Contractor performance · on the record
Almost no agency can answer that. The evidence exists, written by the people who were there, and it sits in a file nobody else can reach. The Civic Performance Exchange is where it goes instead, and joining is how you get answers back about the firms in front of you.
See what joining involvesOr open the working demonstration. About 90 seconds, no account.
Citywide classification and compensation study
Meridian Public Advisors LLC · finalized March 2025
Milestone 3 was accepted June 12; the July date in the draft was the invoice date. Acceptance email attached.
Federal buyers have CPARS. The roughly 90,000 state and local entities that buy professional services have nothing equivalent, so past performance arrives as reference letters the vendor selected, or it gets replaced by a financial proxy.
The proxy is the part that does real damage. A young firm with little debt history scores poorly on a commercial credit model built to rate corporate borrowing, and that score ends up standing in for how the firm actually performs, even where written evaluations say otherwise. The evidence exists. It is simply not written down anywhere a second agency can reach it.
Each of these is a different seat in the same system. The sign-in page lists every identity; these three show the most.
Sign in as Sam Whitfield, evaluator
A record moves from draft through attestation, supervisory review, the contractor’s comment, agency reconsideration, and finalization. Adverse ratings cannot be attested without linked evidence. Once a record is final it cannot be edited; a correction becomes a new version and the old one stays readable.
Sign in as Morgan Hale, source selection
Harbor County and City of Riverbend have signed a sharing agreement, so a record Harbor issued about a firm Riverbend is considering appears in the search, labelled with the agency that issued it. Harbor sees who searched and the purpose they gave.
Sign in as Tomasz Reyes, Bluefield Technology Partners
A contractor sees records about their own work and can answer one while it is still open. Records under internal agency drafting stay closed until they reach the contractor, and nothing about any other firm is reachable.
These are constraints in the code and the database rather than statements of intent. Several are enforced by tests that fail if the behaviour changes.
Look around the working demonstration first if you would rather see it than read about it. Fourteen identities across two agencies and three contractor firms, and you can switch between them at any time.