get_federal_contracts

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Returns federal contract awards from USAspending.gov — government spending data sourced from Treasury/GSA. Each record is one prime contract award (BPA Call, Purchase Order, Delivery Order, or Definitive Contract). Modifications appear as separate records. Use this when the user asks about: who's getting federal contracts, how much a specific recipient (Lockheed Martin, RTX, Raytheon, Booz Allen, etc.) won this year/quarter, contracts by industry (NAICS code) or product type (PSC code), or to cross-reference congressional trading with contract awards. Cross-source pattern (the political-alpha play): 1. get_congressional_trades(ticker:'LMT', since:'2026-01-01') — find LMT trades by members of Congress. 2. get_federal_contracts(recipient_name:'Lockheed Martin', since:'2026-01-01') — find LMT contract awards. 3. Compare timing — trades within 30 days before a major contract are the high-signal cases. ⚠ award_amount and total_outlays are NULLABLE, and total_outlays is null on MOST rows. USAspending omits Total Outlays from the search response about 75% of the time, and this tool now reports that as null rather than as $0 — a 0 here means the source really said zero. Do not do arithmetic on either field without a null check. Rows with a null value are excluded from min_amount filters and sort LAST, because a value we do not have cannot satisfy a threshold. recipient_name is a case-insensitive substring match — use the parent name ('Lockheed Martin') to catch all subsidiaries. COVERAGE — live passthrough (source:'live'): each call queries USAspending's API over the full dataset (2007-10 onward), with recipient/NAICS/PSC/min-amount/date filters applied server-side. The response's `total_count` is USAspending's authoritative award count for your filtered query — USE IT for volume answers (the `results` array is just the requested page). `total_count` is omitted — and coverage_warning says why — when USAspending cannot count the answer: a recipient_uei that is also the PARENT of other recipients (USAspending cannot filter to one UEI's own awards), recipient_name combined with recipient_uei, or a start_date window (sort_by start_date with since/until). Then has_more is true whenever the search stopped before the end. On USAspending outage the tool falls back to a recent cached window (source:'cache' + coverage_warning) — don't infer volume there.