A USAspending Alternative for Contractor Research
This USAspending alternative is for BD and capture teams who want federal award data as readable pages, not search forms.
The Procura explorer gives you one page per contractor, agency, NAICS code and state, built from official federal spending data.
It is free to browse, with no sign-up.
USAspending vs. Procura: feature-by-feature comparison
| USAspending.gov | Procura explorer | |
|---|---|---|
| Role | The official source of federal spending data, run by the Treasury | Pages built from USAspending.gov and SAM.gov data |
| Company research | Recipient profiles; search by name or UEI | One page per company; look up by name, UEI or CAGE code |
| Agency research | Agency profiles with spending by fiscal year | Department, sub-agency and office pages, each with its contractors |
| NAICS and state | Filters in Advanced Search | A page for each NAICS code and each state |
| Subcontracts | Subawards in Advanced Search | Subcontracts on each company page, plus a report on reports missing from USAspending.gov |
| Downloads | Search results, an award data archive, and custom and bulk files | Excel or CSV from every table; a free account has limits, paid plans have none |
| API | Public API, no key needed | On Enterprise plans |
| Account needed to browse | No | No |
Prime award data is loaded from USAspending.gov monthly and subcontract reports from SAM.gov daily.
One page per contractor, agency and NAICS code
Each company gets a profile page built from its prime awards and subawards:
- Contract awards by fiscal year
- Buyers: the agencies and offices it sells to
- Teaming: its primes and its subcontractors
- Its UEI in the page address, with UEI and CAGE code lookups
Browse all contractor profiles, or open a NAICS code or a state.
See who each agency buys from
Agency pages follow the way buying offices are organized:
- Departments, then sub-agencies, then individual offices
- The contractors each one buys from, by contract dollars
- The industries each office buys in
- Contracts at busy offices that come up for recompete
Start at the agency pages.
Subcontract data USAspending is missing
We compared the subcontract reports filed with SAM.gov to what USAspending.gov shows. About 38% of the reports filed since June 2025 are missing from USAspending.gov.
Read The Subaward Gap and download the full dataset for free.
When USAspending is still the right tool
USAspending.gov stays the place to go for some jobs:
- It is the official source of record for federal spending.
- It offers bulk files and full database downloads for your own analysis.
- Its public API needs no key.
Many teams use both: USAspending.gov for the raw files, the explorer for quick answers about a company or an office.
Free to browse. Create an account when you want more.