What is FAPIIS?

FAPIIS can include criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings connected to federal contracts or grants, terminations for default or cause, nonresponsibility determinations, administrative agreements, and other integrity information required by statute or regulation.

FAR 52.209-7 requires certain offerors with more than $10 million in active federal contracts and grants to report specified proceedings from the preceding five years through their SAM registration. The provision defines which dispositions and monetary thresholds are reportable.

FAPIIS is an input to a responsibility determination, not an automatic score. FAR 9.104-6 directs contracting officers to consider relevance, age, context, affiliates, predecessors, subsidiaries, other past performance, and any mitigating information.

A record from an unrelated product, an expired action, or a resolved matter may carry different weight from recent information tied to the acquisition. The contracting officer documents how the information was considered for covered awards.

SAM.gov Exclusions identifies active debarments, suspensions, proposed debarments, and other restrictions. CPARS contains contractor performance assessments. FAPIIS draws on these and other responsibility information, but the systems answer different questions.

An integrity record does not by itself mean an entity has an active exclusion. Active exclusion status must be checked against SAM.gov Exclusions for a cited source date.

A public record can document that a particular event or government entry was reported. It cannot replace the contracting officer's responsibility determination, establish present-day exclusion status, or supply context absent from the record.

Users should review the event date, reporting party, related entity, disposition, comments, and source system before drawing conclusions.