Contract Awards in SAM.gov

GSA continues to create a more modern and unified user experience for the entities that want to do business or currently are doing business with the federal award community while reducing costs for the government and the taxpayer.

The Federal Procurement Data System’s (FPDS.gov) capabilities will transition to SAM.gov on an incremental basis to make way for a modernized procurement data system within SAM.gov

ezSearch

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GSA has completed the transition of ezSearch functionalities to SAM.gov, and decommissioned ezSearch on February 24, 2026 . The contract award search function in SAM.gov allows users to search federal procurement data and to filter by keyword, agency, and legal business name.  Results are available to anyone with a SAM.gov account, including contractors, agencies, and the public.

The federal government procurement data found in SAM.gov’s search is mostly used for policy and trend analysis.  Search results contain publicly available information about all unclassified contract actions exceeding the micro-purchase threshold and any modifications to those actions that change previously reported data, regardless of dollar value. 

With the transition of ezSearch into SAM.gov, we also made some improvements to the functionality, including:

• Creating effective navigation between Contract Opportunities, Contract Awards and Subaward Reporting domains.
• Offering the search filters that are widely used.
• Developing Pickers for search filters, the functionality that does not exist in FPDS.gov.
• Developing search filters to be more intuitive and to allow partial searches which do not exist in FPDS.gov.

NASA Specific Awards have not been transitioned to SAM.gov.  NASA Award data may be obtained from the SAM Data Bank or FPDS Advanced Search.

Atom Feed

ATOM Feed will be replaced with the SAM.gov Contract Awards API in open.gsa.gov. 

The new API will include the following enhancements:

• Direct & On-Demand Queries

• Advanced, Granular Search

• Flexible Formats (JSON, CSV)

• Richer Data (Deleted Contracts, etc.) 

Consumers should begin using the open.gsa API today to test and update their consumption methods as necessary. There’s no need to wait. Instructions to obtain an API Key can be found here.

We will also be removing the following features and resources from FPDS.gov:

• Data dictionary: The Legacy FPDS data dictionary will be available at  SAM.gov, including previous and current versions.
• FAQ and help resources: All Legacy FPDS content including FAQ documents and Help Guides will be available at SAM.gov Help and FSD.gov 

Contract data reports (the reporting function of FPDS.gov) was integrated into SAM.gov in October of 2020. The migration of contract awards data and search capabilities integration started as a soft launch in July 2025 as the next step in the modernization process. The remaining functions of FPDS.gov will be integrated into SAM.gov in the near future.