We screened 980 real federal IT contractors against the U.S. sanctions list, twice: once the way the industry does it, and once the way we do it. The two methods disagree 17.2% of the time, and the industry method is the one that is wrong.
| Method | Vendors it accuses | How many accusations are true |
|---|---|---|
| Fuzzy name matchingThe industry standard. Strips Inc, LLC, Systems, Solutions, then matches on the tokens left over. | 169 17.2% of all vendors | None. Zero.Every single one of the 169 is a false accusation against a real company. |
| BrandShyp: exact resolution with abstentionAsserts a match only when a name resolves to exactly one entity. Refuses, with reasons, otherwise. | 0 | Not applicable.It made no accusations, because the evidence supported none. |
To be unambiguous about whose number the 17.2% is: it is not ours. Our engine flagged nobody. The 169 false accusations are what the common fuzzy-matching approach produces on this corpus, and we reproduced it faithfully so the cost of that method is visible instead of theoretical.
That is what "high recall" actually buys an analyst: a queue of accusations against innocent suppliers. It is why screening tools get switched off after a fortnight.
What a false flag actually looks like
The vendor names are withheld deliberately. See below.
| Flagged vendor | Matched against (sanctions list) | On what |
|---|---|---|
| Federal IT contractor (name withheld) | IK-MANAGEMENT LLC | MANAGEMENT |
| Federal IT contractor (name withheld) | DEV SOL | DEV |
| Federal IT contractor (name withheld) | LLC F2 INNOVATIONS | INNOVATIONS |
| Federal IT contractor (name withheld) | REI COMPANIA INTERNACIONAL, S.A. DE C.V. | REI |
| Federal IT contractor (name withheld) | T.F.M.C. THE FOOD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION LTD | MANAGEMENT |
| Federal IT contractor (name withheld) | COLLECTION CONCEPT S.A. | CONCEPT |
| Federal IT contractor (name withheld) | LLC F2 INNOVATIONS | INNOVATIONS |
| Federal IT contractor (name withheld) | CUBACANCUN CIGARS AND GIFT SHOPS | AND |
Why the vendor names are withheld
These are real companies, and none of them is a sanctions match. Publishing a page that puts their name next to the word "sanctions" would do them real harm, and it is exactly the harm this system exists to prevent. A false accusation is not made safe by labelling it a false positive. So we publish the collision and the reason, and not the accusation. Both sources are public, so anyone can reproduce the finding themselves.
And zero matches is NOT a clean bill of health
A subsidiary of a sanctioned parent does not share its parent's name. No name screen, ours included, can see that. It is a limit of name matching as a method, not of this dataset, and it is the reason the ownership graph matters more than the name list.
What the engine actually finds: you have fewer vendors than you think
The screen above is what we refuse to say. This is what we can say.
A vendor list is not a supplier list. Resolve the ownership and the competition thins out. Peraton and Guidehouse look like separate firms on a bid sheet. Both are held by Veritas Capital. Dell Federal Systems and NTT DATA Federal both roll up to Dell Technologies. Deloitte Consulting and Deloitte & Touche are one family. That is single-point-of-failure exposure hiding behind a long vendor list, and it is invisible until someone resolves the ownership graph.
| Owner holding several of these "separate" vendors | Vendors | Combined obligations |
|---|---|---|
| DELOITTE LLP | DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP · DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP | $1,776,348,268 |
| CACI INTERNATIONAL INC | CACI, INC. - FEDERAL · CACI ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS, LLC | $1,539,839,112 |
| VERITAS CAPITAL FUND MANAGEMENT, L.L.C. | PERATON INC. · GUIDEHOUSE INC. | $893,847,448 |
| ON ASSIGNMENT, INC. | ECS FEDERAL, LLC · IRON VINE SECURITY LLC | $319,299,150 |
| BY LIGHT PROFESSIONAL IT SERVICES LLC | COLE ENGINEERING SERVICES, INC. · BY LIGHT PROFESSIONAL IT SERVICES LLC | $174,062,600 |
| DELL TECHNOLOGIES INC. | DELL FEDERAL SYSTEMS L.P · NTT DATA SERVICES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, LLC | $130,355,901 |
And the largest "corporate family" in this data is a mistake. The federal award record reports Accenture Federal Services' parent as Novetta Solutions, which puts roughly $2.5 billion at the top of the table under the wrong name. In reality Accenture acquired Novetta.
We did not quietly repair it. If you trusted the Government's own record without checking, your supply-chain concentration analysis would open with a multi-billion-dollar error and you would never know. A number is only worth the provenance attached to it. That is the entire argument, and the data made it for us.
Method, stated so the denominator is never hidden: ownership is resolved for the top 250 vendors by obligation, which is 80.2% of the $52.6 billion in scope. Percentages are computed over that resolved pool, not the whole corpus. 0 vendors have no parent in the record, and we abstain on those rather than invent one.
The ownership layer, and why the record itself cannot be trusted
Parent company as recorded in the federal award data. We report what the record says. We do not assert that the record is right, and here is why that distinction matters.
The federal award data reports that Accenture Federal Services' parent is Novetta Solutions. In the real world it is the other way round: Accenture acquired Novetta. We are not correcting the record here, and we are not asserting either version as fact. We are showing you that the record disagrees with the world.
That is the entire problem in one row. An ownership answer is only as good as the provenance attached to it, which is why every answer this engine gives carries the source it came from, and why it abstains instead of guessing. A tool that silently "cleans" this would have hidden the one thing you needed to see.
| Contractor | Parent, as recorded | FY obligations |
|---|---|---|
| ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC UEI C47BNA8GM833 | NOVETTA SOLUTIONS, LLC | $2,518,941,341 |
| GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC. UEI SMNWM6HN79X5 | GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP | $2,057,917,378 |
| BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC UEI JCBMLGPE6Z71 | BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON HOLDING CORPORATION | $1,832,140,517 |
| SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION UEI MMLKPW9JLX64 | SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION | $1,564,416,895 |
| LEIDOS, INC. UEI UE9QJD4KK1L6 | LEIDOS HOLDINGS, INC. | $1,487,810,868 |
| CACI, INC. - FEDERAL UEI N3PBJAVNKF61 | CACI INTERNATIONAL INC | $1,450,349,525 |
| DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP UEI CKV2L9GZKJK3 | DELOITTE LLP | $1,361,570,301 |
| FCN, INC. UEI JEANDJTZ8HJ3 | FCN, INC. | $1,013,304,632 |
| ORACLE HEALTH GOVERNMENT SERVICES, INC. UEI DT2KS3HH5FP5 | ORACLE HEALTH GOVERNMENT SERVICES, INC. | $1,002,783,452 |
| THUNDERCAT TECHNOLOGY, LLC UEI UER4AJLUB8D5 | THUNDERCAT TECHNOLOGY, LLC | $882,367,547 |
| FOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C. UEI H1KHJPJH9R51 | FOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C. | $819,131,716 |
| PERATON INC. UEI ZBPQEJVECCT4 | VERITAS CAPITAL FUND MANAGEMENT, L.L.C. | $771,783,280 |
Built 14 July 2026 from USASpending and the OFAC SDN list, both public domain. Served by a keyless API: /api/v1/attribution/vendors.