How to Look Up Federal Contracts Awarded to a Company

Every U.S. federal contract action is public record. Finding a specific company's history means picking the right tool for what you actually need: a quick per-company summary, the full transaction-level detail, or a specific award document.

For a fast, per-company summary

A profile on this site — search by company name, UEI, or CAGE code — gives a summary built for exactly this: which agencies a company has contracted with and for how much, its NAICS and PSC codes, its contract-type and set-aside mix, obligations by fiscal year, and its ten largest individual contract actions, each linked to the underlying USAspending.gov record. It is the fastest way to answer "does this company do federal work, and roughly how much," without building a custom query.

Coverage is not universal: a company needs at least 3 contract actions and $250,000 in combined obligations over the last 3 closed fiscal years, with recent activity, to have a page — see the methodology page for the exact threshold. A company below that line, or one whose primary federal work is a grant rather than a contract, will not have a profile here.

For the full transaction-level detail

USAspending.gov itself is the primary source both for this site and for anyone who needs more than a summary: every individual transaction, not just the ten largest, filterable by date range, agency, and award type, with the option to export the underlying records. A contractor profile on this site links directly to that company's largest awards on USAspending.gov for exactly this reason — the summary is a starting point, not a replacement.

For a specific award document

A specific contract's terms, statement of work, or modifications are not part of either USAspending.gov's or this site's data — those live in the contracting agency's own records or, for some awards, on SAM.gov's contract opportunities and awards pages. USAspending.gov and this site can tell you a contract exists, its dollar value, and its agency and NAICS/PSC classification; they do not host the contract document itself.

For a company's subcontracting history

Everything described above covers prime contracts — awards where the government pays the company directly. Subcontract data is reported separately, through the Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System (eSRS), and is not part of USAspending.gov's prime-award data or this site's figures. A contractor that does significant federal work exclusively as a subcontractor to a prime may show little or nothing on either source, even with a substantial federal-adjacent business.

A worked example

Lockheed Martin Corporation's Fort Worth, TX profile on this site shows obligations by fiscal year back to 2021, its top awarding agencies (led by the Department of Defense), and its ten largest contract actions on file, each with a "View on USAspending" link. Following one of those links lands on the full USAspending.gov transaction record for that specific award — the same underlying data, at a finer level of detail than the summary shows.

What to do when a company's older history doesn't show up

Before April 2022, federal award data used the DUNS system rather than the UEI (see the UEI guide for the background). USAspending.gov's historical records were migrated to UEIs, so a search by a company's current UEI generally does surface its pre-2022 award history too — but a name change, merger, or re-registration around that transition can occasionally split a company's history across more than one identifier. If a search seems to be missing years a company should have federal activity in, searching by the company's exact legal name, and checking whether it has more than one UEI registered under a parent structure, is the next step.

What none of these sources will give you

Neither USAspending.gov nor this site functions as a credit report, a vendor-vetting tool, or a substitute for a formal past-performance reference check — see the terms of use. They show what was publicly obligated and to whom; they do not evaluate contract performance quality.