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The Federal Readiness Score is a 100-point diagnostic — 62 lenses across 12 categories, computed from public federal data. Here is what goes in, what stays out, and what we will never claim.
Methodology 9.0 · indicator rubric 5.0 · what changed
Registration & Identity
Is the company registered, current, and unambiguous in the government’s own systems?
Certifications & Set-Asides
Which socioeconomic certifications and set-aside eligibilities are on record.
Compliance Posture
Publicly observable FedRAMP, CMMC, and SOC 2 signals — verified and self-reported, kept distinct.
Market Fit & TAM
How the company’s offering maps to what agencies actually buy.
Competitive Position
How the company sits among the vendors already winning its market.
Financial Readiness
Public signals of capacity to take on federal work.
Past Performance
The public federal track record — engagements, agencies, recency.
Organizational Capability
Public signals of the team and structure behind the offering.
Product Architecture
How the product’s publicly described architecture aligns with federal deployment models.
Contract Vehicle Strategy
Presence on and proximity to the vehicles agencies buy through.
Channel & Partnership Readiness
Public teaming, reseller, and integrator relationships.
Intelligence & Pipeline Signals
Forward-looking public signals — solicitations, awards momentum, program activity.
Five tiers, one score
Every score from 0 to 100 falls in one of five tiers, shown here in ascending order. A tier describes where a company stands on the public record today, not whether it qualifies for anything — no tier is a failing grade.
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Not Federal Ready
No federal evidence on the public record yet. The first work is registration, and telling the diagnostic what public data cannot see.
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Pre-Federal
Early in the federal journey. Foundation work — registration, first certifications, a first target agency — is in flight.
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Federal Emerging
An active presence in SAM.gov and USASpending, and a moderate fit between what the company sells and what agencies buy.
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Federal Active
Live federal traction: engagements on the record across more than one agency.
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Federal Established
A strong incumbent posture across the categories the score covers.
The score and its tier are computed in the app. Searching any vendor there is free and needs no login. The vendor profiles on this site publish the public-data signals behind a score, not the number.
Total Federal Footprint
A company’s Total Federal Footprint in the app adds up four components:
- Lifetime prime contract obligations. Dollars actually obligated on the company’s prime contracts, rolled up across its registered entities.
- Active single-award IDIQ ceilings. Counted because only this company can draw against a single-award ceiling.
- Multi-award IDIQ obligations to date. The company’s realized draws on shared vehicles — never the vehicle’s program ceiling.
- First-tier sub-awards. Reported under FFATA above the $30,000 threshold; lower tiers are not captured.
Multi-award program ceilings are shown only as Vehicle Access — a shared ceiling is permission to compete, not money obligated — and are never summed into a footprint total.
The vendor profiles on this site publish none of this total. They publish lifetime prime contract obligations as USASpending reports them for the profiled recipient, labelled as such, with the date they were read. The app computes its footprint from live data and its own entity rollup, so its prime figure for the same company can differ from the one on a profile here.
Annualized magnitude
Where a contract's magnitude must be compared across different periods of performance, we annualize it as Mannual = Vtotal ÷ (months ÷ 12), following the approach in Chenega Federal Systems v. United States, B-417037.2 (2019).
Supplier performance risk scores
The government's Supplier Performance Risk System is government-only. We never claim visibility into it.
Classified contracts
Classified awards are exempt from public reporting under FAR 4.606(c). They are not in our data, so they are not in your score.
Attestation dressed as verification
A company saying it is compliant is not the same as a government record saying so. We render the two differently, everywhere, always.
The scoring internals themselves
Scoring runs server-side. Clients receive final scores, bands, and narratives only — never indicator IDs, weights, thresholds, or evaluation logic. That is an architectural commitment, not a configuration setting, and a build gate fails the release if any of it reaches a public page.
Solid check, source, and observation date — a government-published record we observed ourselves.
Outlined badge, no check — the company says so; no public register confirms it.
No public signal either way.
- Federal obligations data reflects FPDS reporting, which carries a standard +90-day lag.
- Sub-awards enter the app’s footprint only as first-tier awards reported under FFATA above the $30,000 threshold. The vendor profiles on this site exclude them.
- Classified awards are exempt from public reporting (FAR 4.606(c)) and are absent from all figures.
- Every vendor profile on this site prints the date its figures were read from USASpending.
- GovExpress is a diagnostic. We are not an assessor, a 3PAO, or a certification body, and nothing on this platform certifies anything.
Methodology 9.0
The current methodology is version 9.0 — the version the app stamps on every footprint it computes — and the indicator rubric behind it is version 5.0. When the methodology changes, the change is listed here.
Changes to the published methodology, newest first
- Score tiers published on this page: the five tiers of the 0–100 score, in order, and what each one means.
- Every vendor profile on this site now prints the date its figures were read from USASpending, and — where enough profiled contractors share its primary NAICS code — compares the company with those peers.
- Footprint composition stated in full, and the figure this site’s vendor profiles publish renamed to what it is: prime contract obligations, not the app’s Total Federal Footprint.
- Tiers renamed and recalibrated when the scorer began reading live obligation data: Not Federal Ready, Pre-Federal, Federal Emerging, Federal Active and Federal Established replace Pre-Federal, Early Stage, Developing, Federal-Ready and Established.
- The commitment that scoring internals — indicator identifiers, weights, thresholds and evaluation logic — never appear on a public page.
The CMMC brief
The same discipline applied to one suspended deadline: what the 13 July 2026 memo paused, what DFARS 252.204-7012 still requires regardless, which assessment path a contract puts you on, and why scoping decides the cost. Sourced from the primary record.