Public-record-to-pursuit crosswalk

The authority records

Federal Acquisition Regulation

United States · Current FAR baseline; FAC 2026-01 effective March 13, 2026. Federal Acquisition Regulation defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

FAR Part 5 — Publicizing Contract Actions

United States · Current within FAC 2026-01. FAR Part 5 — Publicizing Contract Actions defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

FAR Part 9 — Contractor Qualifications

United States · Current within FAC 2026-01. FAR Part 9 — Contractor Qualifications defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

FAR Part 15 — Contracting by Negotiation

United States · Current within FAC 2026-01. FAR Part 15 — Contracting by Negotiation defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

FAR Part 19 — Small Business Programs

United States · Current within FAC 2026-01. FAR Part 19 — Small Business Programs defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

FAR Part 42 — Contract Administration and Audit Services

United States · Current within FAC 2026-01. FAR Part 42 — Contract Administration and Audit Services defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

FAR 3.104 — Procurement Integrity

United States · Current within FAC 2026-01. FAR 3.104 — Procurement Integrity defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

FAR Subpart 9.5 — Organizational and Consultant Conflicts of Interest

United States · Current within FAC 2026-01. FAR Subpart 9.5 — Organizational and Consultant Conflicts of Interest defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

SAM.gov Contract Opportunities

United States · Current public system record reviewed July 19, 2026. SAM.gov Contract Opportunities defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

SAM.gov Contract Data

United States · Current public system record reviewed July 19, 2026. SAM.gov Contract Data defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

SAM.gov Entity Registration and Unique Entity ID

United States · Current registration process reviewed July 19, 2026. SAM.gov Entity Registration and Unique Entity ID defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

USAspending Federal Award Data

United States · Current data-source record reviewed July 19, 2026. USAspending Federal Award Data defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

SBA Size Standards and 13 CFR Part 121

United States · SBA guidance updated May 5, 2026. SBA Size Standards and 13 CFR Part 121 defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

SBA Prime and Subcontracting Guidance

United States · Current guidance reviewed July 19, 2026. SBA Prime and Subcontracting Guidance defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

GSA Multiple Award Schedule

United States · Current program record reviewed July 19, 2026. GSA Multiple Award Schedule defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

GAO Bid Protest Process

United States · Current process record reviewed July 19, 2026. GAO Bid Protest Process defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

48 CFR — Federal Acquisition Regulations System

United States · Current electronic CFR record reviewed July 19, 2026. 48 CFR — Federal Acquisition Regulations System defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

Federal Procurement Data System and SAM.gov Contract Data Boundary

United States · Current legacy and integrated-system record reviewed July 19, 2026. Federal Procurement Data System and SAM.gov Contract Data Boundary defines an authoritative part of the federal acquisition, award-data, small-business, vehicle, or contract-administration environment. The record must be read with its current text, scope, status, and procurement-specific facts.

The operating-domain lens

Acquisition forecast and market shaping

The pre-solicitation work of following budgets, forecasts, agency plans, notices, industry engagement, and procurement signals without treating any one signal as a committed acquisition. The crosswalk links 4 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Opportunity discovery and notice control

The operating discipline for finding official notices, attachments, amendments, questions, dates, and agency instructions and preserving the controlling record throughout a pursuit. The crosswalk links 4 capabilities and 2 authority records.

Qualification and go/no-go governance

The accountable decision to pursue, hold, partner, or decline based on scope, customer, vehicle, eligibility, capabilities, capacity, competition, economics, risk, and evidence. The crosswalk links 7 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Account, incumbent, and award intelligence

The analysis of agencies, offices, appropriations, awards, obligations, contractors, vehicles, and historical actions with source and aggregation boundaries preserved. The crosswalk links 6 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Capture planning and stakeholder strategy

The governed pursuit process connecting win themes, customer needs, competitive position, actions, reviews, relationships, teaming, solution, price, and solicitation readiness. The crosswalk links 7 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Contract vehicle and task-order access

The evidence needed to distinguish a vehicle, contract, SIN or scope, holder status, team arrangement, ordering rules, task-order opportunity, and entity authority to compete. The crosswalk links 7 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Teaming and subcontracting

The partner-discovery, due-diligence, role, workshare, agreement, flowdown, proposal, and post-award process connecting primes, subcontractors, mentors, protégés, and channel partners. The crosswalk links 6 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Solicitation analysis and proposal response

The controlled process for reading the solicitation and amendments, extracting requirements, assigning work, managing content, reviewing compliance and quality, and producing the authorized submission. The crosswalk links 5 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Cost, pricing, and indirect rates

The development and review of price-to-win context, estimates, cost volumes, labor, material, subcontracts, indirect rates, bases, assumptions, certifications, and retained support. The crosswalk links 4 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Registration, representations, and small-business status

The controlled maintenance of entity registration, identifiers, representations, certifications, size facts, NAICS context, exclusions, credentials, and renewal dates without treating self-reported data as a procurement determination. The crosswalk links 5 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Source selection, debriefings, and protests

The post-submission record of evaluation, award notice, debriefing, questions, protected information, protest forums, deadlines, decisions, and corrective action. The crosswalk links 5 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Post-award accounting and contract administration

The distinct operating layer for authorized direction, funding, time, cost, billing, subcontracts, deliverables, changes, records, closeout, and performance after award. The crosswalk links 5 capabilities and 3 authority records.

How to use the crosswalk

Determine applicability with qualified owners, identify affected records and workflows, map each expectation to an accountable decision and retained evidence, then use capability and organization pages to frame a technology evaluation. A mapping is editorial navigation—not a conformity or legal conclusion.

Methodology

1. Define the market boundary, exclusions, operating models, and capability taxonomy before classifying organizations.
2. Require an approved official source for organization inclusion and each documented capability.
3. Keep authority sources, provider claims, independent observations, editorial synthesis, and unknowns in separate evidence states.
4. Use one primary operating model per organization while retaining adjacent scope in the narrative record.
5. Preserve source URLs, review dates, material changes, limitations, and correction history.

Limitations

• The maintained population is substantial but not claimed to be a complete global market.
• Official public documentation may omit available capabilities or lag product and service changes.
• Documented positioning does not measure product depth, configured availability, independent performance, implementation effort, customer outcome, or commercial terms.
• Authority mappings are editorial research aids and do not establish buyer-specific applicability or product conformity.
• No organization may purchase inclusion, classification, finding, or correction outcome.

Reproducibility and updates

The report is reproduced from the provider registry, normalized facts and evidence, authority and domain records, and the publication taxonomy. A material change requires a dated source and editorial explanation. Historical values remain available through the change ledger rather than disappearing when the current record changes.