System for Award Management (SAM) Registered Entities
Overview
This dataset includes almost one million business entities and government entities registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) of U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
Each entity applying for federal awards as a prime awardee needs a registration with SAM, which allows bidding on government contracts and applying for federal assistance.
Each entity is registered with unique entity ID, legal name, dba name, company division, business address, point of contacts, business types, registration date, etc.
Dataset Information
Subject
Business and Economy
Jurisdiction
Federal
Data Provider
System for Award Management (SAM) of U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)
Dataset Details
The System for Award Management is an official website of the U.S. Government that is used to register to do business with the U.S. Government.
An entity refers to as prime contractors, organizations or individuals applying for assistance awards, those receiving loans, sole proprietors, corporations, partnerships, and any U.S. federal government agencies desiring to do business with the government.
Entity can also refer to a party that has been suspended or debarred, is covered by a prohibition or restriction, or is otherwise excluded from doing business with the government.
Contractors may be required to submit periodic reports on contracts that meet certain criteria. Two examples are Service Contract Reporting (SCR) and BioPreferred Reporting. Under SCR, contractors awarded cost-reimbursement, time-and-materials, and labor hour service contracts and orders at or above the simplified acquisition threshold must report information about the amount invoiced, labor hours expended, and subcontractor labor hours to help build a governmentwide service contract inventory.
Under the BioPreferred program, contractors awarded service or construction contracts must report purchases of biobased products in the execution of those contracts.
This dataset includes the entity registration data publicly available under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for those registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) to do business with the Federal government.
Each entity is registered with the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), legal name, dba name, company division, business address, point of contacts name and address, business types, registration date, etc.
Data.gov was launched in 2009 and is managed and hosted by the U.S. General Services. Under the Open Government Data Act, which is Title II of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, government data is required to be made available in open, machine-readable formats, while continuing to ensure privacy and security.
Statistics
The most popular serivices provided by registered entities of the System for Award Management (SAM) include
Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (2.11%), Engineering Services (2.04%), Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (1.58%), Custom Computer Programming Services (1.44%), Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels (1.12%), Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings (except Miniwarehouses) (0.99%), Computer Systems Design Services (0.98%), Janitorial Services (0.96%), and Professional and Management Development Training (0.95%).
While the majority of entities are located in United States of America (94.86%), there are also a large number of foreign entities in
Canada (0.32%), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (0.27%), Japan (0.21%), Korea, Republic of (0.21%), Germany (0.20%), Italy (0.16%), Afghanistan (0.15%), and Ukraine (0.14%).
The states with the largest number of entities are
California (9.35%), Texas (6.48%), Florida (5.68%), New York (4.53%), Virginia (4.41%), Illinois (3.71%), Georgia (3.59%), Pennsylvania (3.45%), Maryland (3.36%), Ohio (2.76%), North Carolina (2.75%), Michigan (2.42%), Washington (2.19%), New Jersey (2.15%), and Colorado (2.14%).
The most popular cities of all entites are
Washington (1.02%), New York (0.95%), Chicago (0.92%), Houston (0.91%), Atlanda (0.65%), Los Angeles (0.58%), San Diego (0.55%), San Antonio (0.45%), Miami (0.45%), Brooklyn (0.45%), Dallas (0.42%), and Austin (0.41%).
The total number of entities have a noticeable increase in recent years.
The number grew by 40% in 2019, 93% in 2020, and 27% in 2021, largely due to the demand generated by the pandemic.
We expect to see more entities being registered in the upcoming years.