Public Sector

SAM.gov APIs

System for Award Management (SAM.gov), the U.S. federal procurement and financial assistance system, exposes 11 production APIs catalogued at open.gsa.gov including Entity Management, Exclusions, Federal Hierarchy (Public and FOUO variants), Contract Opportunities (Get Opportunities Public, Opportunity Management), Contract Awards, Product Service Codes, Public Location Services, Assistance Listings Public, Subaward Reporting (Acquisition and Assistance), and Entity/Exclusions Extracts Download. Auth via api.data.gov key.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://open.gsa.gov/api/
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Authentication
https://api.data.gov/signup/

Other Resources

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Portal
https://sam.gov

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: SAM.gov APIs
description: System for Award Management (SAM.gov), the U.S. federal procurement and financial assistance
  system, exposes 11 production APIs catalogued at open.gsa.gov including Entity Management, Exclusions,
  Federal Hierarchy (Public and FOUO variants), Contract Opportunities (Get Opportunities Public, Opportunity
  Management), Contract Awards, Product Service Codes, Public Location Services, Assistance Listings Public,
  Subaward Reporting (Acquisition and Assistance), and Entity/Exclusions Extracts Download. Auth via api.data.gov
  key.
humanURL: https://sam.gov
baseURL: https://api.sam.gov
tags:
- Federal
- Procurement
- SAM.gov
- Entity
- Exclusions
- Opportunities
- api.data.gov
properties:
- type: Portal
  url: https://sam.gov
- type: Documentation
  url: https://open.gsa.gov/api/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://api.data.gov/signup/