SAM.gov Data Actor — Data Policy & Removal

Last updated 19 August 2026

This page covers the Apify actor SAM.gov Federal Contract Opportunities & Attachments. It exists so that anyone whose information appears in the data has a documented way to reach us.

Where the data comes from

Every field is read from SAM.gov, the U.S. General Services Administration's public System for Award Management, through the same public endpoint the SAM.gov search page itself uses. The actor:

never signs in, and holds no account, credential, API key or session cookie;
reads only what SAM.gov serves to an anonymous visitor;
fetches and honours robots.txt on every single run;
does not attempt to reach any endpoint that requires authorisation.

U.S. Government works are not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. § 105), and FAR Part 5 requires agencies to publish these notices so that businesses can find them.

What personal data appears

Two kinds, and we treat them differently.

Contracting officers. Contract notices name a point of contact with an institutional email address and sometimes a phone number. These are public officials identified as responsible for a procurement in an official notice, and the notice exists so that vendors can contact them.

Exclusion records. The federal exclusion list includes natural persons, not only companies. We publish these records as SAM.gov publishes them and we deliberately do not offer any "is this vendor debarred?" lookup: most excluded individuals carry no unique entity identifier, so matching by name alone would manufacture false positives about real people.

What we do not do

We do not enrich this data with any external source.
We do not build or sell profiles of individuals.
We do not return attachments that SAM.gov marks as restricted, export-controlled, deleted or non-public — not even their URL.
We do not retain raw responses. Cached rows are the same normalised rows the actor delivers, and they expire automatically.

Requesting removal or correction

privacy@actorstack.dev Include the notice ID, exclusion ID or the exact URL, and say what you would like removed or corrected. We reply within 5 working days.

Two things worth knowing before you write, because they affect what we can actually do:

We can remove a record from our cache and stop returning it. We cannot change anything on SAM.gov — for that, contact the publishing agency named in the notice, or the Federal Service Desk.
Customers who ran the actor hold their own copy of the results in their own Apify account. We will tell you what we removed and when, but we cannot reach into their storage.

Requests from GSA

Any request from the General Services Administration or another U.S. federal agency is actioned immediately: we stop collecting first and discuss afterwards.