Govspend Competitor Awards

{
  "competitive_positioning": "Market is moderately competitive with established large primes, but USDA and HHS show clear gaps for new entrants.",
  "market_concentration": {
    "herfindahl_index_est": "Moderate (~1200)",
    "market_characterization": "Moderately competitive",
    "top5_share_pct": 52
  },
  "market_definition": {
    "keyword": "cybersecurity",
    "naics_code": "541512",
    "period_analyzed": "FY2024–FY2025"
  },
  "market_entry_verdict": "Moderate - room for challengers",
  "opportunity_gaps": [
    {
      "agency": "USDA",
      "estimated_value": "$120M+",
      "gap_description": "USDA cybersecurity spend growing but no dominant incumbent — 3 vendors share $120M"
    }
  ],
  "set_aside_landscape": {
    "8a_pct": "8%",
    "hubzone_pct": "2%",
    "sdvosb_pct": "4%",
    "small_business_pct": "21%",
    "wosb_pct": "3%"
  },
  "top_vendors": [
    {
      "award_count": 148,
      "business_size": "Large",
      "company": "Booz Allen Hamilton",
      "key_contracts": [
        "DOMEX",
        "SETA support",
        "zero trust task order"
      ],
      "market_share_pct": 18.4,
      "primary_agencies": [
        "DoD",
        "NSA",
        "DHS"
      ],
      "rank": 1,
      "total_awards_usd": 3200000000
    },
    {
      "award_count": 97,
      "business_size": "Large",
      "company": "Leidos",
      "key_contracts": [
        "NGEN-R"
      ],
      "market_share_pct": 12.1,
      "primary_agencies": [
        "DoD",
        "IC"
      ],
      "rank": 2,
      "total_awards_usd": 2100000000
    }
  ]
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://govspendpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/govspend/competitor-awards?keyword=cybersecurity&lang=en&naics=541512'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://govspendpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/govspend/competitor-awards?keyword=cybersecurity&lang=en&naics=541512' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.15 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.15" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.15 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgovspendpulse.theaslangroupllc.com%2Fapi%2Fgovspend%2Fcompetitor-awards
const res = await pay("https://govspendpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/govspend/competitor-awards?keyword=cybersecurity&lang=en&naics=541512");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.15 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.15"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://govspendpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/govspend/competitor-awards?keyword=cybersecurity&lang=en&naics=541512")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)