US Federal Contractor Data — USAspending Recipient Profiles

If a company sells to the US government, USAspending has its full financial footprint. This actor turns company names into recipient profiles — UEI, parent company, lifetime federal obligations and the socio-economic business types that decide which set-aside contracts they can bid on.

No API key · Official source · Pay only for delivered rows · Same schema across the series

What data do you get?

Field	Description
companyName	Recipient name as registered on federal awards
registrationNumber	UEI — the SAM.gov unique entity identifier
duns	Legacy DUNS number where the record still carries one
recipientLevel	P parent, C child, R standalone recipient
totalObligations	Lifetime federal obligations to this recipient, USD
parentCompany	Parent recipient name and UEI
address	Registered business address
city	Business city
postalCode	Business ZIP
countryName	Business country
businessTypes	Socio-economic and set-aside categories — small business, woman-owned, veteran-owned, 8(a), HUBZone
alternateNames	Every other name this recipient has filed under
sourceUrl	USAspending recipient profile

Every row also carries query (what you asked for), scrapedAt (ISO timestamp) and, when a lookup fails, error explaining why.

Example output

{
  "country": "US",
  "registry": "USAspending.gov",
  "companyName": "THE BOEING COMPANY",
  "registrationNumber": "NU2UC8MX6NK1",
  "duns": "009256819",
  "recipientLevel": "P",
  "totalObligations": 27042872153.95,
  "city": "ARLINGTON",
  "countryName": "UNITED STATES",
  "businessTypes": [
    "category_business",
    "other_than_small_business"
  ],
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/419ccd27-d6f4-d363-aeaf-b9e2c3ae6f5d-P"
}

Input

{
  "queries": ["Boeing","Palantir","Booz Allen Hamilton"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 10,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "includeRaw": false
}

Input	What it does
queries	Company names as they appear on federal awards (Boeing, Booz Allen, Palantir). Matching is fuzzy — check companyName on the row before treating a match as exact.
maxResultsPerQuery	Caps how many rows one query may produce.
maxConcurrency	How many queries run at once. Lower it if the source starts throttling.
includeRaw	Attaches the source's untouched record under raw, for fields this actor does not map.
requestDelayMs	Politeness delay between requests.
proxyConfiguration	Optional. USAspending is an open federal API and rarely needs a proxy.

What people use it for

• GovCon competitive intelligence — size a competitor's federal book of business before bidding against them.
• Teaming partner search — the business-type flags tell you who qualifies as a small, 8(a) or woman-owned subcontractor.
• Supplier risk — check how dependent a supplier is on federal revenue.

Notes and limits

• USAspending models recipients as a hierarchy. The same company can appear as a parent and as several children; recipientLevel and parentCompany let you roll them up.
• totalObligations is lifetime, not annual. For year-by-year contract detail use the award-level actor in this series.

Where the data comes from

The US Treasury publishes USAspending as a documented open API with no key and no quota. Source: USAspending.gov API

FAQ

Is this USAspending contractor scraper free?

The data source is free and needs no API key — you pay only for the rows the run delivers ($0.004 each). Failed or empty lookups are never charged.

Do I need an API key or a login?

No. The US Treasury publishes USAspending as a documented open API with no key and no quota.

What can I search by?

By company name (Boeing, Deloitte). USAspending resolves names across its own recipient hierarchy, so you get the parent (-P), the child (-C) and the recipient (-R) levels where they exist.

How current is the data?

Every run queries the source live, so results are as fresh as the source itself. USAspending loads from the federal award systems daily.

How fast is it, and how many queries can I run?

Queries run concurrently (3 at a time by default, tunable in the input). A prefilled run finishes in seconds; large lists scale roughly linearly and stay well inside a normal run timeout.

Can I export the results to CSV, Excel or JSON?

Yes. Apify datasets export to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML and HTML, and can be pulled through the API or pushed to your own storage.

What happens when a query returns nothing?

You still get a row, carrying your original query and an error field explaining why. Nothing is silently dropped, and you are not charged for it.

Is scraping this data legal?

Yes. USAspending is the US government's own transparency portal for federal spending, published under the DATA Act specifically for public reuse.

Related actors

• US Federal Contract Award Data

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