Terms of Service, Data Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

1. Non-Affiliation with U.S., Foreign, or International Governments

AwardTape is an independent commercial intelligence publication owned and operated by Datil Technologies Inc. AwardTape is NOT affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, accredited by, or operated on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD / Department of War), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the General Services Administration (GSA), NASA, NATO, the UK Ministry of Defence, the European Union, the Australian Department of Defence, or any federal, state, local, or foreign government agency or contracting office. Official U.S. federal procurement notices and solicitations are published by the U.S. Government at SAM.gov and war.gov/News/Contracts/.

2. Public Government Data Provenance, Latency & Heuristic Enrichments

AwardTape aggregates, parses, normalizes, and enriches public-domain and open-government procurement disclosures, including:

• Daily U.S. Department of Defense contract announcements published at war.gov/News/Contracts/ (generally covering contract actions of $7.5 million or more);
• Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) and USAspending.gov obligation and modification feeds (where DoD transaction reporting is subject to a statutory ~90-day public release lag under DFARS PGI 204.6);
• SAM.gov Contract Opportunities, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) commercial solutions openings, and SBIR/STTR topics; and
• Worldwide public procurement portals and Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) feeds wherever defense tenders and contract awards are publicly disclosed - including Europe (EU TED, UK Find a Tender), Asia-Pacific (Australia AusTender, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore), Latin America, Canada, Middle East, Africa, NATO NSPA, and U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS).

Important Notice Regarding Government Source Errors and Automated Heuristics: Government contracting offices frequently delay, redact, modify, cancel, de-obligate, or misclassify contract actions, Product Service Codes (PSCs), NAICS codes, completion dates, and ceiling amounts. Furthermore, AwardTape generates value-added analytical fields - including entity resolution slugs, corporate parent rollups, trigger_kind, trigger_badge, monetize_action, incumbent_vulnerability, ceiling burn percentages, velocity_multiple, inferred Federal Supply Group (FSG/PSC) classifications, and reference MIL-STD / STANAG engineering standard mappings - using automated algorithmic rules and text-matching heuristics. These analytical fields are decision-support estimates only, NOT official government determinations, contracting officer representations, or verified solicitation specifications.

FOIA Public-Domain Records & Agency Exemption 4 Redactions (5 U.S.C. Section 552 / 17 U.S.C. Section 105): Contract documents, Statements of Work (SOW), Performance Work Statements (PWS), Justification and Approval (J&A) determinations, and award files obtained and published through the AwardTape Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) pipeline are official U.S. Government records in the public domain pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Section 552 and 17 U.S.C. Section 105. All Exemption 4 (5 U.S.C. Section 552(b)(4), trade secrets and confidential commercial or financial information) and national-security redactions are performed directly by the releasing government contracting office prior to public release. AwardTape publishes only agency-cleared public records as released by the government and assumes no liability for agency redaction determinations.

Mandatory Independent Verification: Before submitting any bid, proposal, quote, capability statement, subcontracting inquiry, or FOIA request, or committing capital, inventory, or engineering resources, Customer MUST independently verify the official solicitation number (PIID), statement of work (SOW), drawings, military specifications, qualification requirements, set-aside eligibility, and submission deadline directly within the authoritative government system of record (SAM.gov, PIEE, DIBBS, or the issuing contracting officer).

3. Strict "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" Disclaimer of All Warranties (UCC Section 2-316)

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW (INCLUDING UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE SECTION 2-316 AND DELAWARE LAW), THE SERVICES, ALL CONTRACT TAPES, COMPANY DOSSIERS, RECOMPETE PIPELINES, SUBCONTRACT WINDOWS, DEMAND VELOCITY METRICS, CSV/JSON SPREADSHEETS, FOIA LETTER TEMPLATES, API RESPONSES, AND MCP TOOL OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED STRICTLY "AS IS," "WITH ALL FAULTS," AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION, OR GUARANTEE OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR ARISING BY COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

DATIL TECHNOLOGIES INC. EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, QUIET ENJOYMENT, SYSTEM INTEGRATION, AND DATA ACCURACY. Without limiting the foregoing, Datil Technologies Inc. makes no warranty or representation that:

• Any contract award, ceiling amount, obligation figure, burn rate, expiration date, incumbent contractor identity, solicitation deadline, or point of contact is complete, current, error-free, or unmodified;
• Use of the Services, API credits, or data exports will result in Customer winning any prime contract, task order, subcontract, teaming agreement, OTA, SBIR/STTR award, or revenue of any kind;
• Any reference military standard (MIL-STD, MIL-DTL, MIL-PRF, STANAG) or PSC/NAICS code shown on AwardTape matches the actual technical data package (TDP) or qualification requirements of a solicitation; or
• The Services will be uninterrupted, timely, or free of upstream government portal outages.

