Provenance / scope / limitations
USASpending API v2 + bulk downloads are free and require no API key. Founding loaded slice: Texas place of performance, award types A–D, action dates 2025-11-01 through 2026-11-01, search award amount at least $250,000; only 600 detail-checked candidates in the founding expiry window were loaded. This is a partial slice. Vendor full federal footprints have not been established.
DIR via data.texas.gov is the structured Texas source. LBB and SmartBuy have no verified bulk/API route; hand-verified capture is sample-only. ESBD corroborates notices and is never the system of record for an expiry.
No operator key verified, no SAM load, no SAM data claimed. The app holds no SAM credentials. FOUO and Sensitive data are never requested or stored. Opted-out entities may be absent from Public data; absence never means unregistered.
Sourced is the matching upstream population. Loaded is rows in this base. Published is eligible rows visible in the app: published flag plus source, source identifier, and source as-of. Different counts are not interchangeable.
Dates reflect the source record. Options and extensions exist; an end date does not establish that a contract will be recompeted, renewed, or terminated.
| Source | Sourced | Loaded | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| USASpending | 10778 | 4637 | 4637 |
| DIR | 5179 dataset rows · prior load note, live count unverified | 764 | 764 |
| LBB · sample only | No universe count | 0 | 0 |
| SmartBuy-Statewide · sample only | No universe count | 0 | 0 |
Counts as documented on 2026-11-01. Federal count uses the founding filters and counts sourced awards before the loader’s expiry selection; it is not an expiry-window count. The live count disagrees with the older source registry’s 15,339 claim; that discrepancy is retained below. The registry documents half-year search partitions; the partition execution has not been independently re-run. DIR’s dataset-row count and loaded contract/vendor pairs have different grains. Texas source hosts could not be resolved during verification, so neither the live DIR count nor contract-page term/expiration comparison passed verification.
U.S. Department of the Treasury / Bureau of the Fiscal Service · Cadence: Nightly (DATA Act Broker)
Federal contract awards (types A-D). v5 slice (2026-11-10 full-Texas load, JR GO): Texas place of performance, action dates 2025-11-01..2026-11-01, search-stub Award Amount >= $250,000 -> 15,443 sourced / 10,832 unique stubs (founding 2026-11-01: 15,339 / 10,778; delta is index refresh). Founding 600 already loaded excluded by generated_unique_award_id; remaining 10,233 stubs detail-checked per-award via /api/v2/awards/{id} (0 failures); PoP current end date verified in the EXTENDED 18-month window 2026-11-01..2028-04-30 -> 4,037 newly loaded. Base totals after v5: 5,401 contracts (4,637 USASpending + 764 DIR), 5,400 expirations, 2,572 vendors, 32 agencies. DIR kept separate. Search cap ~10,000/query - partitioned in two date halves as at founding.
Texas Department of Information Resources via Texas Open Data Portal · Cadence: As published by DIR on data.texas.gov
5,179 dataset rows deduped to 764 distinct contract_number + primary_vendor_name pairs, all loaded 2026-11-01. Expiry = dataset field contract_termination_date, labelled published_end; DIR pages carry term vs expiration separately (not in this dataset).
Texas Legislative Budget Board · Cadence: Nightly CAPPS integration (per LBB)
197,000+ contracts / ~$357.2B per LBB. NO bulk load at founding - hand-verified sample only, plus a written export-route query. Never scrape around its login.
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (SPD) · Cadence: As published
TxSmartBuy term / managed / TXMAS contracts. Hand-verified capture only at founding.
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts via Texas SmartBuy · Cadence: Daily
Solicitation + award notices >= $25,000. Corroboration only - never the system of record for an expiry.
U.S. General Services Administration · Cadence: Monthly full extract / daily deltas (extracts); API live
GATED: no key held, no load performed, no SAM field populated at founding. Public tier only - FOUO/Sensitive permanently out. Opted-out entities are absent from Public data; absence never proves unregistered.
Rollups without n, period, and source set are withheld. Personal vendor contact details are never a product field or a lead list.
