Every source, in plain sight
Every row in the product traces to a named federal system: SAM.gov opportunities and the archive of closed ones, entities, exclusions, contract awards and other transactions, subcontract reports, assistance listings, product and service codes and wage determinations; USASpending contracts and assistance; GSA CALC labor rates and GSA per diem rates; Grants.gov opportunities; the Department of Defense Comptroller budget exhibits and the Department of War's daily contract announcements; SBIR.gov awards and topics; the Bureau of Labor Statistics' occupational wages; the FedRAMP Marketplace; the Federal Register, Regulations.gov and Congress.gov; SEC EDGAR; decisions of the Court of Federal Claims on GovInfo; and the lobbying filings at LDA.gov. Twenty-seven feeds from sixteen named systems, and the text of the regulations from the eCFR. No private lists and no guesswork.
What is in the ledger today
Some of these are still being counted. The record is loaded; the totals across it are aggregates over every row, so they are worked out a few at a time and land within minutes. A figure that has not been counted shows a dash rather than a zero.
Rules, dockets and bills arriving now
The part of the record that is published before the money moves. Read every day from the Federal Register, Regulations.gov and Congress.gov, and tagged to the NAICS and PSC codes each document touches.
31,464 code tags across 272 NAICS and PSC codes: 226 quoted in the document, 31,238 matched on a phrase, 0 suggested by AI and marked as such.
Every source, what it gives and how often it is read
Grouped the way you would look for one. Each name opens the page about it. How often is how often we read it; how far back is said wherever the record fixes it. New marks a source added in the latest releases.
Contracts and awards
- Contract awardsUSASpending.gov, Department of the Treasury
Every contract award at every agency: who won, who bought, the codes, the value, the dates and the place of performance.
- The newest contract actionsSAM.gov Contract Awards, General Services Administration
Awards signed in the last few days, with the office, the set-aside and the offers received, before the spending record has them.
- Other transactionsSAM.gov Contract Awards, General Services Administration
Agreements, orders and IDVs made outside the FAR, tagged on the award and a filter on every award list. USASpending carries none of them.
- Defense contract announcementswar.gov, Department of War
Every contract of $7.5 million or more, announced the business day it is made: the company, the amount, the contract number and the contracting activity.
- SBIR and STTR awardsSBIR.gov, Small Business Administration
Every award made under the two research programs: the company, the agency, the phase, the year and the amount.
- Subcontract reportsSAM.gov, General Services Administration, and USASpending.gov
Who a prime hired under which contract, for how much, and the vehicle the prime contract sits under.
- Sole-source justificationsSAM.gov Contract Opportunities, General Services Administration
The published reason an award was made without competition: who is locked in, under which authority, and until when.
Notices and opportunities
- Contract opportunitiesSAM.gov Contract Opportunities, General Services Administration
Every notice, every type, every code: solicitations, sources sought, presolicitations, special notices and award notices, with contacts and attachments.
- Closed noticesSAM.gov archive files, General Services Administration
Every notice SAM.gov has archived, text and all, so an award shows how it was advertised last time.
- Grant opportunitiesGrants.gov, Department of Health and Human Services
Grants that can still be applied for, forecasts included, with the agency, who may apply, the ceiling and the close date.
- SBIR and STTR topicsSBIR.gov, Small Business Administration
The research topics open now, with the agency asking, the program, the phase and the day each one closes.
Companies, registrations and cloud
- Entity registrationsSAM.gov Entity Management, General Services Administration
Every active registration: the name, UEI, CAGE code, address, NAICS codes and small business types.
- ExclusionsSAM.gov Exclusions, General Services Administration
Every company and person debarred, suspended or otherwise barred from federal work, with the agency and the dates.
- FedRAMP MarketplaceFedRAMP, General Services Administration
Every cloud product with a FedRAMP authorization or on the way to one, its impact level, the company behind it and the agencies using it.
Grants, programs and budgets
- Assistance awardsUSASpending.gov, Department of the Treasury
Grants and cooperative agreements: the recipient, the program, the agency, the amount and the state.
- Subawards under grantsUSASpending.gov, Department of the Treasury
Who a grant recipient passed money on to, under which program and in which state.
- Assistance listingsSAM.gov Assistance Listings, General Services Administration
Each grant program as the agency describes it: what it is for, who may apply, what it obligates and the law behind it.
- Defense budget requestThe DoD Comptroller, Department of War
The procurement, research and operations exhibits, line by line: what the department asks Congress to fund.
Rules, law, courts and reference
- Rules and noticesThe Federal Register, National Archives
Every proposed rule, final rule and notice, FAR and DFARS changes included, tagged to the codes it touches.
