How we check every claim.
Every rule we cite on this site is traced to the primary source before it publishes. Here is the standard, what we promise, and the proof you can check yourself.
We read the rule first.
This site makes claims about the rules that govern federal contracting: the FAR, the DFARS, SBA regulations in 13 CFR, CMMC and NIST SP 800-171, SAM.gov registration, size standards, and set-aside programs. A claim about a rule is only as good as the source behind it.
So every regulatory claim here is anchored to the primary source: the rule itself. Not a summary of it. Not a consultant retelling it. Not a half-remembered version. When a secondhand account and the rule disagree, the rule wins. We read the rule, and we cite the rule.
Four standards every claim has to meet.
The source is named correctly.
The rule or notice we point to matches its real title and citation. A regulation that does not say what we claim cannot hold up a sentence that does.
The number is traceable.
Every threshold, dollar figure, and deadline points to a specific place in the rule. If we cannot show you where the number lives in the FAR, the DFARS, or an SBA regulation, the number does not run.
The framing matches the rule.
The claim says what the rule actually says, not a simpler or more convenient version of it. Where common practice goes beyond the rule, we label practice as practice, not as the rule.
An unverifiable citation comes out.
A plain claim with no citation beats a claim propped up by a source that does not support it. One bad citation makes a reader doubt every good one next to it, so it does not stay.
Standards are easy to claim. So we show the evidence.
Corrections, in full. When a re-read finds a claim that no longer holds, we fix it and publish the change with the citation that drove it. Every entry shows the old wording next to the new. See the Corrections log.
A verification date on the work. As an article clears a primary-source re-read, it carries the date it was checked. You are not trusting a promise of rigor. You are seeing when the work was last verified.
The questions we have not settled. Where the rule is silent and experienced people disagree, we publish the question, our reading, and the other side, instead of inventing certainty. On the highest-impact ones, we file the question with the agency in writing, the same discipline accounting firms use when they ask a regulator for an answer and publish it. See Open Questions.
Check the work yourself.
Most sites ask you to trust the author. We would rather show you the standard and let you check the work. It is also how a careful reader tells verified analysis apart from confident-sounding filler.
If you find a claim on this site that does not trace to its source, tell us. Email info@amerifusionconsulting.com or use the Ask Us form.