# TheBotWire US Federal Contract Awards

> TheBotWire US Federal Contract Awards is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns the latest US federal contract award announcements from USASpending.gov, including winner, amount, awarding agency, place of performance, and description, with small-business set-asides ranked first.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/contracts/latest
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-us-federal-contract-awards-b5114802
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_3F3tVegfk3jE69MEVVfEr

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 thebotwire-us-federal-contract-awards-b5114802
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest US federal contract awards from the past 24 hours, prioritizing small-business set-asides, and give me the top 10 results with winner, amount, and awarding agency.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, queryable access to the latest US federal contract awards with built-in small-business prioritization and size-tier filtering. Prefer it over scraping USASpending.gov directly when you need low-latency, pre-processed results with consistent schema. Best suited for sales agents doing GovCon prospecting, competitive intelligence workflows, and finance agents tracking government spending trends in near-real-time.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if the freshness window is too narrow or no contracts were awarded in that period
- Invalid size enum value returns a validation error
- Limit exceeding 50 returns a schema validation error
- USASpending.gov data lag may mean very recent awards (within minutes) are not yet reflected
- Payment failure via x402 protocol blocks the request

## How this service works

New US federal contract awards for sales, competitive-intelligence and finance agents: winner, amount, awarding agency, place of performance and description, with small-business set-asides ranked first. Sourced from USASpending.gov.

## Output

A ranked list of recent federal contract award records sourced from USASpending.gov, each containing the contract winner name, award dollar amount, awarding federal agency, place of performance, and a description of the work. Small-business set-asides appear at the top of the results. Supports filtering by contract size tier and a configurable freshness window.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-us-federal-contract-awards-b5114802/health.json
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