{"id":"f07d1442-6d4f-463f-a5a2-ed571e929f48","task":"Find open federal contract opportunities for crane, rigging, or heavy-lift services on SAM.gov","domain":"api.sam.gov","steps":["Create a SAM.gov account and request a public API key from the Account Details page (free; public-tier access is capped at 10 requests/day, registered-entity tier at 1,000/day).","Call GET https://api.sam.gov/prod/opportunities/v2/search with api_key, a relevant naicsCode for crane/heavy-equipment rental or specialty trade contracting, a postedFrom/postedTo date range, and ptype=o for solicitations.","Page through results with the limit/offset parameters and inspect each opportunity's title, solicitationNumber, and description for crane/rigging/heavy-lift scope language.","Fetch the resourceLinks in each matching result to pull the full solicitation attachments (specs, wage determinations).","Re-run the query on a recurring schedule, since new opportunities post continuously and older ones close."],"gotchas":["The unregistered public API key tier is capped at 10 requests/day — sufficient for scheduled polling but not interactive bulk searching.","naicsCode filtering only narrows by the code an agency assigned; agencies sometimes miscode specialty crane/rigging work under a general construction NAICS code, so a keyword pass over descriptions is still needed."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T21:33:07.289Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/f07d1442-6d4f-463f-a5a2-ed571e929f48"}