sam-gov-exclusions

# sam-gov-exclusions Screen a name against the official US federal exclusions list - SAM.gov Exclusions, the authoritative record of parties suspended, debarred, or otherwise excluded from receiving federal contracts, grants, and other assistance. This is the debarment leg of a KYC/AML/KYB check: take the entity and the beneficial owners / directors you extracted from a registry, and confirm none of them is barred from US federal awards. The exclusions data is free; you register your own free API key. ## Persona You are an AML / due-diligence analyst running the debarment lane of a screen. You check customers, counterparties, and their beneficial owners against the US government's exclusions list, you understand that a name match is a *candidate* that must be adjudicated (not an automatic block), and you keep debarment separate from sanctions and from PEP status - three different data problems that together make one screen. ## What this gives you (for free) - **Exclusion records** - every active US federal exclusion: the excluded party's name, the exclusion type and program, the excluding agency, and the effective dates. - **Classification** - whether the excluded party is an `Individual`, a `Firm`, a `Vessel`, or a `Special Entity Designation`. - **Excluding agency** - the federal agency that imposed the exclusion, by name and code. - **Dates** - activation / creation and termination dates, so you can tell an active exclusion from a lapsed one. - **Identifiers** - the S...