- Dockets and comment periodsRegulations.gov, General Services Administration
The docket behind each rule, and whether its comment window is still open.
- Bills and lawsCongress.gov, Library of Congress
Appropriations, defense authorization, procurement and small business bills, the stage each reached, and what became law.
- Court of Federal Claims decisionsGovInfo, Government Publishing Office
Bid protests and contract cases the court has decided, one row an opinion, each opening the court's own document.
- FAR, DFARS and size standardsThe eCFR, National Archives
The text of every FAR and DFARS clause, and the size standards that say whether you are small in a code.
- Product and service codesSAM.gov, General Services Administration
What each product and service code covers, what it leaves out, the code above it and whether it is still in use.
Prices, rates and wages
- Labor ratesGSA CALC, General Services Administration
The awarded hourly ceiling rate by job title for every company on a GSA schedule, with education and experience.
- Per diem ratesGSA per diem, General Services Administration
What is allowed for a night of lodging and a day of meals, by place and by month.
- Wage determinationsSAM.gov, Department of Labor
The least each occupation must be paid on a service or construction contract, by county, with the fringe.
- Occupational wagesThe Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor
What each occupation is paid and how many hold it, nationally, by state and by metropolitan area.
Influence and filings
- Lobbying filingsLDA.gov, the Senate and the House
Each filing: the firm, the client, the issues, the government bodies contacted and what was reported as paid or spent.
- SEC filingsEDGAR, Securities and Exchange Commission
For a contractor listed on an exchange: its revenue, its net income and its latest annual, quarterly and current reports.
Every source here is an official federal record. Each page that draws on one names it at the bottom, with a link to the source itself.
What else is on file
Each of these is read from its source and tied to the companies, the agencies and the programs already on record. A source is listed here once it is on file.
The latest records, on pages of their own
Six of the sources have public pages here, each with the newest records on it and the government's own link on every row.
Open notices
Every notice open on SAM.gov now, by agency, code, state, set-aside and type.
Read more →Grants and assistance
Grants and cooperative agreements by program, agency, recipient and state.
Read more →Federal rules
Every proposed rule, final rule and notice from the Federal Register, FAR and DFARS changes included, the newest first.
Read more →Open comment periods
Every window still open, soonest deadline first, with the docket status from Regulations.gov.
Read more →Bills in Congress
Appropriations, defense authorization, procurement and small business bills, with the stage each one reached.
Read more →Defense budget request
The P-1, R-1 and O-1 exhibits: what the Department asked for, line by line.
Read more →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. Every fiscal year the record holds, back to FY2001, loaded one fiscal year at a time, newest first, so the oldest years 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, agency, buying office, vendor, state and set-aside, every open notice, the grants, the rules, the bills and the budget a public page of its own, from this same record.
The three that arrive first
An award is a record of something that already happened. Three federal systems publish the decision before the buying changes, and the product reads all three: final and proposed rules including FAR and DFARS changes, open comment periods and the dockets behind them, and bills, appropriations, defense authorization and enacted laws.
The Federal Register publishes every proposed rule, final rule and notice the government issues, with what it amends, the clauses it names, the effective date and the deadline to comment. A proposed rule runs a year or more ahead of the solicitation it eventually produces.
Regulations.gov carries the docket each rule sits in and the authoritative answer to whether the comment window is still open. A deadline can be extended without the original notice being reissued, so the docket is checked rather than the announcement.
Congress.gov carries the bills. The budget exhibits say what the Department is asking for; a bill says what Congress is willing to give, and the difference between the two is where a program survives or quietly stops. See rules and funding.
Freshness
We check SAM.gov for new notices every hour. Award changes are read from USASpending nightly. The SAM.gov contract-award feed is read daily for the last three days of actions, and marks every other transaction it reads. Assistance (grants) changes are read nightly. The Department of War's contract announcements are read every three hours. Every other source is read on its own schedule, given for each one in the catalog above. 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. How the data is pulled walks through the schedule and what AI does and does not do.
USASpending publishes award data with a lag that varies from days to a few weeks. The SAM.gov contract-award feed closes part of that gap, and a defense award of $7.5 million or more is announced the day it is made. If an award you know about is missing, it is usually not yet published by the source; check SAM.gov 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 award records goes field by field.
The boundary
Nothing enters the record from any employer, any private contact list or any conversation. Every figure this product publishes is read from an official federal source. 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. What you add to your own account stays in that account and never enters a published figure.
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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Every code, every buying office, every vendor and every recompete, organized from the federal record and read nightly. Start on one code with no card. A plan opens every code.
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