Public sources only. Read carefully. Shown honestly.
Every row in the product traces to SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, FPDS.gov or the public SAM entity registry. Here is exactly what that means for coverage, freshness and limits.
Live numbers for this view appear here once the data engine has loaded award history. The public sources are being read now.
Coverage
Every six-digit code in the 2022 NAICS table, 1,012 of them, plus the retired 2012 and 2017 codes that still sit on older award records. Every awarding agency, defense and civilian. Every notice SAM.gov posts. Ten fiscal years of award history, loaded one subsector and fiscal year at a time, so the oldest years of the quietest codes arrive last. The NAICS index lists every code with what is on record so far, and every code has its own page.
The hand-written guidance on the site starts with the codes defense and aerospace suppliers use, because that is where the product was born. The data does not stop there: a construction firm, an IT services company and a medical supplier see the same treatment for their codes.
Loading the whole record takes time. The newest fiscal year loads first for every sector, then the next, so the most recent years are complete across every code before older years arrive. A code's page says when its numbers were last rebuilt; a code with nothing on record yet says so plainly rather than showing zeros as facts.
The directory gives every NAICS code, PSC code, buying office, vendor, state and set-aside its own public page from this same record.
Freshness
Notices are read from SAM.gov daily. Award changes are read from USASpending nightly. The FPDS feed is read daily for the last week of actions. Vendor resolution, the recompete table, buyer roll-ups and the cached numbers on public pages are rebuilt on the same nightly run. Every live block shows the date it was last rebuilt.
USASpending publishes award data with a lag that varies from days to a few weeks. The FPDS feed closes part of that gap. If an award you know about is missing, it is usually not yet published by the source; check FPDS directly and tell us if it is there and we missed it.
What each field means
Obligated is the money the government has committed on an award so far. Base and all options is the ceiling if every option is exercised. End date is the current period of performance end; potential end date includes unexercised options. Offers received is the number of offers the contracting officer recorded. Set-aside is the code the buyer used, as published. Place of performance is where the work is done, not where the vendor is. The guide to reading FPDS and USASpending goes field by field.
The boundary
Nothing enters this system from any employer, any private contact list, any conversation, or any document that is not a public federal record. That is a design rule, not a policy statement, and it is the reason you can trust that what you see is what everyone else could see if they did the work.
Errors and corrections
Source records contain errors: misspelled vendors, wrong NAICS codes, end dates never updated. We show records as published and resolve names on top of them. If a record looks wrong, use the contact page with the award identifier and we will check the source. If two vendor records should be one, say so and a person will review the merge.
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