21,096

awards

$213.4B

obligated

3,664

unique recipients

agencies

Window 2026-07-31 to 2026-08-06 (rolling 7 days). Current as of the run finished 2026-08-06 09:42 UTC. See data/summary.json for the live window and totals — they roll forward daily.

What this is

USAspending.gov publishes every federal prime contract award since FY2008 through a public, unauthenticated JSON search API — no key, no login, no rate-limit registration. This dataset fetches a rolling recent window of contract awards daily, normalizes it, computes a few useful aggregates (by agency, by NAICS, top recipients), and commits the result, so you don't have to write your own pagination/retry logic against the raw API.

Scope and limits

Rolling 7-day window only — today back through 6 days ago (UTC), recalculated on every run. Not historical data and not a fixed calendar range; it shifts forward one day each run. Chosen over 30 days because a 30-day window routinely exceeds USAspending's reliable pagination limit for this endpoint.
Contracts only, no grants. Award type codes A/B/C/D (purchase orders, delivery orders, BPA calls, definitive contracts). Grant/assistance awards are out of scope.
awardAmount is obligated, not potential, value — what's been committed on this specific award transaction, not a contract ceiling or ask price. A row can represent one action on a much larger multi-year vehicle.
Sorted by awardAmount descending, capped for safety — if a window ever exceeds the fetcher's safety cap, the smallest awards are the ones dropped (check summary.json.hitPaginationCap, currently false).
No SAM.gov opportunities — this is awarded, obligated spending only, not open solicitations.
No personal data — only recipient organization name/UEI, never individual data.

Schema

Field	Type	Notes
`awardId`	string \| null	USAspending's Award ID (piid/fain)
`recipientName`	string \| null	Vendor/recipient legal name
`recipientUei`	string \| null	Unique Entity Identifier, when disclosed
`awardingAgency`	string \| null	Top-tier awarding agency
`awardingSubAgency`	string \| null	Sub-agency/component
`awardAmount`	number \| null	Obligated amount for this transaction — not a ceiling
`totalOutlays`	number \| null	Actual dollars disbursed to date, where reported
`awardType`	string \| null	e.g. "DEFINITIVE CONTRACT", "PURCHASE ORDER"
`naicsCode` / `naicsDescription`	string \| null	Industry classification
`pscCode` / `pscDescription`	string \| null	Product/Service Code
`placeOfPerformanceState` / `Country`	string \| null	Where the work is performed
`startDate` / `endDate`	string \| null	Award's period of performance
`description`	string \| null	USAspending's award description, as published
`usaspendingUrl`	string \| null	Direct link to the award's public page
`scrapedAt`	string	ISO timestamp of the fetch

Fields USAspending doesn't disclose come back as JSON null, never 0 or false.

Sample row

Real row from the current dataset — a typical small award, not the multi-billion-dollar outliers that appear near the top of the sorted file.

{
  "awardId": "47QSSC26P2BEP",
  "recipientName": "PREMIER & COMPANIES, INC.",
  "recipientUei": "CW8DULW78AZ4",
  "awardingAgency": "General Services Administration",
  "awardingSubAgency": "Federal Acquisition Service",
  "awardAmount": 437.89,
  "totalOutlays": null,
  "awardType": "PURCHASE ORDER",
  "naicsCode": "332216",
  "naicsDescription": "SAW BLADE AND HANDTOOL MANUFACTURING",
  "pscCode": "5180",
  "pscDescription": "SETS, KITS, AND OUTFITS OF HAND TOOLS",
  "placeOfPerformanceState": "NY",
  "placeOfPerformanceCountry": "UNITED STATES",
  "startDate": "2026-07-31",
  "endDate": "2026-08-30",
  "description": "CALIPER,DIAL/RETT CO. PN 120-12 (PARTIAL DESCRIPTION)",
  "usaspendingUrl": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_47QSSC26P2BEP_4732_-NONE-_-NONE-",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-06T09:42:10.583Z"
}

Using the data

curl

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ConorsCode/open-fedspend-data/main/data/awards.json | jq '.[0]'

pandas

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_json("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ConorsCode/open-fedspend-data/main/data/awards.json")
df.groupby("awardingAgency")["awardAmount"].sum().sort_values(ascending=False)

JavaScript

const awards = await fetch("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ConorsCode/open-fedspend-data/main/data/awards.json").then(r => r.json());
console.log(awards.length, "awards in this window");

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