A bid for a United States federal contract has to prove, component by component, the origin of what goes into a product. A spreadsheet sees neither the threshold that changes with the delivery year, nor a regulatory text amended since it was last read. This application keeps that file for you, without ever signing it in your place.
Who the application is for
For businesses bidding on United States federal contracts or on federally assisted infrastructure projects, who need to document the American origin of their products' components to meet federal domestic-content rules.
What the application does
- Pulls components from a bill of materials, going down into sub-assemblies, and tells apart a purchased sub-assembly — a component in its own right — from one you manufacture, where it is its own parts that count.
- Calculates the amount of components that would need to be requalified as American in origin to cross the delivery year's threshold, and isolates what could come from components with no declared origin.
- Projects the situation year by year and indicates from when the file would fall below the threshold, if nothing in it changes.
- Compares the date of each regulatory text's last amendment to the date you last read it, and flags a text to be reread, without ever correcting a threshold on its own.
- Prepares the statement for the certificate required by the regulation, split between products of American origin, foreign products, and products containing a component treated as critical.
- Compares the length of a public comment period to its regulatory minimum, and flags waivers whose comment deadline is closing soon.
Day to day
- Build a file from a bill of materials, checking the preview of what would be created before confirming.
- Fill in the missing origins: a component with no declared origin counts as foreign.
- Read the analysis showing what would need to be requalified, and what is already available among the unknown origins.
- Keep an eye on the regulatory watch and click "I have just reread this text" once the text has actually been reopened.
- Prepare the certificate statement, check every line, and have it reviewed before signing it yourself.
What the application does not do
- It never says whether a product is compliant or not: it measures, it certifies nothing.
- It does not correct any threshold or regulatory text on its own: an amendment date does not say what changed, and it is up to you to reopen the text.
- It never guesses a component's origin from its supplier's country: a supplier can perfectly well deliver parts made elsewhere.
- It does not sign any certificate: it fills it in, signing remains a human act that binds whoever signs it.
- It does not replace the advice of your contracting officer, your lawyer or your adviser specialised in United States federal procurement: the texts evolve and how they apply depends on each contract.
Free and full editions
The free edition already lets you declare a file component by component, with its origin, its cost and its share of iron and steel, read the threshold in force for the delivery year with its source, and keep a waiver register. The full edition installs on top and adds automatic retrieval from a bill of materials, the analysis of what would need requalifying, the regulatory text watch, the certificate statement preparation, and tracking of waiver comment deadlines.
Getting started
Gather the contract or programme concerned, the planned delivery year, the product's bill of materials, and the origin evidence for each component. Have your adviser review the first file and the first certificate before using them for a real bid: no statement produced by this application has yet been filed with a federal agency.
Going further
To find out whether this application suits your business and how to activate it, compare the plans or write to us.