specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: Chief Acquisition Officers Council
providerId: chief-acquisition-officers-council
generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: https://www.acquisition.gov
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-05'
tags:
  - Acquisition
  - CAOC
  - FAR
  - Federal Government
  - GSA
  - Interagency Council
  - OFPP
  - OMB
  - Procurement
  - Public Sector
description: >-
  The Chief Acquisition Officers Council documents no rate limits, because it operates no API.
  There is no key issuance, no quota, no throttling policy and no documented rate-limit
  response header on any surface the Council publishes. The only machine-readable thing on
  its publishing host is the site-wide RSS feed at https://www.acquisition.gov/rss.xml, which
  carries no rate-limit headers.
limit_count: 0
limits: []
headers: {}
responseCodes: {}
policies: []
note: >-
  Supersedes a bulk-sweep scaffold dated 2026-05-04 that asserted per-minute and per-month
  limits for free / professional / enterprise tiers and a full X-RateLimit-* header set. None
  of that was published by the Council; it was a generated placeholder. Replaced here with a
  measured zero. Probes run 2026-09-05: https://www.acquisition.gov/rss.xml returned 200 with
  no RateLimit, X-RateLimit or Retry-After header; https://www.acquisition.gov/api and
  /developers returned 404, and robots.txt states no crawl-delay for the paths in scope.
evidence:
  - url: https://www.acquisition.gov/rss.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.acquisition.gov/robots.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.acquisition.gov/api
    status: 404
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com