Partnerships

The Partnerships page is a searchable directory of government contractors, built on the SBA’s Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS) dataset. Use it to find teaming partners, subcontractors, or complementary businesses to pursue opportunities together. The page headline is “Find Businesses That Want To Work With You” — companies are surfaced based on their capabilities, certifications, and contract history.

Partnerships search page with company results and filter sidebar

Partnerships requires SLED access, which comes with the Pro and Enterprise plans. Without it, this page isn’t available.

Finding partners

Two independent search boxes feed the same result list:

Keywords (top of the results panel) — searches capability/industry text.
Search by Company Name (in the filter sidebar) — matches on company name, UEI, or CAGE code.

Both are manual — type your term and press Enter or click Search. Every other filter below (certifications, NAICS, GSA Schedule, Mentor-Protégé, city, state, profile-completeness range, credit-card acceptance, has-experience) applies automatically as you change it.

Search Tips, shown when a search returns nothing: use either company-name search or NAICS/keyword filtering, not both at once; try broader terms or remove some filters; make sure NAICS codes are the full 6 digits (shorter codes are rejected before the search even runs); double-check the spelling of company names.

Filters

Section	Filter	What it does
Profile Completeness	Profile completeness score	0–100 dual-handle slider. It measures how complete a company’s profile is — the certifications, profile details, and past performance listed on it. It is not a measure of company size or federal award history, and not a fit score against any specific opportunity.
Profile Completeness	Has Experience?	Yes/No — companies with documented government contract history
Business Profile	Business Certifications	WOSB, EDWOSB, 8(a), SDVOSB, VOSB, HUBZone
Business Profile	NAICS	Multi-select by 6-digit industry code
Business Profile	Accepts Government Credit Card	Checkbox
Programs & Vehicles	GSA Schedule Holder	Checkbox — companies that hold a GSA Schedule
Programs & Vehicles	SBA Mentor-Protégé Program	Checkbox — companies in the SBA Mentor-Protégé Program, as either mentor or protégé
Location	City / State	Free-text city, state dropdown

Matching any or all

Once you pick two or more Business Certifications or two or more NAICS codes, an Any | All switch appears next to that filter’s label:

Any (the default) — companies matching at least one of your selections
All — only companies matching every selection

Each filter has its own switch, so you can, for example, require all of your certifications while matching any of your NAICS codes.

Coming back to your results

Your filters, page number, and scroll position are kept for the current browser tab. Open a company’s profile and click Back, or leave Partnerships from the sidebar and return, and you land where you left off. Use the reset control in the filter panel to clear everything and start fresh. Default results are 40 companies per page.

Reading a company card

Field	Meaning
Company Name	Links to the full profile
Profile completeness	The 0–100 profile-completeness score described above; hover it for a description
Location	City, state
Established	Year founded, plus relative age
Entity Structure	Decoded legal structure (LLC, Sole Proprietorship, Corporate Entity, etc.)
Status	Decoded from SAM.gov’s registration status: Active, Expired, or Other
UEI	Unique Entity Identifier
Primary NAICS	Primary industry code and description
Certifications	Badges for whichever of WOSB / 8(a) / SDVOSB / VOSB / HUBZone / EDWOSB apply
GSA Schedule Holder	Shown for GSA Schedule holders, followed by a badge for each of the company’s GSA contract vehicles
Ownership & Self-Certifications	A separate, deduplicated grid of the company’s self-certified ownership/socioeconomic designations
Email / Phone / Website	Direct contact details
View Details	Opens the full company profile

Contact details are never gated. Email, phone, and website show as plain, clickable text on every card and on the full profile — there’s no “reveal contact,” credit-based unlocking, or upgrade prompt on this data.

Status: Expired means the company’s SAM.gov registration has lapsed — a company can’t be awarded a federal contract in that state, so prioritize Active partners for active bidding.

Exporting results

Export Results Page downloads the current page as a CSV (partnerships-page-{n}-{date}.csv). Like Awards, the profile-completeness score is exported as a Profile Completeness Score column, and this exports only the page you’re viewing — with the default 40-per-page size, that’s a maximum of 40 companies per export, and there’s no bulk “export all matching results” option. To build a larger list, page through your results and export each page, then combine the files yourself.

Company profile detail page

Click View Details to open the company’s detail page.

Company Overview

Address, Phone, Email (copy icon), Website (external link), SBA Profile link, UEI (copy icon), CAGE Code (copy icon), Year Established, Business Type (SAM.gov’s raw entity-type code string), and Status. The header also shows the company’s Profile completeness score, plus badges for GSA (a GSA Schedule holder) and Mentor or Protégé (the company’s role in the SBA Mentor-Protégé Program), where they apply.

GSA Schedule and Mentor-Protégé sections

Two more sections appear only for companies they apply to:

GSA Schedule — the company’s GSA contract vehicles, contract numbers, and categories.
SBA Mentor-Protégé Program — the company’s Mentors and/or Protégés, each with name and UEI. Click one to open that company’s own profile page — useful for finding a mentor’s other protégés, or a well-connected mentor to approach.

Profile tabs

Tabs appear in a fixed order but are hidden entirely (not shown empty) when a company has nothing to put in them — so which tabs you see varies by company, but their order never shifts.

Tab	Contents
Capabilities	Capabilities narrative, keywords/services, special equipment & materials, bonding levels, QA standards, export info
Certifications	Current and former certifications, joint-venture certifications, certification history, contract vehicles
NAICS	Every NAICS code on file for the company (not just the primary one)
Performance	Prior contract performance records
Awards & Subawards	Prime awards and subawards (paginated), plus four spending sub-tables scoped to this recipient: Top Agencies, Top Sub-agencies, Top NAICS, and Top PSC

Partnerships on contract pages

Tip: On any Federal contract page, scroll to the Partnerships tab. SamSearch suggests companies whose NAICS codes and certifications align with that specific opportunity — filtered to your bid strategy needs.

This is a separate entry point to the same DSBS-backed partner data — useful when you already have a contract in hand and need teammates fast. If an exact match on NAICS, location, and set-aside-derived certifications turns up nothing, SamSearch automatically broadens the search step by step — first dropping the certification filters, then location — and tells you what it relaxed so you know the results are less targeted.

Tips

Use the Profile completeness score slider to focus on more complete, better-documented profiles — remember it measures profile completeness, not company size or fit to a specific opportunity.
Filter by NAICS (full 6 digits) to match your exact industry. With several codes selected, leave the switch on Any to cast a wide net, or switch to All for companies registered under every one.
Need a partner who can sell through a GSA Schedule, or want to find mentors and protégés? Use the Programs & Vehicles filters.
Copy UEI and CAGE from the profile page for teaming paperwork.
Check the Awards & Subawards tab before outreach to verify relevant contract history.
Use the Partnerships tab on Federal contract pages for opportunity-specific suggestions.

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