USE CASE:
Spotting a business that just won public money
Everything below is about spotting a business that just won public money, and about which public awards method holds up on a list rather than one record. Mamba Labs writes Apify actors for this kind of work, and Public Award Monitor is the one aimed at public awards.
What is actually going wrong
A grant or a public contract is budget with a start date attached, announced in public, months before the spending happens. It is one of the few funding signals that is fully open and it sits in portals designed for procurement officers rather than anyone selling. So the data is free and effectively invisible.
Traditional Search Tools
- The awarding body's own announcements. Agencies publish winners and most have a mailing list. Free, narrow, and reliable if you sell into one sector.
- GovWin, Tussell or a procurement intelligence vendor. They aggregate the portals and add pipeline data on unawarded tenders. Priced for companies whose whole business is public sector.
- Search the portals. USASpending, Contracts Finder, TED, the NIH reporter. All free and all searchable. Each has its own interface and none of them will remember your search next week.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- Public Award Monitor3 preconfigured tasks on this page's job.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.