fr | de | ja | zh | ko | pt | ar (default: en)"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Awards to return, 1-20 (default 10). Pay-per-award via the upto scheme: $0.03 + $0.0025/award (10 awards = $0.055); exact-scheme payments are flat $0.08."
      },
      "naics": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "NAICS code — e.g. 541512 (computer systems design) | 541330 (engineering) | 236220 (commercial construction)"
      },
      "state": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "two-letter US state code — e.g. VA | CA | TX | MD"
      },
      "keyword": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "search term — e.g. \"cybersecurity\" | \"cloud computing\" | \"management consulting\" | \"construction\""
      },
      "year_from": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "fiscal year start — e.g. 2024 | 2025 (default: prior year)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "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_awards": [
   {
    "type": "Delivery Order",
    "naics": "541512",
    "state": "VA",
    "agency": "Department of Defense",
    "period": "2025-03-01 to 2026-02-28",
    "recipient": "Booz Allen Hamilton",
    "amount_usd": 48200000,
    "sub_agency": "DISA",
    "description": "Zero trust architecture implementation and SOC operations"
   }
  ],
  "market_signal": "DoD cybersecurity spending surged 22% YoY driven by zero trust mandates. DISA and NSA are the dominant buyers.",
  "query_summary": {
   "period": "2025-01-01 to 2026-06-07",
   "keyword": "cybersecurity",
   "naics_code": "541512",
   "total_awards_returned": 10
  },
  "vendor_insight": "Small business set-asides account for ~18% of awards in this NAICS — most opportunities are unrestricted full-and-open.",
  "spending_summary": {
   "top_agency": "Department of Defense",
   "top_recipient": "Booz Allen Hamilton",
   "total_value_usd": 312000000,
   "average_award_usd": 31200000
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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