# VA Contract Awards Feed

> VA Contract Awards Feed is a paid API for AI agents from x402-factory.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns the latest Department of Veterans Affairs federal contract awards from USAspending, filtered and sorted newest first, with recipient, value, NAICS code, and award dates.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-factory.com/v1/contracts/awards/va
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/va-contract-awards-feed-f88860c6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_n6aazYF-WrqHaa1sQ5Cff

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 va-contract-awards-feed-f88860c6
```

Example prompt: Pull the 20 most recent Department of Veterans Affairs contract awards from USAspending, and filter to any awards made since January 1, 2025 with a minimum value of $50,000.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need Department of Veterans Affairs contract awards without needing to specify an agency filter yourself — it is pre-scoped to VA and saves a filter step compared to the generic /v1/contracts/awards endpoint. Prefer it for monitoring VA procurement activity, tracking specific vendors winning VA work, or analyzing VA spending by NAICS industry segment.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid date format for 'since' parameter returns a 400 validation error
- NAICS code not matching the required 2-6 digit pattern returns a validation error
- Limit value outside 1-50 range returns a validation error
- No awards matching the filter criteria returns an empty awards array
- USAspending upstream data lag may cause recently awarded contracts to not appear immediately

## How this service works

Latest Department of Veterans Affairs contract awards — Latest federal contract awards from Department of Veterans Affairs: recipient, value, NAICS, and award dates from USAspending, newest first. Same shape as /v1/contracts/awards, pre-filtered to Department of Veterans Affairs.

## Output

A JSON object containing an array of VA contract award records, each with vendor/recipient name, agency, sub-agency, contract description, award value in USD, award date, NAICS code, and place of performance, plus a metadata object. Results are sorted newest first and pre-filtered to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 20,
       "maximum": 50,
       "minimum": 1
      },
      "naics": {
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^\\d{2,6}$"
      },
      "since": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date",
       "pattern": "^(?:(?:\\d\\d[2468][048]|\\d\\d[13579][26]|\\d\\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])))$",
       "description": "Awards starting on/after this date"
      },
      "vendor": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 120,
       "minLength": 2,
       "description": "Substring match on recipient name"
      },
      "min_value_usd": {
       "type": "number",
       "minimum": 0
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "data",
      "meta"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "data": {
       "type": "object",
       "required": [
        "awards"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "awards": {
         "type": "array",
         "items": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
           "vendor",
           "agency",
           "description",
           "value_usd",
           "award_date"
          ],
          "properties": {
           "naics": {
            "type": "string"
           },
           "agency": {
            "type": "string"
           },
           "vendor": {
            "type": "string"
           },
           "value_usd": {
            "type": "number"
           },
           "award_date": {
            "type": "string"
           },
           "sub_agency": {
            "type": "string"
           },
           "description": {
            "type": "string"
           },
           "place_of_performance": {
            "type": "string"
      
… (truncated)
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "awards": []
  },
  "meta": {
   "docs": "https://x402-factory.com/docs/gov.awards.va",
   "sources": [
    "USAspending"
   ],
   "version": "1.0.0",
   "endpoint": "/v1/contracts/awards/va",
   "data_mode": "live",
   "freshness": "daily",
   "request_id": "req_00000000",
   "generated_at": "2026-08-21T03:58:58.072Z"
  }
 }
}
```

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