What Is Spend Data in Pursuit?

Last updated: October 16, 2026

Quick Answer

Spend data shows what government accounts bought, from which vendor, for how much, and when each contract ends. Pursuit extracts it from purchase orders, invoices, and contracts in public government documents, down to the line item. Use it to find competitor contracts coming up for renewal, size an account's spend in a category, and see where a vendor sells.

What This Is

Spend data is Pursuit's record of government purchasing, built from public source documents across all 50 states. Every record links back to the document it came from, so you can open the original purchase order or contract at the cited page. It sits alongside the rest of Intel: you filter accounts by spend the same way you filter by population, state, or entity type.

How Spend Data Works

Spend records and line items

Each spend record captures the vendor, amount, and date of a purchase. Line items break the purchase down so you see exactly what was bought, not just who paid whom. For example, a county's $180,000 purchase order to Motorola might list radios, licenses, and a maintenance term as separate lines.

Contracts

Contract records add the end date, value, contract vehicle, renewal terms, and buyer. Open a contract to see its line items, find similar contracts, and jump to the source document at the cited page. Active contracts with an end date are your renewal list.

Filtering by spend

Spend filters combine with your other Intel filters. A few examples:

  • Accounts that spent over $250,000 on public safety in the past 24 months

  • Texas counties over 100,000 people that spent $100,000 or more with Motorola

  • Accounts with a contract from a specific vendor expiring in the next 6 months

Vendor lookup

Look up a vendor to see the states it sells in, which accounts buy from it, how much each spent, and each account's next contract expiration.

What It Doesn't Do

Spend data covers purchases that appear in public documents Pursuit has collected. If an account doesn't publish its purchase orders or contracts, it won't have spend records. A missing record means Pursuit hasn't found a document, not that no purchase happened. Vendor names can vary across documents, so search a few spellings (for example, "Motorola" and "Motorola Solutions").

Next Step

Find competitor contracts that are about to expire: see How to Find Competitor Contracts That Are Expiring.