EditorialPolicy
How we create, verify, and maintain government contracting content
Definition
Our editorial standards describe how we prioritize primary evidence, disclose commercial perspective, date volatile facts, and correct errors. No summary replaces the controlling government source, solicitation, or vendor terms.
Content Standards
Primary Sources First
We prioritize current .gov sources for regulatory and procurement facts and first-party vendor materials for commercial comparisons. A missing citation should not be interpreted as official verification.
Review and Accountability
Material content changes are reviewed for source support, internal consistency, and clarity. A named specialist or professional-review claim is shown only when that review has been documented.
Dated Verification
Volatile regulatory, product, review, and competitor facts are assigned review dates when they are checked. A date records that review; it is not a guarantee that the source has not changed since.
Transparent Corrections
When errors are identified, we correct them promptly. Material corrections are noted on the affected page. Readers can report inaccuracies through our contact page.
How We Create Different Content Types
Guides
Guides are organized around a distinct user decision or task. Material regulatory claims should link to primary sources, distinguish general education from solicitation-specific rules, and state when human or agency judgment controls.
Answers (Q&A)
Quick answers are intended to resolve a narrow question directly. Thin or insufficiently supported entries can be excluded from indexing, while useful entries should expose their relevant source and next-step context.
Glossary Terms
Glossary entries provide a short definition and practical context. Official definitions are linked when a maintained source record is available; readers should use the controlling regulation or solicitation for decisions.
Comparison & Review Pages
Gov Contract Finder publishes its own comparison pages and discloses that relationship. We use public first-party vendor material, label missing public information, date the review, and direct buyers to verify current terms with each vendor.
Our Primary Data Sources
We rely on these official government sources for regulatory, procedural, and data accuracy:
SAM.gov
System for Award ManagementContract opportunities and entity registrations
SBA.gov
Small Business AdministrationSmall business size standards, set-aside programs, certification requirements
FAR/DFARS
Federal Acquisition RegulationProcurement rules and procedures
GSA.gov
General Services AdministrationSchedules and procurement guidance
USAspending.gov
Federal Spending DataFederal spending data and contract award history
FPDS.gov
Federal Procurement Data SystemHistorical contracting data
Census Bureau
U.S. Census BureauNAICS code classifications and industry standards
Use of AI in Content Creation
We use AI tools to assist with topic research, drafting, summarization, and editorial illustrations. An article may publish automatically without human review, but only after the automated evidence, citation, quotation, image, duplication, disclosure, structured-data, and technical SEO checks all pass. A failed or ambiguous check keeps the article as an unpublished draft.
Third-party reporting may help identify a topic, but factual claims in automatically published content must be tied to stored evidence from reachable primary government sources. Numeric, date, regulatory, deadline, company, award, and quotation claims receive stricter checks. The system treats anything it cannot support as a failure, not as permission to publish.
AI-assisted content is clearly labeled. A person is named as a reviewer only when a real, authenticated review record exists; the absence of that label means no human review is being claimed. The organization byline is Gov Contract Finder Editorial Team.
Publication and indexing approval occur together only after validation succeeds. Source evidence, content hashes, and the validator version are retained so a later change can be audited. Material edits reset approval and require the complete check again.
Report an Error or Suggest an Update
If you find incorrect information, outdated data, or a missing source, contact us with the page URL and a description of the issue. We investigate reports, correct or unpublish unsupported material, and note material corrections on the affected page.
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