Awesome Procurement Data

Carefully curated list of awesome US federal government procurement data resources.

The US Federal Government obligates something like $1 trillion each year through federal contracts. It also generates a ton of data about federal procurement. This list attempts to create access to the APIs, utilities, and systems that power the federal #govcon landscape.

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Contents

• Official Government Resources
• Utilities and Client Libraries
• Data Science

Official Government Resources

• SAM.gov Entity/Exclusions Extracts Download APIs - The API that allows access to SAM.gov's entity information
• SAM.gov Opportunities API - All the federal contract opportunities in SAM.gov
• CALC API - Labor Rates from GSA's eight GSA professional services schedules
• FPDS API - The XML feed we all know and... well, we know it anyway...
• USASpending - Maybe the GOAT of GovCon APIs?
• SBIR API - An API that powers the SBIR.gov website
• FAR - The FAR in various formats (including XML, ePub, docx, and PDF)
• Acquisition Gateway Document Library API - Structured data that for documents on the Acquisition Gateway (May not be publicly accessible).

Utilities and Client Libraries

• FPDS - Accessing the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) ATOM feed in Python and a CLI
• PSC Selection Tool - An API maintained by the Defense Pricing and Contracting (DPC) office for accessing NAICS and PSC codes.
• FSCPSC - A "prediction engine" for NAICS and PSC codes. It has a cool API, too!
• pysam - A python wrapper over the SAM API
• SamDotNet - A C# wrapper over the SAM API
• procurement-tools - A python library for various procurement-related tasks
• The Pulse of GovCon's Part9 API - An API that consolidates opportunities from SAM.gov, Challenge.gov, Grants.gov and legacy FBO.gov
• Sec. 889 Compliance Tool - A library built by NASA to quickly determine Vendor 889 Compliance

Data science and other cool stuff

• David Gill's Acquisition Innovation repo - Structured transaction reports from USASpending.gov and some NLP utilities using R
• DIIG CSIS Lookup Tables - A bunch of tables used in procurement (including NAICS codes, contracting offices, etc)
• USASpending Bot - A slack bot that uses usaspending.gov's API to retrieve data on awarded contracts
• SAM.gov webscraper - Use Google Sheets to track SAM opportunities? Here's a tool for that