Us Awards Search
by usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app in Search & web
Search US federal awards from USAspending.gov (official Treasury data): contracts, IDVs, grants or loans by keyword, recipient name, awarding agency, NAICS and date range. Returns award ID, recipient, UEI, amount, agency, sub-agency, dates, description, place of performance and links. Use when you need to know who wins US federal contracts or grants (competitors, partners, sales leads) or what a given company has been awarded, by keyword, recipient, agency, NAICS or date.
https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/v1/us-awards/search- Price
- $0.02
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 198 ms
- 269 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 5 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/v1/us-awards/search
Each call costs $0.02 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
GET https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/v1/us-awards/search?award_type=contracts&query=cybersecurityParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
agency | string | No | Awarding top-tier agency name, e.g. 'Department of Defense' |
award_type | string | No | contracts (default), idvs, grants or loans |
days | integer | No | Look-back days by action date (default 365, max 3650) |
limit | integer | No | Max awards 1-50 (default 20) |
naics | string | No | Comma-separated NAICS codes (2-6 digits) |
query | string | No | Keywords in award description |
recipient | string | No | Recipient (company) name contains |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 27 lines
{
"awards": [
{
"amount": 52405513,
"award_id": "HQ085722F8003",
"awarding_agency": "Department of Defense",
"awarding_sub_agency": "Missile Defense Agency",
"description": "...",
"end_date": "2027-02-28",
"place_of_performance": {
"country": "USA",
"state": "AL"
},
"recipient": "AMENTUM TECHNOLOGY, INC.",
"recipient_uei": "...",
"start_date": "2022-03-01",
"url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_..."
}
],
"legal": {
"privacy": "https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/privacy",
"terms": "https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/terms"
},
"returned": 1,
"status": "ok",
"use_when": "Use when you need to know who wins US federal contracts or grants (competitors, partners, sales leads) or what a given company has been awarded, by keyword, recipient, agency, NAICS or date."
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.02.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/v1/us-awards/search?award_type=contracts&query=cybersecurity'
# 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://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/v1/us-awards/search?award_type=contracts&query=cybersecurity' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// 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 $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
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 $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fusaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app%2Fv1%2Fus-awards%2Fsearch
const res = await pay("https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/v1/us-awards/search?award_type=contracts&query=cybersecurity");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# 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 $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/v1/us-awards/search?award_type=contracts&query=cybersecurity")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
No findings
We scan names, descriptions and tool definitions for hidden instructions and other prompt-injection patterns.
Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 h ago | Passed | 402 | 179 ms | $0.02 |
| 10 h ago | Passed | 402 | 198 ms | $0.02 |
| 14 h ago | Passed | 402 | 269 ms | $0.02 |