Plumbline / Federal contract awards

US federal contract awards by recipient, industry or place

Find US federal contract actions (awards and modifications) by vendor name, NAICS industry code, place-of-performance state and fiscal year, from FPDS, the government's contract reporting system.

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Describe the lookup you need.

What it is for

A firm deciding whether to pursue federal work, size a competitor's government business or find prime contractors to subcontract under needs the contracts actually awarded, with obligated amounts, agencies and industry codes. This searches the Federal Procurement Data System, where agencies report every contract action, and returns the matching actions.

Who uses it

Business development staff at government contractors, subcontractors looking for primes, and analysts sizing a market segment's federal spend.

What you get

A JSON answer with up to ten contract actions and the start of the next page, each with its contract number (PIID), modification number, signed date, vendor, department and agency, obligated amount, total obligated on the contract, base and all options value, NAICS code and description, place-of-performance state, description and FPDS link.

Who runs it, and what it costs

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Free to use within a daily allowance; sending a requirement is free.

Scope

United States federal agencies; recipients anywhere.

Contract actions only; grants and loans are not included.
Open solicitations are not covered (they are on SAM.gov).
Amounts are obligations as reported to FPDS, not payments; a modification can obligate a negative amount.

Sources

FPDS publishes contract actions through a public ATOM feed searchable by vendor, NAICS code, place of performance and signed date. www.fpds.gov

For developers and agents

Send the same requirement as JSON to POST /federal-awards/requests (schema: /federal-awards/schema.json), or call the submit_request tool on the MCP endpoint at https://plumbline.forevenza.com/mcp. This page as Markdown: index.md.

{
  "action": "retrieve",
  "need": "List Booz Allen Hamilton's largest federal contract awards in fiscal 2026.",
  "specifications": {
    "recipient": "Booz Allen Hamilton",
    "fiscal_years": "2026"
  }
}

`GET /federal-awards/op/search`

Up to ten federal contract actions matching vendor, NAICS, place-of-performance state and fiscal year, from FPDS, with the start of the next page. Free, within a daily allowance.

Parameter	Type	Meaning
`recipient`	string	Vendor name text, as reported to FPDS
`naics`	string	NAICS code
`state`	string	Place-of-performance state, two letters
`fiscal_year`	integer	Federal fiscal year
`start`	integer	Where the page starts: 0, 10, 20 and so on

Example answer:

{
  "filters": {
    "recipient": "LOCKHEED MARTIN",
    "fiscal_year": 2025,
    "signed_between": [
      "2024/10/01",
      "2025/09/30"
    ]
  },
  "actions": [
    {
      "piid": "0001",
      "modification": "10",
      "signed_date": "2025-01-28",
      "vendor": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION (3632)",
      "department": "DEPT OF DEFENSE",
      "agency": "DEFENSE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT AGENCY (DCMA)",
      "obligated_amount": -466098.9,
      "total_obligated_amount": 1964384.2,
      "base_and_all_options_value": -466098.9,
      "naics": "334419",
      "naics_description": "OTHER ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MANUFACTURING",
      "place_of_performance_state": "NY",
      "description": "UNDEFINITIZED ORDER",
      "url": "https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/search.do?s=FPDS&indexName=awardfull&templateName=1.5.3&q=0001+9700+"
    }
  ],
  "next_start": 10,
  "note": "Each item is one contract action as reported to FPDS (an award or a modification): obligated_amount is that action's, total_obligated_amount the contract's to date. Results come in FPDS order, not by amount.",
  "source": "https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAME=PUBLIC&q=VENDOR_NAME%3A%22LOCKHEED%20MARTIN%22%20SIGNED_DATE%3A%5B2024%2F10%2F01%2C2025%2F09%2F30%5D&start=0"
}

Sources: Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) public ATOM feed (US government work, public). Limits: ten contract actions per answer; page with start; contract actions in FPDS order, not sorted by amount; without a fiscal year, actions signed in the last twelve months.