SAM.gov Contract Awards Data

It is the American federal government telling you what electrical equipment it buys, from whom, and for how much - recorded by the buyer rather than inferred by an analyst. SAM.gov, the System for Award Management operated by the US General Services Administration, is the single authoritative registry for United States federal contracting: entity registrations, contract opportunities, and the award notices that close them. Every cabinet department, military service and independent agency that purchases wire, switchgear, relays or power-distribution equipment posts the requirement here and later records the outcome.

The registry reads two directions at once, and both matter commercially. Forward-looking, it is a pipeline: presolicitation and sources-sought notices surface requirements while they are still being shaped. Backward-looking, it is a ledger: award notices carry the obligated amount, the award date, the winning vendor's legal name and Unique Entity Identifier, and frequently a description paragraph stating exactly which equipment and installation work was bought - medium-voltage switchgear replacements appear in precisely that depth. Electrical purchases isolate cleanly along two axes: Product Service Code group 61 (Electric Wire, Power Distribution Equipment) and electrical NAICS codes such as 221121 (Electric Bulk Power Transmission and Control) and 335314 (Relay and Industrial Control Manufacturing).

Within Datadory's catalog - 1,744 datasets averaging 7.81 - the Electrical Components & Equipment slice holds 22 primary records and this one scores 8/10, ranking fifth on the best electrical components & equipment datasets list. Fifth is the honest slot: it is the only demand-side record on a shelf where everything else describes supply. Get a sample of this dataset scoped to the codes, agencies and states you sell into.

Three observed notices, shown as they arrive:

# award notice - the row that closes a buy, delivered shape
title            : Replace PWT Switchgear
solicitation     : FA9101-16-R-0034
notice_type      : Award Notice
psc_code         : 61 - ELECTRIC WIRE, POWER DISTRIB EQPT
naics_code       : 221121
publish_date     : 2016-06-24T13:36:00-04:00
award_amount     : 5432331
award_date       : 2016-06-15
award_number     : FA9101-16-C-0041
awardee_name     : Siemens Industry Inc.
awardee_uei      : JZXZSN3BBL98

# second award notice - same dictionary, medium-voltage scope
title            : Replace ETF-B Exhaust Medium Voltage Switchgear
solicitation     : FA9101-16-R-0069
publish_date     : 2016-11-17T17:43:27-05:00
naics_code       : 221121

# pre-award signal row - the requirement while it is still forming
title            : Z -- Repair Sectionalizing Station D
solicitation     : PR0705
publish_date     : 2006-09-11T00:00:00-04:00
notice_type      : Sources Sought
naics_code       : 238210

Read the anatomy rather than the values. The first row is a completed transaction: a titled requirement, its solicitation number, the classification pair that makes it findable (PSC 61, NAICS 221121), and then the settlement - $5,432,331 obligated, awarded 2016-06-15 to Siemens Industry Inc., keyed by UEI JZXZSN3BBL98. Money, date and counterparty on one row is what turns a notice feed into an account map. The second row shows the same dictionary carrying a different cut of scope - a medium-voltage exhaust switchgear replacement whose full description text rides the record even when award columns post later. The third row is the early-warning shape: a 2006 sources-sought notice, published while the requirement is still negotiable, which is the row a business-development desk wants to see first.

Placeholders appear where a column is filled at delivery scope - tell us the PSC codes, NAICS codes, agencies and states you sell into, and the sample returns those notices cut exactly to that frame.

Fifteen documented fields, defined in the table below, and four of them do the structural work. psc.code and naics.code are the isolation axes - group 61 plus the electrical NAICS families - that reduce a government-wide registry to the electrical equipment trade. award.amount is the column that makes sizing arithmetic possible, and award.awardee.ueiSAM is the quiet hero: a persistent company identifier that survives renames and reorganizations, so ten years of switchgear awards roll up to the correct corporate winner without fuzzy string matching.

The prose field earns its width too. descriptions.content preserves the buyer's own statement of scope, which is where 'replace medium-voltage switchgear' separates from generic facilities maintenance - classification gets you to the aisle, description tells you what is on it. solicitation.setAside flags 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB and WOSB requirements, and placeOfPerformance geolocates the work. Additional fields on request: attachment references, points of contact and agency-office details are pinned against live records when your sample is cut, and column naming locks there.

• Geography: United States federal government-wide. Every civilian agency and military service buys through this registry, and place-of-performance values locate the work domestically - occasionally overseas where installations require it.
• Temporal window: active notices from the present back through multi-year archives; the observed rows above reach to 2006, and continuous series accumulate across whatever delivery cadence you set.
• Granularity: one row per notice or award, filterable by PSC, NAICS, agency, set-aside and state - nothing pre-aggregated, so an obligation-by-agency matrix or a year-over-year win-rate curve computes downstream with plain group-bys.

That footprint is why this record sits alone in its slice. Distributor catalogs describe what can be bought; economic censuses describe what was sold in aggregate; this is the only record in the industry pool where a specific buyer, a specific dollar figure and a specific vendor meet on one row - which is also why the best-in-industry ranking calls it the sole demand-side entry.

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Every delivery ships flattened to one row per notice with the dictionary above unchanged, typed columns throughout, and sample rows for validation - so an award table joins onto your CRM accounts on the UEI key at the first attempt instead of after a parsing week. Name your PSC codes, NAICS codes, agencies and states when you request the sample; it comes back cut to that exact shape before any commitment.

Ranked by how directly one row settles the day job:

1. Federal pipeline development. Work the front of the registry - sources-sought and presolicitation rows inside PSC 61 - so pursuit begins while the requirement is still negotiable (data for sales growth teams).
2. Win-rate and competitor analysis. Join awardee UEIs across years of switchgear, wire and relay awards to measure who holds each agency account, at what values, and where incumbency finally breaks.
3. Set-aside market mapping. Split the electrical book by 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB and WOSB designation to see which requirements you can bid alone and where teaming is the only door (data for competitive intel and product teams).
4. Bid pricing and market sizing. Anchor proposals and TAM models on realized obligated amounts for comparable equipment scopes rather than list-price guesswork (market researchers use cases).
5. Territory planning. Rank place-of-performance geographies by obligation volume to place field service capacity where the work actually lands.

For contrast within the same shelf: the Digi-Key API (Product Information V4) answers what components cost and where they stock, while this record answers which arm of the federal government is buying, from whom, for how much - supply and demand, stacked.

Sales growth teams get the rarest artifact in B2B data: a demand list where the buyer, the budget and the incumbent sit on the same row as the requirement. Competitive intelligence teams get attributable wins and losses by agency, priced. Market researchers get a federal electrical equipment market sized from obligations under PSC 61 and NAICS 335, with set-aside splits most commercial sources never publish. Data scientists get typed columns and a stable entity key - the difference between a modeling afternoon and an extraction quarter. Investors and quants get obligated federal dollars as a dated demand signal for equipment makers and distributors. Across all of them the constant is the same: one dictionary, one row per notice, classifications that hold - so adding an agency or a state to scope is a filter change, not a schema migration. Persona-by-persona detail lives on the Electrical Components & Equipment data hub.

This record reads best against the supply side it prices. The Digi-Key Electronics product catalog and the ECIA electronic component sales data describe what the channel stocks and how the trade is trending; this registry describes where the government's own electrical dollars land. The data.gov federal open data catalog is the wider discovery layer beneath it - hundreds of thousands of records, this one's home turf included. For a head-to-head, the SAM.gov vs Farnell comparison works the demand-versus-supply contrast in full.