# US Federal Contract Awards API (USAspending) A lead generation tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/digital_influx/us-federal-contracts ## What you need An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key. ## Inputs - `postedWithinDays` (integer): Signed within (days) (e.g. 7) - `states` (array): States (place of performance) - `naicsCodes` (array): NAICS codes - `pscCodes` (array): PSC codes - `agencies` (array): Awarding agencies - `keywords` (array): Keywords The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them. ## Price 5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities ## Run it 1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=US%20Federal%20Contract%20Awards%20API%20(USAspending) with Authorization: Bearer . Take the result named "US Federal Contract Awards API (USAspending)"; it carries a proxy_route. 2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header. 3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md