Feed · USAspending File F · $0.05 per 1,000-row page
Subawards (File F)
The new-to-govcon growth signal, straight from USAspending's File F prime→sub cascade. Each row is a federal subaward — the sub-recipient, the prime it cascaded from, the agency, amount (and a banded size bucket), NAICS, and date. Set new_only=true to isolate first-time subawardees: companies breaking into federal work through subcontracts with no prime award on record. Rows come newest-first by action date. Observational public records as filed.
The debut, caught early. first_time_subawardee and recipient_first_subaward_date come from the File F recipient rollup — the up-and-comers one tier below the prime awards everyone watches.
Provenance
Every subaward, one flat row
- USAspending — subaward (File F / FSRS) recordsrefreshed weekly (per USAspending refresh)
The prime→sub cascade: when a prime wins federal work it flows subcontracts and subgrants down to sub-recipients. Each row is one subaward — sub-recipient and UEI, the prime, awarding agency, amount, NAICS, and place of performance. The first_time_subawardee flag (and new_only) surface a sub-recipient's debut in federal work — a company coming up through subcontracts with no prime award on record.
https://www.usaspending.gov
Banded amounts. amount carries the filed figure; amount_band is a coarse size bucket — a read on scale, never a spuriously precise claim.
Observational. A subaward appears with a sub-recipient, a prime, and an amount as filed — never a judgment of the sub.
Who buys this
Documented use cases
01GovCon BD / teaming
- Asks
- “Which companies just got their FIRST federal subaward — up-and-comers one tier down I can reach before the incumbents notice?”
- The feed returns
- First-time subawardees (new_only) with the sub-recipient, prime, agency, and banded amount — the moment funding cascades down.
- Action
- Open a teaming or subcontract-support conversation with a vendor just breaking into federal work.
02Staffing / B2B seller to contractors
- Asks
- “Which subs just landed funded federal work and need to deliver?”
- The feed returns
- Newest-first subawards by agency, NAICS, and size band — a dated funded-to-deliver signal.
- Action
- Reach a newly-funded sub with the staffing, tooling, or services it needs to perform.
03Equity / govcon research
- Asks
- “What does new-entrant formation in the federal supply chain look like?”
- The feed returns
- Every subaward with a stable event_key and first-time flag — drained by cursor, never restated.
- Action
- Track new-to-govcon formation as a leading supply-chain signal, clean and point-in-time.
Schema
Fields & sample rows
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| event_key | text | Stable dedupe / cursor key: subaward:<subaward_key>. |
| event_date | date | The subaward's action date (= action_date). The feed's `since` axis and sort key. |
| subawardee / sub_uei | text | Sub-recipient (subcontractor/subgrantee) name and SAM UEI. |
| prime / prime_uei | text | The prime recipient the work cascaded from, and its UEI. |
| awarding_agency / awarding_sub_agency | text | The federal agency behind the prime award. |
| subaward_type | text | sub-contract (procurement) | sub-grant (assistance). |
| amount | numeric | Subaward amount in USD, as filed. |
| amount_band | text | Coarse size bucket (e.g. $50K–$150K) — a banded read, never a precise claim. |
| naics / naics_desc / psc_code | text | Subaward NAICS/PSC where filed. |
| pop_state / pop_city | text | Place-of-performance location where filed. |
| first_time_subawardee | boolean | The sub-recipient has NO prime award on record — a new-to-govcon debut. |
| recipient_first_subaward_date / recipient_subaward_count | date / integer | The sub-recipient's first observed subaward date, and running subaward count. |
| as_published_date | date | Source-file vintage the row was last published in — rows are never restated. |
Full machine-readable endpoint definition (parameters, output shape, price) lives in the catalog at api.govparse.io/v1/catalog and in every Snowflake / Datarade listing.
| date | subawardee | prime | agency | amount | naics | first_time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-22 | ROLLINS COLLEGE | UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE | Department of Health and Human Services | < $50K | null | true |
| 2026-07-22 | TRENTON HEALTH TEAM INC. | HEALTH, NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF | Department of Health and Human Services | $50K–$150K | null | true |
| 2026-07-22 | BERGEN COUNTY HEALTH EDUCATION | HEALTH, NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF | Department of Health and Human Services | $50K–$150K | null | true |
Real rows from GET /v1/feeds/subawards?new_only=true (USAspending File F subawards as filed; columns abridged). Each row also carries the sub/prime UEIs, subaward_type, place of performance, and the recipient rollup.
Pricing & access
Three ways to buy
Self-serve API
$0.05 / page
up to 1,000 rows per page-call — live today
- Full feed, every filter, opaque keyset cursor
- Pay per use: x402 (USDC, no account) or a metered API key
- Signed _meta attestation and source vintages on every response
- No seat licenses, no minimums, no sales call
Enterprise
$10,000 / yr
flat annual license
- Bulk daily or weekly drops (CSV / Parquet) to your bucket
- Webhook alerts on new rows matching your saved filters
- Private Snowflake share of the same tables
- Email support and a named contact
Institutional
Private offer
the tier comparable products price at $40–85k/yr
- Everything in Enterprise
- Ticker/CIK-mapped rows — identifier-verified against the SEC registrant universe, match basis disclosed
- Point-in-time discipline: event_date + as_published_date on every row, no restatements, vintage history retained
- Delivery SLA, methodology documentation, and diligence support for your data-sourcing review
- $0.05 per page-call — each call returns up to 1,000 flat rows. Drain any window with repeated cursor calls; the opaque keyset cursor never skips or double-counts a row.
- Pay-per-use, two ways: x402 (USDC, no account needed — pay per request) or a metered API key with monthly billing.
- Warehouse-native delivery: the same feeds are listed on Datarade and coming to Snowflake Marketplace (listings submitted, in review) — enterprise buyers get a private Snowflake share today — plus CSV export for flat-file workflows.
- Full machine-readable endpoint definitions (parameters, output shape, prices) live in the catalog at api.govparse.io/v1/catalog; dataset license terms at api.govparse.io/v1/license/govcon.
curl "https://api.govparse.io/v1/feeds/subawards?new_only=true&naics=5415&since=2026-06-01&limit=500" \
-H "x-api-key: gp_live_..."GET https://api.govparse.io/v1/feeds/subawards
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