specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
generated: '2026-09-07'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.dcma.mil/ (HTTP 403 to this crawler) and public search of DCMA / DoD acquisition
  surfaces; DCMA publishes no API, and therefore no rate limit policy, quota or throttling
  response header contract.
provider: Defense Contract Management Agency
providerId: defense-contract-management-agency
created: '2026-05-22'
modified: '2026-09-07'
tags:
  - Federal Government
  - Defense
  - Department of Defense
  - Contract Management
  - Acquisition
  - Earned Value Management
description: >-
  No published rate limits. DCMA exposes no public developer API, so there is no documented
  limit, burst envelope, quota window, 429 behaviour or RateLimit-* response header contract
  to record. An honest zero.
  THIS FILE REPLACES A FABRICATED SCAFFOLD. The prior version invented free/pro tiers
  (10 and 120 requests per minute, bursts of 20 and 240) and a full X-RateLimit-* /
  Retry-After header contract against the placeholder host
  https://defense-contract-management-agency.example/api. None of it was published by DCMA,
  and it was crediting the agency with a runtime rate-limit signal it does not emit.
limit_count: 0
limits: []
headers: {}
responseCodes: {}
recoveryStrategies: []
notes:
  - No DCMA developer program or public API base URL exists to carry a rate limit policy.
  - >-
    DCMA contract administration eTools are migrating into the DoD Procurement Integrated
    Enterprise Environment (PIEE), which is operated by the Department of Defense rather than
    by DCMA; any limits there belong to PIEE, not to this record.