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GS Consulting Federal Technology Evidence Series

Federal AI Procurement Safeguards Explorer

We analyzed 1,532 public notices; 1,076 contained scoreable public text. Filter the frame by agency, period, notice type, and safeguard rule match. The headline index uses a separate sampled semantic review.

How to read this explorer: This is a rule-match diagnostic. A zero means no deterministic category match was found in the retrieved public text. It does not mean the named agency or solicitation had no safeguards. Some notices lacked scoreable public text. The semantic review used documented samples, and a separate review team did not independently replicate the research.
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What do the ten safeguards mean?Open this plain-language guide. You can also hover over or focus any category beside the chart.
High impact disclosure

Says whether the AI could significantly affect a person's rights, safety, benefits, employment, or access to services.

Test and evaluation

Explains how the buyer will test the AI before accepting it, including difficult cases and failures.

Performance metrics

Names the measurements used to decide whether the AI is working well enough.

Ongoing monitoring

Requires checks after launch for errors, drift, incidents, reliability, or other important changes.

Data and IP rights

Explains who may use or own the data, models, outputs, configurations, and related work.

Portability and exit

Explains how the government can retrieve its data, move to another provider, and avoid being trapped.

Interoperability

Requires the solution to exchange data and work with specified government systems, formats, or interfaces.

Pricing transparency

Shows what drives cost, how usage is priced, and when charges may change.

Feature change notification

Requires the vendor to tell the buyer when a model, feature, data source, or service changes in an important way.

Sunset and closeout

Explains what happens to data, access, records, and services when the work ends.

Safeguard rule matches in filtered public text

Notices

PostedAgencyNoticeTypeRule-match diagnosticMatched categories

The table displays at most 250 matching rows. Each rule-match diagnostic is the number of deterministic category matches multiplied by ten. * A zero means no rule match was found in retrieved public text; it does not mean the named agency or solicitation had no safeguards. This diagnostic is not the weighted headline index.