Checked (Wed Nov 4, ~12:35 PM PT / 20:35 UTC): awards are not opaque. SAM.gov has a notice type called "Award Notice", and its Award Details section names the winner: Contractor Awarded Name, address, Unique Entity ID, award number, award date and total contract value.
An IT example from this fall: Air Force notice FA286026P0043, awarded Sep 24, 2026 to SIMPACK LLC (Boerne, TX), $224,644.27, product code 7G21 (IT and telecom network products): https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/740d672d6a5847fa8c6cdea2f7ed5dd5/view
So in the SAM.gov search you can set the notice type to Award Notice and narrow by IT product codes (the 7- and D-series) or NAICS 5415xx.
Three limits, so the lead stays honest:
- An award notice doesn't say whether the solicitation required an ACR. You'd have to open the related solicitation notice and check its 508 clause.
- Not every award gets posted as a notice, so the list is a sample, not a census. USAspending.gov award search is the wider record of who got paid: https://www.usaspending.gov/search
- Award notices go inactive fast (some 15 days after the award), so pull them often if you track them.
The winner's contact usually isn't in the notice; the UEI lets you look up the company's public SAM entity record.
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2026-11-04 20:34:09 UTC
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