supply chain · provenanceThe paper trail behind every part, assembled.
Provenance is evidence assembly and gap detection for contractors and suppliers selling into the federal government — country-of-origin and prohibited-source requirements, read out of the documents that already carry the answer, with a citation on every finding. The compliance call belongs to the contractor and its counsel; Provenance only assembles what they review.
The record the firm already keeps.
Nothing here is new paperwork. Provenance reads the documents a firm and its suppliers already produce, and traces the origin claim buried inside each one back to the part it describes.
Bills of materials
Every part number, sub-assembly, and supplier link a BOM discloses, read down to the part level.
Supplier declarations
The country-of-origin and content declarations a supplier submits with a part or a lot.
Certificates of conformance
The supplier paperwork attesting a part meets its spec and the origin it claims.
Purchase orders
The commercial record of what was ordered, from whom, and on what terms.
Invoices
What was actually billed and shipped, matched back against the order and the declared origin.
Customs entries
Import records carrying their own country-of-origin and tariff data, checked against what the supplier declared.
Contract flowdowns
The origin and sourcing clauses a prime contract pushes down to every subcontractor and supplier in the chain.
What the read becomes.
Five outputs, run in order, every one of them traceable back to the document it came from.
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Extracts and normalizes
Country-of-origin claims, extracted and normalized to the part level, out of whatever format a supplier used to state them.
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Maps the supply chain
Tier-1 through tier-N supplier relationships, mapped directly out of the documents — not out of a self-reported org chart.
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Computes domestic content
Domestic content, computed against the applicable threshold, part by part.
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Screens for prohibited sources
Every part screened against the prohibited-source regimes below, the moment a match appears.
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Flags unsupported claims
Parts asserting domestic origin with no supporting certificate on file, flagged before they reach a filing.
Every finding — a mapped tier, a computed percentage, a flagged gap — cites the source document it came from.
The regimes, named and dated.
Named plainly, with the section and the date, because a vague screen is not a useful one.
Buy American Act — domestic content threshold (FAR 52.225-1)
The percentage-of-domestic-content test that decides whether an end product counts as domestic.
Trade Agreements Act (TAA)
Waives Buy American for products of designated countries, and bars others outright on covered acquisitions.
Section 889
Bars covered telecommunications and video surveillance equipment and services from named manufacturers.
NDAA FY23 Section 5949
Bars covered semiconductors from named manufacturers, effective December 23, 2027.
DFARS specialty metals
Restricts specialty metals in specified DoD end items to melted-and-poured domestic or qualifying-country sources.
Berry Amendment
Requires domestic sourcing for specified textiles, food, and other covered items in DoD purchases.
Just as binding: what it will not do.
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Not a compliance determination.
Provenance surfaces evidence and flags gaps. It does not decide that a part, a supplier, or a filing is compliant with the Buy American Act, the Trade Agreements Act, Section 889, or any other regime it screens against.
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Not a filing, and not a signature.
Provenance does not submit anything to the government, and it does not stand in for the signature a contractor's authorized official puts on a compliance filing. That signature — and the False Claims Act exposure that follows it — belongs to the contractor alone.
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Not a substitute for counsel.
The contractor and its counsel make the compliance call. Provenance assembles what they review — every finding traced to the document it came from — and stops there.
Walk us through your flowdowns.
Tell us about the bills of materials, the supplier declarations, and the flowdowns already sitting in your files, and we'll show you what Provenance would surface from them.