---
title: "Federal counterparty due-diligence dossier on one name, in..."
method: GET
path: "/api/gov/counterparty"
tags: ["gov"]
---

# Federal counterparty due-diligence dossier on one name, in...

`GET /api/gov/counterparty`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://2s.io`
- URL: `https://2s.io/api/gov/counterparty`
- Auth: API key in header `PAYMENT-SIGNATURE`

Federal counterparty due-diligence dossier on one name, in a single call. Give name (a company or person) and optional state; get back six independent federal/authoritative screens composed into one verdict: SAM.gov registration (UEI/CAGE, active status), SAM federal exclusions (debarment/suspension), OFAC SDN sanctions, GLEIF Legal Entity Identifier, USAspending federal contract-award history, and FARA foreign-agent registration. Returns headline riskFlags (e.g. federally_debarred, sanctions_high_confidence_match, registered_foreign_agent), a cleared boolean (true only when both debarment AND sanctions sources answered and were clean — FARA status is disclosure context and does NOT affect cleared), a summary of booleans, and a per-source found/error/data block so one slow or empty source never fails the whole call. Composition of /api/gov/entity + /api/gov/exclusions + /api/law/sanctions-check + /api/business/lei + /api/gov/usaspending-awards + /api/gov/foreign-agents — all free, public-domain US data. Name matching is probabilistic: review flagged matches manually and confirm with a hard identifier (UEI, LEI) before acting. For vendor onboarding, KYC/AML triage, grant eligibility, and procurement integrity. The federal counterpart to /api/business/entity-screen (which covers state registries).

## Query parameters

- `name` string, required
- `state` string
- `threshold` number
- `limit` integer
- `trial` 1

## Other responses

- `200` (unresolved $ref)
- `400`: Invalid request — not charged. error.code: BAD_REQUEST or INVALID_PARAM (parameter validation; error.details.issues lists each problem), MALFORMED_JSON, or a request-specific code. Other client errors: 405 METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED (wrong verb; see the Allow header), 413 PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE.
- `402`: Payment required. Body is the x402 PaymentRequirements envelope with a multi-network accepts array; the per-call price is in accepts[].amount (and on the operation as x-2s-price). Sign for whichever rail you hold USDC on (EIP-3009 for Base, partial SPL transfer for Solana) and retry with the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header (X-PAYMENT also accepted for v1 clients). Also PAYMENT_SETTLE_FAILED (error envelope) when a verified payment failed to settle: error.details.chargeStatus is "not_charged" (retry with a fresh payment) or "unknown" (the authorization may still settle before its deadline — check it before retrying).
- `429`: Too many requests — RATE_LIMITED: our per-IP / per-payer limiter. Not charged; retry after Retry-After.
- `5XX`: Server-side failure. 500 INTERNAL: unexpected error; quote error.errorId (also the X-2s-Error-Id header). 502 UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE (or another UPSTREAM_* code): the data provider failed — composite endpoints refuse unbilled when every source fails. 503 SERVICE_PAUSED: endpoint paused by the operator kill switch, retry after Retry-After; 503 SPEND_CAP: daily upstream budget exhausted. 504 UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT. Not charged.

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