Buying and payment

Buy federal.contractors

Pay by card, or purchase annual monitoring service by invoice and purchase order. This page provides plain technical information and the contact path for vendor setup. The free daily allowances for checks and manual record sealing, and the free three-entity monitoring allowance, are listed on the pricing page.

Card

Self-serve checkout

Monitoring service can be paid by card from the pricing page. Annual service comes first, and a month-to-month alternative is available at the same capacities.

View service and pricing

Invoice or purchase order

Annual monitoring service

Email the legal organization name, required active-counterparty capacity, billing contact, and purchase order requirements. Provide the service account email separately from the billing contact: that address signs in once at federal.contractors so the paid service has an account to attach to.

Requests are handled manually. Payment terms appear on the issued invoice, and paid monitoring begins after payment or another authorized recorded settlement. A purchase-order request alone does not start paid coverage or supply records from before it. Invoice billing uses the same subscription path as card checkout.

Request an invoice

Vendor setup

Procurement documents

Request the signed W-9, SAM.gov vendor registration details, remittance address, and standard vendor forms from billing@federal.contractors. Include your vendor portal link or forms when applicable.

Purchase request

Sole-source justification template

Adapt this paragraph to your facts and procurement policy. The buying organization, not federal.contractors, decides whether a sole-source purchase is permitted.

federal.contractors provides scheduled SAM.gov Exclusions checks with a verification record for each check, separate check and source times, recomputable SHA-256 seals, change notices, roster membership history, and period audit packets generated from those records. We need one service to create and retain that dated evidence across our active [subrecipient, vendor, or subcontractor] roster instead of maintaining separate screenshots and spreadsheets. Based on our review, this combined monitoring and sealed-record workflow meets our operational requirement. We request approval for annual monitoring service covering up to [25, 150, or 1,000] active counterparties at [$ amount].

Technical review

Security summary

Source data: Checks use public federal data from SAM.gov. Roster suggestions can also use public USAspending and Federal Audit Clearinghouse data. The service does not use private government systems.
Customer data: We store account and session data, roster selections, customer-supplied roster notes, sealed verification records and packets, and Stripe customer and subscription identifiers. Stripe handles payment details. federal.contractors does not store card or bank account numbers.
Hosting: The production deployment is one private Hostinger VPS for the Nuxt application and a PostgreSQL database. Caddy terminates HTTPS. Cloudflare provides DNS and off-box object storage. Resend delivers transactional email.
Backups: PostgreSQL backups run on a daily schedule through pgBackRest, with write-ahead log archiving and off-box storage in Cloudflare R2. Raw source artifacts are content addressed, retained without deletion, replicated to Cloudflare R2, and copied to an independent pull-only mirror.
Tracking: PostHog provides product analytics and session replay on eligible public browsing pages. Account, check, and evidence pages send only generalized pageviews, with replay disabled. Account menus and check and search controls are excluded from capture. The site has no advertising or social trackers. The privacy notice describes the data collected and exclusions.

Send security questionnaires and incident reporting questions to support@federal.contractors.

Accessibility

Accessibility statement

federal.contractors aims to conform to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. The service uses semantic page structure, keyboard-operable controls, visible focus, text alternatives for functional icons, responsive layouts, and light and dark color schemes with readable contrast.

Accessibility is reviewed as the service changes. It has not been independently certified. If a page or document blocks your work, email support@federal.contractors with the page, task, browser, and assistive technology involved. We will provide the same information in an accessible format and fix confirmed barriers.