4. No Legal, Financial, Investment, Compliance, or Bid-Protest Advice

Datil Technologies Inc. is an independent data publisher. Neither AwardTape nor Datil Technologies Inc. is a law firm, certified public accounting firm, broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, registered lobbyist, or government contracting office. Nothing in the Services constitutes:

• Legal advice regarding the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), GAO or Court of Federal Claims bid protests, Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. Section 552) litigation, small-business size standards, or organizational conflicts of interest (OCI);
• Export-control or cybersecurity compliance advice under ITAR (22 C.F.R. Parts 120-130), EAR (15 C.F.R. Parts 730-774), CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, or FOCI rules; or
• Investment advice, securities research, or a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security of any publicly traded or privately held defense contractor.

FOIA request drafts generated on /foia/ are convenience templates only; Customer is solely responsible for reviewing, signing, submitting, and paying any statutory search/review fees assessed by the receiving government agency.

5. API Keys, Credits, Pay-Per-Call, Billing & Taxes

AwardTape sells access to its data API in prepaid credits. There are no subscriptions, trials or automatic renewals.

How credits work. One credit pays for one API call on any dataset. A CSV export uses 10 credits. Credits do not expire while AwardTape operates the API. Credits are added to the API key you top up, or to a new key issued at checkout. Credits have no cash value, cannot be transferred to another key except by us on request, and are not redeemable for cash except as stated in our Refund Policy or where the law requires. We may change prices for future purchases; a price change never reduces credits you already bought.

Your key. The API key is shown when it is issued. We store only a one-way hash of it, so we cannot show it again. Keep it secret: anyone holding the key can spend its credits. Tell us at [email protected] if a key is exposed.

Payments and taxes. Card payments are processed by Stripe and Link. Stablecoin payments settle on the Base or Solana network through a payment facilitator; network transactions are final once confirmed. Applicable sales tax, VAT or GST is calculated at checkout where the law requires.

Earlier subscriptions. Subscriptions bought before November 1, 2026 continue under the terms in effect when they were bought until they are cancelled, and can be cancelled at any time from your account. For a team or enterprise agreement, email [email protected].

6. License & Acceptable Use

Upon payment (or for free public pages, upon access in compliance with /robots.txt), Datil Technologies Inc. grants Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Services and downloaded CSV/JSON datasets for Customer's internal business development, capture management, subcontracting outreach, market research, and analytical workflows. Customer may import downloaded CSV files into Customer's internal CRM (such as Salesforce, HubSpot, or Pipedrive) or internal analytics tools. Customer may not: (a) resell, redistribute, sublicense, or publicly republish AwardTape datasets or API responses as a competing commercial directory or data feed; (b) share login sessions, API keys, or signed at_pack download tokens outside Customer's organization; or (c) scrape or crawl the Services in violation of /robots.txt or bypass HTTP 402 rate/payment gates.

7. Limitation of Liability & Strict Cap on Damages

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STRICT CUMULATIVE LIABILITY CAP: IN ALL EVENTS, THE TOTAL AGGREGATE CUMULATIVE LIABILITY OF DATIL TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND ITS AFFILIATES FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, STATUTE, OR OTHERWISE) SHALL NOT EXCEED THE LESSER OF: (A) THE EXACT DOLLAR AMOUNT ACTUALLY PAID BY CUSTOMER TO DATIL TECHNOLOGIES INC. FOR THE SPECIFIC SERVICE GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY (FOR EXAMPLE, $5.00 USD FOR A STARTER CREDIT PACK), OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100.00 USD). For free-tier users who have paid no fees, Datil Technologies Inc.'s total aggregate liability shall not exceed $0.00 USD (or $10.00 USD where a nominal minimum is required by law). The existence of multiple claims shall not enlarge this cap.

8. Indemnification

Customer agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Datil Technologies Inc., its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any and all third-party claims, demands, investigations, bid protests, administrative proceedings, liabilities, damages, losses, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising out of or relating to: (a) Customer's bids, proposals, subcontracts, teaming agreements, outreach, or FOIA requests; (b) Customer's violation of these Terms or any applicable federal, state, or foreign procurement, export-control, or competition law; or (c) Customer's unauthorized redistribution of the Services.

9. Governing Law, Binding Individual Arbitration & Class-Action Waiver

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to the Services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, and expressly excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA).

Binding Individual Arbitration: Except for small-claims court actions that qualify and remain in small-claims court or claims seeking injunctive relief to protect intellectual property or prevent unauthorized scraping, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services shall be resolved exclusively by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Commercial Arbitration Rules (or Consumer Arbitration Rules, if applicable), conducted in English via videoconference or in Wilmington, Delaware.

CLASS-ACTION AND JURY-TRIAL WAIVER: YOU AND DATIL TECHNOLOGIES INC. AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. BOTH PARTIES EXPRESSLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY.

10. Severability, Entire Agreement & Contact

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Refund & Cancellation Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Datil Technologies Inc. regarding the Services.

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