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Terms of service

Version of September 11, 2026.

1. Who provides this service

Findingbase is operated by Styvan Hauterville, trading as SHAU, a French entreprise individuelle (sole trader) registered under SIREN 107 173 320, RCS Fort-de-France, France, whose registered office is at 1 rue de la Tannerie, 97200 Fort-de-France, France.

Mail can be sent to: Findingbase — SHAU (Styvan Hauterville), 1 rue de la Tannerie, 97200 Fort-de-France, France.

“We” and “us” mean that trader. “You” means the person or organization using the service. By creating an account you accept these terms.

2. What the service is

Findingbase collects published records of US federal contract awards, works out which of them have a period of performance ending soon, scores each one against a fixed set of rules, and sends you the ones that match the NAICS codes, states and minimum amount you chose. It also publishes summary pages by industry code that anyone can read without an account.

It is an information service. It is not a bidding platform, it does not submit anything on your behalf, and it is not legal, accounting, capture or procurement advice.

3. Accounts

  • Sign-in is by a single-use link sent to your email address. There is no password, so the security of your account is the security of your mailbox: keep control of it, and tell us at once if you lose that control.
  • One account belongs to one organization. You may let colleagues use it; you stay responsible for what they do with it.
  • You must give an email address you actually monitor. Alerts are the product; an address that bounces is an account that does nothing.

4. Subscriptions, billing and cancellation

  • Plans and prices are shown on the pricing page of this site and are charged monthly in advance through Stripe, our payment processor. We never see or store your card details.
  • Prices may change. We will email the address on the account at least 30 days before a new price applies to your subscription. If you do not want to pay it, cancel before that date and the change never reaches you.
  • Taxes: prices are shown in US dollars and are the amounts charged. No VAT is charged. TVA non applicable, article 293 B du CGI. We do not collect US state or local sales tax; where the law of your state makes a tax due on your purchase, you are responsible for accounting for it.
  • Refunds: a month that has started is not refunded, in whole or in part, because the alerts for that month have already run or are scheduled to run. The exception is a charge made in error on our side, which we refund in full; write to us with the Stripe receipt.
  • You can cancel at any time from the billing portal. The subscription then runs to the end of the period you have already paid for, and is not renewed.
  • If a payment fails, we keep the service running while the card issuer retries. If it keeps failing, the subscription ends and alerts stop.

5. Acceptable use

The contract records themselves are US government works; we claim no ownership of the facts in them, and you may do as you like with what you read here. What you may not do is take the service down or hollow it out:

  • no automated bulk extraction of the site beyond ordinary reading and the exports your plan includes;
  • no reselling access, or sharing one subscription across separate organizations;
  • no attempt to reach another customer’s data, or to test our defenses without written permission.

If you want the underlying data in bulk, take it from the source: USAspending publishes bulk downloads, free, without asking us.

6. Accuracy, and what we do not promise

Everything here is derived from federal systems we do not control. Those systems are late, incomplete and sometimes wrong, and our copy of them inherits every one of those faults. End dates get modified; options get exercised without the record changing that day; awards get canceled.

The renewal score is a set of five arithmetic rules applied to fields in the record. It is a way of ranking your reading, not a prediction. A high score does not mean a recompete will happen, and a low or absent score does not mean it will not. Where a contract has not been scored yet we say so, rather than showing you a zero.

The service is provided as it is and as available. To the fullest extent the applicable law allows, we disclaim every warranty not stated in these terms, express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, of accuracy or completeness of the data, and of uninterrupted or error-free operation. Nothing in this section limits a warranty that the law of your country of residence does not allow to be excluded.

7. No government affiliation

Findingbase is an independent commercial service. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or an official source for the United States government or any of its agencies, and nothing here is an official notice of a procurement.

8. Availability

We aim to keep the service running and the weekly import on schedule, but we do not offer a service level agreement, and no uptime commitment or credit is part of any plan. Planned maintenance is done outside US business hours where we can, and an outage that stops a digest going out delays it to the next run rather than skipping it.

9. Liability

To the fullest extent the applicable law allows, our total liability to you for everything arising out of or connected with the service, in contract, tort or otherwise, is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, and in particular not for lost profits, lost revenue, a bid not submitted, a contract not won, or a decision you took on the strength of a score or an alert.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or deliberate misconduct, for gross negligence, or for anything else that the applicable law does not allow to be excluded or limited.

10. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or close an account that is not paid for, or that is being used in breach of section 5. You may close yours at any time from your profile page; doing so deletes your organization and everything attached to it, as described in the privacy policy.

11. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. Material changes will be sent to the email address on the account at least 30 days before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept them; if you do not, cancel before the date and the old terms apply until the end of the period you paid for.

12. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by French law. Any dispute that we cannot settle amicably within 60 days of one party writing to the other about it goes to the courts of Fort-de-France, Martinique, France, which have exclusive jurisdiction. There is no arbitration clause and no class-action waiver in these terms.

If you are a consumer, this clause does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules, or the courts, of the country where you live. The service is offered to businesses that hold or bid on federal contracts, and that is who these terms are written for.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms go to contact@findingbase.com, or by post to the address in section 1.