Public-records evidence platform
Federal procurement, as the public record actually states it
The federal government publishes contracting exclusions (SAM.gov), prime-award transactions (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. Fonteum joins them on the Unique Entity ID (UEI) spine and stores the current rows and a limited retained history. As of July 12, only 38 procurement-award rows were closed historical versions, so the product does not promise replay for an arbitrary date.
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. Displayed records link to the official source where a source URL is available; confirm current status there.
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Studies
The State of Federal Contractor Integrity 2026 →
Fonteum's annual roundup of federal contractor integrity: 323,930 active SAM.gov exclusions (90.20% from three agencies), 114 prime contracts signed during an active exclusion window, and how a debarment ends 8(a) eligibility. Aggregate counts only; reproducible from published SQL.
The OIG Exclusion List, Anatomized: 68,055 Exclusions →
Of 68,055 parties currently barred from federal health programs on the HHS-OIG LEIE (snapshot 2026-05-08), 97.6% are individuals. License revocation (§1128(b)(4)) and program-related convictions (§1128(a)(1)) account for 71% of the list; only 10.3% carry an NPI. Aggregate counts only; no excluded party named.
Sanctioned Across Borders: The Excluded Parties Who Appear on More Than One List →
A cross-list overlap analysis of six U.S. and international sanctions and exclusion lists (OFAC SDN, the EU and UN consolidated lists, SAM.gov, OIG LEIE, and 13 state Medicaid registries). Of 11,093 NPI-identified excluded U.S. providers, 43.2% appear on more than one registry and 908 on all three at once; 84 EU designations carry a published UN cross-reference. Aggregate counts only; no party named.
FDA Enforcement Trends 2026: 56,777 Recalls, by the Numbers →
A full-database profile of 56,777 FDA recall reports and 89,553 enforcement actions. Medical devices account for 68.9% of recalls; 86.0% are Class II. Only 0.5% are FDA-mandated — firms initiate the rest themselves. Of 4,204 distinct firms, 109 each have 100+ recalls and together account for 46.8% of all recall records. Aggregate counts only; no individual named.
The Most Recalled Car Brands: 15,035 NHTSA Recalls by Make →
A count of the U.S. vehicle safety-recall record by brand. Across 15,035 NHTSA recall campaigns reported 2010–2026 (691.5M potentially-affected units), Ford carries the most — 847 campaigns, 5.6% of the entire record — ahead of Mercedes-Benz (512) and Chevrolet (438). The 25 largest brands account for 38.4% of all brand-campaign appearances. Aggregate counts only; brand names are the public NHTSA record.
EPA Fines 2026: Who Pollutes Most and Pays Most →
A full-database profile of 3,135,553 facilities in the EPA's ECHO enforcement record. 44,112 (1.4%) carry a formal enforcement action in the last five years and 21,125 a monetary penalty, totalling $10.9 billion. 78,711 facilities are currently flagged in violation. Penalties are highly concentrated: the top 100 penalized facilities account for 39.4% of the total. Aggregate counts only; facility names are public EPA records with no derived score.
Carrier Safety Ratings 2026: Who Operates With the Worst Records →
A full-database profile of 4.46M FMCSA-registered motor carriers, 3.59M crash records, and 3.10M roadside inspections. Half of registered carriers are inactive; only 1.2% carry any FMCSA safety rating, and 744 carriers FMCSA itself rated Unsatisfactory are still active. Crashes total 138,535 fatalities and 2.12M injuries; 18.7% of inspections end in an out-of-service order. Aggregate counts only; no individual named.
The Most-Recalled Product Brands: 9,862 CPSC Safety Recalls, Counted by Firm →
A count of the U.S. consumer-product safety-recall record by the firm named on each recall. Across 9,862 CPSC recalls (1973–2026), Sears carries the most named-firm recalls (81), ahead of Polaris (79) and Kmart (56). But no brand dominates: the 25 most-recalled firms account for just 8.4% of all brand-recall appearances — a very long tail. Aggregate counts only; brand names are the public CPSC record.
OCC Enforcement Actions and the 4,954-Order Federal Split →
OCC EASearch CSV and Federal Reserve enforcement JSON split the federal banking-enforcement corpus almost evenly: 2,514 Federal Reserve rows and 2,440 OCC rows in the committed 2026-02-25 snapshot. Aggregate counts only, with no institution or individual named.
