# Saylor Innovations Data Desk – US Federal Contract & Grant Award Search

> Saylor Innovations Data Desk – US Federal Contract & Grant Award Search is a paid API for AI agents from saylorinnovations.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-18).

Search US federal contract and grant award records by keyword, returning recipient, agency, amount, dates, and description from USAspending.gov for the newest two fiscal years

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/gov/spending/awards?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-18
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-data-desk-us-federal-contract-grant-award-search-ff74fbce
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_tFKVv9_-AESnsjCCQpzQX

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 saylor-innovations-data-desk-us-federal-contract-grant-award-search-ff74fbce
```

Example prompt: Search USAspending.gov for federal contracts and grants mentioning 'quantum computing' — show me the top 10 most recent awards with recipient names, agencies, and dollar amounts.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to search US federal government contract and grant award records by keyword from the most recent two fiscal years, sourced from USAspending.gov. It is ideal for competitive intelligence, grant research, market sizing of government spending, and identifying federal agency procurement patterns. Prefer this over general web search when you need structured, authoritative spending data with amounts and recipient details rather than news or press releases.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'q' query parameter returns an error
- Overly generic keywords (e.g. 'the') may return too many loosely matched results
- Limit parameter outside 1-25 range may be rejected or clamped to defaults
- No matching awards for a specific niche keyword returns an empty awards array
- USAspending.gov upstream data lag may mean very recent awards are not yet indexed
- Data only covers the two most recent fiscal years — older awards will not be returned

## How this service works

US federal contract and grant award search by keyword - recipient, agency, amount, dates and description from USAspending.gov, newest two fiscal years

## Output

A JSON object containing the interpreted query string, an array of award records (each with recipient name, awarding agency, award amount, period of performance dates, description, and award type), total count of results returned, a flag indicating whether more results exist, the fiscal year period covered, and the data source attribution (USAspending.gov). An optional note field may include caveats about data interpretation.

## 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"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Keyword to match in award descriptions, e.g. solar"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional 1-25 (default 10)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "query",
      "awards"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "note": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Caveat or context for reading the result"
      },
      "count": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Number of items returned"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The query as the server interpreted it"
      },
      "awards": {
       "type": "array",
       "description": "Awards"
      },
      "period": {
       "type": "object",
       "description": "Period the figures cover"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Data source the values come from"
      },
      "has_more": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "True when this has more"
      },
      "award_type": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Award type"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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