Washington, D.C. —The Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) announced this week that the OpenCorporates U.S. legal entity dataset is now available through the Do Not Pay program.
Integrating OpenCorporates into Do Not Pay provides a cost effective, comprehensive data source, enabling agencies to detect if a business is no longer operating or was falsely created for the purpose of receiving federal funds. Access to the OpenCorporates dataset in Do Not Pay will verify whether a business has an active registration on the date of application for federal funding or on a program-specific eligibility cut-off date.
The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) requires federal agencies to review appropriate databases to verify eligibility of the payment or award to prevent improper payments. BFS operates Do Not Pay, a centralized shared service that enables federal agencies and federally funded state-administered programs to screen potential payees and awardees against many authoritative databases before making awards or payments.
Do Not Pay has been helping agencies to address fraud and improper payments with data-driven strategies for more than a decade. In Fiscal Year 2025 alone, Treasury and Do Not Pay helped agencies detect, prevent, and recover $11.7 billion in potential fraud and improper payments.
For more information about Do Not Pay’s authoritative data sources, visit us online or contact us at Media.Relations@fiscal.treasury.gov.