# USASpending Federal Award Detail Lookup

> USASpending Federal Award Detail Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches full details of a single US federal award by its internal ID, including award type, description, obligations, dates, awarding agency hierarchy, and recipient information.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.agentstools.dev/govcon/award
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/usaspending-federal-award-detail-lookup-b48753f4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_RUbj_t1803Uqqy8DpHvsy

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 usaspending-federal-award-detail-lookup-b48753f4
```

Example prompt: I just found an award in the federal contracts search — can you pull the full detail for the one with generated_internal_id 'CONT_AWD_N0001924C0001_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-'? I want the recipient, total obligation, awarding agency, and dates.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint as the drill-down step after identifying an award from /govcon/awards search results. It is the right choice when you already have a generated_internal_id and need the complete award record including agency hierarchy, recipient lineage, obligation totals, and period of performance dates — rather than the summary fields returned by search.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unknown generated_internal_id returns a 404 or empty result
- Missing required generated_internal_id parameter causes a 400 validation error
- USASpending.gov upstream outage may result in a 502 or timeout
- Payment failure (x402) causes request to be rejected before processing

## How this service works

Get the full detail of one US federal award by its generated_internal_id (returned from /govcon/awards): award id, type, description, total obligation, dates, awarding agency hierarchy and recipient with parent. The drill-down step after a /govcon/awards search.

## Output

Returns a structured object with the award's full detail: award ID, type, description, total obligation amount, start and end dates, complete awarding agency hierarchy (agency, sub-agency, office), and recipient information including parent organization.

## 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",
     "required": [
      "generated_internal_id"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "generated_internal_id": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The award's generated_internal_id from /govcon/awards"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/usaspending-federal-award-detail-lookup-b48753f4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.agentstools.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.agentstools.dev/llms.txt)