Most first federal work is subcontract work
A company with no past performance rarely wins a prime award on day one. It wins a subcontract from somebody who already holds the prime. The record of who pays whom is published and almost nobody reads it.
who already passes work down in your code from subaward reporting, filed by the prime
Who the primes actually paid
Primes on large awards must report what they pass down. That reporting becomes a row per subaward: the prime, the subcontractor, the amount, the date, the code, the description in the prime's own words, and where the subcontractor sits.
Filter it the way you would filter anything else here: by code, by state, by prime, by value, by year. Every subaward links to its prime award, so you can see the whole contract it came out of and who the buying office was.
- Every subaward on record, filterable by code, state, prime and value
- The prime award behind each one, and the office that issued it
- Subcontractors near you, by place of performance
- Which primes pass down the most work in your code
How to use it
Pick your code and your state and sort by value. The primes at the top are the ones who buy the most of what you do. They are already reporting subcontract dollars, which means they already have the flow-down machinery and a supplier list you are not on.
Then open the prime. You will see everything else they hold, what is ending soon, and which offices they sell to. A prime with a recompete twelve months out needs a stronger team than the one they bid with last time, and that is the conversation.
Who a grant was passed on to
A recipient of a grant reports what it passes on, as a prime contractor does. About 4.4 million of those subawards are on file, from 2010 on. A member searches them by who received the money, who passed it on, the program and the state, and every grant shows the subawards made under it.
What subaward reporting is, and is not
It is the prime's own reporting, so the descriptions are theirs and the coverage is uneven. Small purchases below the reporting threshold never appear, and some primes report late or thinly. Treat it as a map of who works with whom rather than a complete ledger of every dollar. Everything shown is exactly what was filed, never an estimate.
Where it is in the app
Subawards, under Intelligence in the menu, in Companies and records. Intelligence is the part of LastAwarded that finds the market, one of the eight parts.
Related
- Incumbent profilesEverything one prime holds, in one place.
- For subcontractorsThe job, start to finish.
- Vehicles and task ordersThe contracts the work is ordered against.
See who was last awarded in your NAICS
Every code, every buying office, every vendor and every recompete, organized from the federal record and read nightly. Open it with a plan.