Public-records evidence platform
Federal procurement, as the public record actually states it
The federal government publishes who it has excluded from contracting (SAM.gov), every prime award it signs (USASpending.gov), and integrity records on large contractors (FAPIIS). These datasets are public and free, but they live in separate systems and are hard to cross-check against one another over time. This silo joins them on the Unique Entity ID (UEI) spine and keeps a dated history, so a fact can be re-derived exactly as it stood on the day it mattered.
We report exact regulatory facts only— a registration status, an exclusion's active window, an award's signed date. We never publish a derived “risk” score or label an entity, and every record carries a link to confirm current status at the official source.
What this silo is built on
Studies
The State of Federal Contractor Integrity 2026 — flagship annual roundup →
One citable roundup of the silo's findings: 324,126 active SAM.gov exclusions (90.15% from three agencies), the prime contracts signed during an active exclusion window, and how a debarment ends 8(a) eligibility. Aggregate counts only — reproducible from published SQL.
Federal Suspension & Debarment Scorecard →
Every active record in the SAM.gov Exclusions registry, ranked by the agency that issued it, with breakdowns by exclusion type, classification, and activation year. Aggregate counts only — reproducible from the published SQL.
The Leakage Report — Federal Contracts Awarded During Active Exclusion Periods →
Reconstructs the active exclusion window for each confirmed entity and finds prime awards whose signed date fell inside it. Stated strictly as two dated facts — the award's signed date and the exclusion's active window — and fully reproducible from the published SQL.
The US + EU Sanctions Universe — Composition & Growth →
Every active designation on the U.S. OFAC SDN/Consolidated lists and the EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, broken out by party type, designation year, and program — with the post-2022 surge that made the active map majority-new. Aggregate counts only, from signed daily snapshots.
The Name-Only Exclusion List — 72% of federal exclusions carry no contracting ID →
Of the 324,126 active records on the SAM.gov exclusion list, 72.0% carry neither a UEI nor a CAGE code — the keys the contracting system runs on — so they can be matched only by name. The list is name-only because it is mostly individuals. Aggregate counts only, reproducible from published SQL.
The Federal Blacklist Is Mostly People - and Three Agencies Run It →
Of the 324,126 active records on the SAM.gov exclusion list, 79.8% are individuals; HHS, OPM, and OFAC together account for 90.1% of the active registry. Aggregate counts only, reproducible from committed SQL.
1,290 People Are Running for President — anatomy of the federal candidate registry →
A profile of the FEC Candidate Master File: 8,079 federal candidate records, a 20-record gap between Democrats and Republicans, and challengers outnumbering incumbents 6.7 to 1. Aggregate counts only — no candidate, committee, donor, or campaign named.
Six in Ten Federal Committees Answer to No Candidate →
Of the 19,954 registered committees in the FEC Committee Master File, 60.1% are non-candidate committees: unauthorized committees, lobbyist/registrant PACs, leadership PACs, or joint fundraising committees. Aggregate counts only, with no committee or person named.
The UN Consolidated Sanctions List, Profiled — 92.8% of it predates 2020 →
The UN Security Council Consolidated List, broken out by individual versus entity, by sanctions committee, and by the year each designation was added. Unlike the post-2022 OFAC and EU surge, the UN list barely moved — a counter-terror-era register, four committees holding 75% of it. Aggregate counts only, from a signed daily snapshot.
Browse by agency
Federal agencies — debarments & contracting, agency by agency →
One profile per federal agency: how many parties it has excluded from federal contracting (SAM.gov) and the prime awards it has signed (USASpending.gov), ranked and source-stamped. The debarment side is complete today; the award side fills in as the federal backfill runs.
Browse by industry
Federal spend by NAICS industry code — top contractors & agencies →
One profile per NAICS industry code with federal award activity: how much the government has obligated under it, the contractors who win the work, the agencies that buy it, the set-aside mix, and the fiscal-year trend. Exact USASpending.gov facts, source-stamped; coverage grows as the federal award backfill runs.
Look up a contractor
Federal contractor records — exclusions & awards by entity →
One canonical record per entity, keyed to its 12-character Unique Entity ID (UEI) — the SAM.gov exclusion records and USASpending.gov prime awards on file, as dated facts. For programmatic checks, the procurement screening API returns the same source-stamped facts by UEI or CAGE.
Set-aside certifications
Federal set-aside certified firms — 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB, SDVOSB →
SBA small-business set-aside certifications joined to federal award history on the same UEI spine. Browse certified firms by program and state, each an exact SBA certification fact sitting next to the firm's prime-award record. Sourced to the SBA (data.sba.gov / Dynamic Small Business Search) — U.S. Government works, public domain.
Federal contracting reference & lookups
Plain, source-stamped reference pages for the terms people search before they screen a contractor — each answer-first, with a link to the official source and into the silo's record.
Program guides
8(a) certification, explained →
The plain rules of the SBA's 8(a) Business Development program — who qualifies, how to apply, the nine-year term, and how a SAM.gov exclusion or debarment ends eligibility. Sourced to sba.gov and 13 CFR Part 124, and dated.
Federal contracting questions, answered
Federal contracting questions, answered from the public record →
Plain, source-stamped answers to the questions people ask about federal contractors — who is excluded, what a UEI or CAGE code is, how suspension differs from debarment, and whether a debarred company can still win an award. Each answer is built from SAM.gov, USASpending, and the FAR, with a source and date on every fact.
Data sourced from US federal public records (US Government Works). Confirm any current status at sam.gov and usaspending.gov. Part of Fonteum (fonteum.com).