Past-performance vault
Keep your performance evidence private, share it with one partner at a time, and take it back when the pursuit ends.
A prime asks for proof you have done this work before. You do not want to email a PDF that gets forwarded around forever, and you do not want it published anywhere.
The vault is where you store that evidence and control exactly who sees it. It comes with verification on every plan — it exists to make teaming conversations evidence-based, not to sell you storage.
What you can put in it
The vault accepts PDF files in four categories:
| Category | What it means |
|---|---|
| Past-performance write-ups | Your own description of a contract — the scope, your role, how it went |
| CPARS-derived summaries | Summaries based on your CPARS record. CPARS is the government's Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System, where agencies grade contractor performance. For direct controlled sharing only, you can also include the source files |
| Capability statements | The standard one-page overview you already send to primes |
| Other | Anything else you are authorized to store and share |
Do not upload sensitive government information
No CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information), no classified material, no export-controlled information, and no raw proposal content. Do not upload any record you are not authorized to store and share. You are responsible for having the right to share what you upload.
Who can see a document
Every document is private by default. Only authorized members of your own company can see it. Nothing in the vault is published, indexed, or offered to the paid-member network.
To share, you give one named company access to one document. Two things have to be true first:
Your company is Verified. Unverified companies cannot upload or share. See claiming your company.
You already have an accepted teaming relationship with the company you are sharing with. FedScope refuses the share otherwise. Sharing follows a teaming agreement — it does not create one.
Access starts right away and runs until you revoke it. Each view goes through a short-lived link rather than a permanent web address, and every access is logged — so you can see who opened what, and when.
The default for every document. Nothing is shared until you grant it.
You pick the document and the recipient. Access is served through short-lived links, every view is logged, and you can revoke at any time.
How recipients should read it
Vault documents come from you, the contractor. FedScope labels them as authorized contractor evidence and never presents them as an official government record or an independently checked fact. If you are on the receiving end, weigh them accordingly and confirm anything material against the official record or the reference contact.
For example: after agreeing to team with a prime, a subcontractor gives that prime access to one CPARS-derived summary. The prime reads it. Once the bid goes in, the sub revokes access. Nothing was ever public, and the whole access trail is logged.
Things to keep in mind
- The vault is not a government system, and a summary is not the official CPARS record.
- Shares do not expire on their own. Access continues until you revoke it, so review your active shares when a pursuit ends.
- Revoking stops future access only. It cannot un-read what someone already opened.
- FedScope does not check uploads for accuracy. Misrepresenting your performance evidence violates the terms of use.