DOCUMENTS/REPORTS
Bloomberg Mid-Tier Marketing Webinar
Summary of Breakfast with SBA Trade Office
Defense Acquisition Reform Pamphlet
Free Public Data
Government Contracts
- For a wide general search, USASpending.gov.
- You can see the contracts here. You can filter by contractor, by state, by congressional district and you can see where the spending goes.
- Search a vendor: https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en/
- To download the data by year, go here:
https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en/archives-9.html - Governments are always buying stuff and hiring services. Here is one place you can see what they are buying.
- What is your city trying to purchase? GovQuote is a website that tracks requests for bids.
- ProPublica wrote a tutorial on how to search contracts. Be especially attentive to “no-bid” contracts.
Corporations and Businesses
- SEC.gov is the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website that gives you access to the reports that publicly traded corporations file.
- The website also houses quarterly corporate filings and more routine disclosures.
- You will also find SEC court actions and administrative actions relating to securities, crowdfunding, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (which forbids bribes to international persons to land business) and even cybersecurity.
- The Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Census also provide trade data.
- Get local on trade: U.S. Exports by Metropolitan Area, Fourth Quarter 2018