GovAI Contracts

A free, independent index of every U.S. federal AI / ML / data-science contract award and open opportunity.

• Live site: https://govai-contracts.nandanhegde1096.workers.dev/
• Data sources: USAspending.gov (awards) and SAM.gov (open opportunities) — both public domain
• Refresh cadence: every 6 hours via GitHub Actions cron
• License: MIT (code) · CC0 1.0 (dataset). See LICENSE.
• Free downloads: /export/all.csv · /export/all.json

Why

Federal AI contract intelligence is locked behind enterprise tools (Deltek GovWin, GovTribe, etc.) costing $10K–$30K/year. This site does the obvious thing the public APIs already enable: aggregate, filter, and make every AI/ML award searchable for free.

Stack

• Astro 5 — static site, file-based routing
• TypeScript
• USAspending.gov public API (no auth)
• SAM.gov opportunities API (free key, ~1k req/day)
• GitHub Actions scheduled cron (every 6h)
• Cloudflare Workers (free tier, static assets via wrangler deploy)

Local dev

npm install
npm run scrape         # awards → src/data/contracts.json
SAM_API_KEY=xxx npm run scrape:opps   # opportunities → src/data/opportunities.json
npm run dev            # http://localhost:4321
npm run build          # production build → dist/

How it works

1. scripts/scrape.ts queries USAspending.gov for awards in AI-relevant NAICS codes (541511, 541512, 541513, 541519, 541715, 518210).
2. It then filters by AI/ML keyword presence in each award's description (so generic IT contracts are excluded).
3. scripts/scrape-opportunities.ts does the same for active SAM.gov solicitations (last 60 days). Skips gracefully if SAM_API_KEY is not set or daily quota is exhausted.
4. Deduplicated results are written to src/data/contracts.json and src/data/opportunities.json.
5. Astro builds ~1,200+ static pages at build time:
   • / — landing + recent awards
   • /contracts/ — searchable list (URL-state filters)
   • /contracts/[id]/ — programmatic SEO detail page per award
   • /agencies/, /agencies/[slug]/, /agencies/[slug]/vendors/
   • /vendors/, /vendors/[slug]/
   • /naics/, /naics/[code]/, /naics/[code]/vendors/
   • /opportunities/, /opportunities/[id]/
   • /export/all.csv, /export/all.json, /export/{agency,vendor,naics}/{slug}.csv
   • /pricing/, /alerts/, /claim/, /about/
6. GitHub Actions reruns both scrapers every 6 hours and commits the refreshed datasets.

API quota usage (SAM.gov)

• Free public quota: 1,000 requests/day per IP
• Per cron run: 6 NAICS × up to 10 pages = ≤ 60 requests
• 4 runs/day = ~240 requests/day (~24% of quota). Headroom for backfills and retries.

Disclaimer

GovAI Contracts is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any U.S. government agency. Data is provided as-is for informational purposes.