The numbers
| Month | All | Firms | From OFAC |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 136 | 27 | 104 |
| February | 147 | 16 | 112 |
| March | 33 | 25 | 1 |
| April | 32 | 22 | 0 |
| May | 66 | 33 | 0 |
| June | 64 | 55 | 0 |
| July | 71 | 60 | 0 |
| August | 43 | 35 | 0 |
| September | 86 | 68 | 0 |
| Total | 678 | 341 | 217 |
Of the 678, 341 were firms, 298 special entity designations and 39 vessels. Read the notes on how we counted before quoting these.
Who issued them
| Agency | Exclusions | Share |
|---|---|---|
| OFAC (Treasury) | 217 | 32% |
| HHS | 117 | 17% |
| DLA | 63 | 9% |
| Interior (DOI) | 36 | 5% |
| USCIS | 29 | 4% |
| Air Force | 28 | 4% |
| EPA | 27 | 4% |
| Not stated in the record | 28 | 4% |
| Everyone else (20 more agencies) | 133 | 20% |
Twenty-seven agencies appear. Exclusions are government-wide, so the agency you work with isn't the one to watch: a sub on Army work can be excluded by EPA or HHS. A search limited to your own agency's actions, or your own memory of who is in trouble, won't catch that.
What kind they were
| Type | Exclusions | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Prohibition/Restriction | 307 | 45% |
| Ineligible (Proceedings Pending) | 184 | 27% |
| Ineligible (Proceedings Completed) | 152 | 22% |
| Voluntary Exclusion | 35 | 5% |
More than one in four were pending. Those companies are restricted now, on a process that hasn't finished, which is exactly the case people misread as not serious yet. See debarment vs suspension vs proposed debarment.
What this means for screening
- Exclusions arrive in lumps. Firms ranged from 16 in a month to 68, and all entries from 32 to 147. An average tells you little about any given month.
- The pace against firms picked up. The four months from June to September brought 218 firms, against 123 in the five before. Five months isn't a trend we would lean on, and earlier months may be undercounted (see below), but it's no reason to check less often.
- Related companies go together. Groups of firms often take effect the same day: in May, for example, Interior's voluntary exclusions included a cluster of West Virginia firms on one date. If one supplier is hit, look at its affiliates, and at any of your suppliers sharing an owner or address.
- SAM.gov is not your sanctions check. Of OFAC's 217 entries, 216 fall in January and February, and we count none since March. That doesn't show OFAC stopped designating anyone. It shows that this list can't stand in for OFAC's own. Screen the Consolidated Screening List separately.
- Annual checks miss most of it. A company excluded in February would pass unnoticed until your next look. That is the argument for monitoring rather than searching.
How we counted
- From SAM.gov's public exclusions data, data date October 30, 2026, by the date each exclusion took effect. These are the same counts as our monthly exclusions digest, added up.
- Individuals are not in these numbers: we never load exclusions of individuals, so the true totals are higher.
- We began loading the list in October 2026, and earlier months are counted from what was still listed then. Anything that had already come off isn't counted, so January to September are lower bounds, and early months are likely the most affected.
- "Proceedings Complete" and "Proceedings Completed" both occur in the source; we added them together. Shares are rounded.
- An agency's label is the one on the record. Twenty-eight records state no agency.
- Firms are not named here on purpose. The digest lists them for each month; a name alone doesn't make a match, so check the UEI or CAGE.
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