For prime contractors
Your subs, screened and on the record.
The flow-down clause in your contract assumes you screen subcontractors against the exclusions list and can show that you did. federal.contractors monitors your subcontractor list, runs the check every morning, and seals each one into a dated record for the contract file.
The requirement
What the FAR requires and how it flows into your subcontracts.
FAR 9.405-2
Restrictions on subcontracting
A subcontract over $45,000 (other than commercially available off-the-shelf items) with a debarred or suspended contractor requires a compelling reason, with written notice to the contracting officer, before award. The practical control is an exclusion check before every subcontract.
FAR 52.209-6
The clause in your contract
Proposed first-tier subcontractors must disclose whether they or their principals are debarred, suspended, or proposed for debarment, and the clause flows down into covered subcontracts. The disclosure comes from the sub. The diligence file that shows you checked is yours to keep.
The file
The question comes later
When a contracting officer, an IG, or your own counsel asks how you knew a sub was not excluded at award, the answer is a dated record, not a memory. Screenshots get lost and carry no source date or seal; a sealed record has a hash and a URL.
The compliance file
From sub list to contract file.
01
Start from reported subawards
Enter your UEI or legal name. USAspending can suggest subcontractors already reported against your prime awards. You confirm each match and complete the roster from your own records because public reporting is partial.
02
A sealed record per sub
Each sub is checked when monitoring starts and every morning after against the latest successfully validated SAM.gov Exclusions public extract available to that check. Every record separates the check time from the source as-of and retrieval times.
03
Alerts and the monthly digest
If a sub's status changes mid-performance, the alert lands in your inbox. Once a month, a digest states what was checked and what changed, even when the answer is nothing. That email is itself a dated trace of the screening.
04
The packet for the contract file
Per period, one sealed packet: the monitored subcontractors with their monitoring dates, every check that ran, the sources each check consulted, and the changes. A PDF a reviewer can read and a permanent URL anyone can open to verify the seal.
Where SAM.gov ends
SAM.gov is free, and checking it yourself works.
Nothing in the FAR requires a paid tool. What we sell is the documentation: checks that run daily across every active sub without consuming staff time, permanent records that outlast personnel turnover and laptop refreshes, and a packet that collects a period's screening into one document. A record is evidence of diligence, not a verdict, and we do not determine eligibility or responsibility. The methodology page states exactly how checks work and where their limits are.