SEC Enforcement Peaked in 2023 — and Has Fallen Every Year Since →
SEC Litigation Releases plus Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases: 15,183 published actions, a 2023 peak of 425, and lower counts in 2024, 2025, and partial 2026. Aggregate counts only, with no respondent or release-level row named.
Software Is Now the Most-Recalled Vehicle Component →
In the NHTSA ODI recalls snapshot dated 2026-06-24, software is the largest recalled component bucket: 20,508 make-model-year-campaign recall records, ahead of tire markings at 19,460. Aggregate counts only — not unique campaigns, not affected vehicles, and no individual records.
Federal Award Concentration: Top 1% Capture 83.44% of FY2026 Positive Dollars →
A committed FY2026 USAspending concentration snapshot: 93,265 recipients with positive net obligations, top 10 at 23.98% of positive dollars, top 100 at 59.15%, and top 1% at 83.44%, with agency, NAICS, and set-aside slices.
Contracts Awarded During Active Exclusion Periods →
The Leakage Report: federal prime contracts whose signed date fell inside an active SAM.gov exclusion window for the same confirmed recipient. Reproducible from published SQL; exact dated facts only.
Federal Suspension & Debarment Scorecard →
Every active federal exclusion in SAM.gov, ranked by the agency that issued it - a clean per-agency scorecard of the active debarment registry. Reproducible from published SQL; aggregate counts only.
The US + EU Sanctions Universe: 25,954 active designations, and the post-2022 surge →
How much of the active US and EU sanctions map is new? An aggregate, reproducible breakdown of 25,954 active designations across the OFAC SDN list and the EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions list by party type, designation year, and program. Counts only; no party named.
OFAC SDN List: Russia Is Now the Largest Sanctions Program →
Of 20,055 current OFAC SDN listings in the 2026-06-28 source snapshot, recomputed 2026-07-14, RUSSIA-EO14024 leads at 6,567 listings and a six-code Iran cluster ranks second at 4,003. Aggregate counts only; no SDN party named.
SAM Exclusions With No Contracting ID: 72% Are Name-Only →
Of 323,930 active-at-2026-07-14 SAM.gov exclusion records, 72.0% carry neither a UEI nor a CAGE code. The current identifier-link layer covers the full active registry. Aggregate counts only; no party named.
The Excluded Parties List Is Mostly People — Three Agencies Run It →
Of 323,930 active-at-2026-07-14 SAM.gov exclusion records, 258,362 are individuals (79.8%). HHS, OPM, and OFAC together account for 292,173 records, or 90.2% of the active federal exclusion list. Aggregate counts only; no party named.
1,290 People Are Running for President: Anatomy of the Federal Candidate Registry →
A committed aggregate profile of 8,079 records in the FEC Candidate Master File: 1,290 presidential candidate records, a 20-record gap between Democrats and Republicans, and challengers outnumbering incumbents 6.7 to 1.
The Biggest Super PACs Answer to No Candidate →
FEC Committee Master File snapshot 2026-06-22: 11,988 of 19,954 registered federal committees (60.1%) are non-candidate PAC, lobbyist/registrant PAC, leadership PAC, or joint fundraising committees. Aggregate counts only.
The UN Consolidated Sanctions List, Profiled: 92.8% of it predates 2020 →
A composition and cadence profile of the United Nations Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List: 1,002 active designations, 72.9% individuals, across 14 sanctions committees. Unlike the post-2022 OFAC and EU surge, 92.8% of the UN list predates 2020. Aggregate counts only; no party named.
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 with available source and observation metadata. The debarment directory covers the loaded SAM.gov set; 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. Figures draw from loaded USASpending.gov rows and display source and observation metadata where available; 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 loaded facts with available source and observation metadata 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 loaded certification records by program and state alongside available prime-award history. 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 — answer-first, with official-source and contractor-record links where available.
- Top federal contractors by obligated dollars →
- The SAM exclusion list — what it is & how to check it →
- CAGE code lookup →
- UEI lookup →
- FPDS — what it is & where its data went →
- Sole-source contracts, explained →
SEC company filings use a different federal identifier spine. Read what a CIK number means in EDGAR.
Historical and cross-market identifiers remain source-specific: read the DUNS number transition and the Legal Entity Identifier definition.
Procurement glossary:
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 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. Answers draw from SAM.gov, USASpending, and the FAR, with source and observation metadata shown where available.
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).