# Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System The database Congress required the federal government to keep on the integrity of the companies and institutions it funds. For contractors and grantees above a statutory award threshold, it collects, for the most recent five-year period: qualifying criminal, civil and administrative dispositions; defaulted contracts; every suspension and debarment; every administrative agreement entered to resolve a suspension or debarment proceeding; findings that a contractor is not responsible; comparable state information; and federal sanctions listings. The notable feature is who may read it. The statute makes the database available to acquisition officials of federal agencies, to other government officials the General Services Administration determines appropriate, and on request to the chairman and ranking member of the relevant congressional committees. There is no public-access provision. The predecessor statute it replaced had directed that the information be posted, excluding past performance reviews, on a publicly available website; that language survives in the code only as an editorial note. The consequence is drawn out at [[How a Federal Contractor Is Suspended and Debarred]]: suspensions, debarments and voluntary exclusions go onto a public list, while the settlements that avoid all three are filed here. ## See also - [[How a Federal Contractor Is Suspended and Debarred]] - [[Administrative Agreement]] - [[System for Award Management]]