GovSpend: what it returns, and whether it works in Clay

GovSpend is available inside Clay (https://www.clay.com/integrations/data-provider/govspend). It is best for Buying signals, Diligence, Content demo. Pricing: Via Clay credits.

Data domains: Government, Jobs and hiring, Workforce, Email, Phone.

What does GovSpend return?

Clay catalog fields: Government Agency ID; Government Agency Website; Government Agency Employee Count; Agency Total bids; Agency latest bid count; Agency Bid details by year; Bid Title; Bid Description; Bid Document Count; Bid Summary; Bid Number; Bid Due Date; Bid Posted Date; Bid Department; Bid Awarded Amount; Bid ID; Agency Contacts Count; Agency Contacts by Job Title; Agency Contacts by Occupation; Agency Contacts by State; Govt Contact Full Name; Govt Contact Job Title; Govt Contact Work Email; Govt Contact Phone; Govt Contact ID; govt & vendor contacts. Clay University action outputs: Each bid becomes a row with these columns: Bid title: The bid's title. Bid ID: GovSpend's unique ID for the bid. Bid details URL: A link to the bid in GovSpend. Bid number: The bid's reference number, such as 26-181 . AMSC code: The bid's AMSC code in GovSpend. Set-aside program: The set-aside program the bid falls under, where it has one. Due date: The date the bid is due. Posted date: The date the bid was posted. Record created: When GovSpend added the bid to its records. Awarded amount: The bid's awarded amount, in U.S. dollars. Number of documents: How many documents are attached to the bid. Details about the agency that posted the bid: Agency ID: GovSpend's ID for the agency. Agency name and Agency name and state: The agency's name, on its own and with its state, such as Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia . Agency type: The kind of agency, such as Consolidated City-County . Level of government: The agency's level of government, such as Local . Agency city , Agency county , Agency state , Agency state code , and Agency ZIP code: Where the agency is located. Agency website: The agency's website. Fiscal year start month and Fiscal year end month: The months the agency's fiscal year starts and ends, as numbers from 1 to 12. Bid title: The bid's title. Description: The bid's full description. Summary: The bid's summary. Bid number: The bid's reference number. Department: The department listed on the bid, such as Procurement . Number of documents: How many documents are attached to the bid. Documents: The attached documents, each with its File name , Content type , Download URL , File size in bytes , and Content ID . Bid details URL: A link to the bid in GovSpend. Due date , Posted date , and Awarded amount: The bid's key dates and its value in U.S. dollars. Agency ID , Agency name , Agency name and state , and Agency website: The agency that posted the bid. Bid ID: The bid's GovSpend ID. Number of matches: How many agencies matched your inputs. A 1 means the lookup landed on a single agency. Agencies: Up to 10 matching agencies. Each carries: Agency ID: GovSpend's ID for the agency. Name and Name and state: The agency's name, on its own and with its state. Agency type: The kind of agency, such as Counties . Level of government: The agency's level of government, such as Local . Address , City , County , State , State code , and ZIP code: Where the agency is located. Phone number and Website: The agency's phone number and website. Population and Population year: The agency's population size and the year that figure comes from. Employee count and Employee count year: How many people the agency employs and the year that figure comes from. GovSpend profile URL: A link to the agency's profile in GovSpend. Total bids: How many of the agency's bids match Bid status . Bids in the latest year: How many bids the agency posted in its most recent year with bids, which can be the current, partial year. Average bids per year: Total bids divided by Years with bid activity , rounded to one decimal place. Years with bid activity: How many years appear in Bids by year . First year with bids and Latest year with bids: The earliest and most recent years in Bids by year . Total bid documents: How many documents are attached across those bids. Agency ID: The agency the counts are for. Bids by year: One entry per year, grouped by the year each bid was posted, with Year , Number of bids , and Number of documents . Number of contacts: How many contacts match. Average profile completeness: The contacts' average profile completeness, GovSpend's score for how fully a contact's profile is filled in. Agency ID: The agency the count is for. Contacts by occupation: The 10 occupations with the most matching contacts. Contacts by job title: The 10 job titles with the most matching contacts. Contacts by state: Matching contacts by two-letter state code. Each breakdown entry carries a Value , which is the occupation, job title, or state code, along with a Number of contacts and an Average profile completeness . Number of people returned: How many people came back. Total matching people: How many people match in GovSpend, which can be more than; [list continues]

What can you derive from it?

1. Public-sector timing: bid dates, awards, agency type, decision makers, and source documents can expose budget cycles and incumbent renewal windows.

How would a GTM team use it?

1. PE screen: score targets with GovSpend operating signals, then verify the top decile against filings, management commentary, and at least one independent source. 2. Revenue trigger: launch outreach only when a GovSpend signal indicates an active project, budget event, stack change, hiring push, or market expansion. 3. Buyer map: use GovSpend to find and validate relevant operators, then weight contacts by authority, tenure, role recency, and reachability.

What are the caveats?

Verified against Clay's live public integration catalog on 2026-10-17. The catalog data-point list is integration-wide; a particular action may return only a subset. Clay University also publishes action-level outputs; the raw-data column includes a condensed excerpt of that deeper schema. Coverage, freshness, geography, credit cost, and BYO-account requirements vary by action and plan. Estimated or inferred values should be validated before investment, legal, credit, or other high-stakes decisions.