Read commercial prospecting results and the Excel output

Part of these button learning paths: Commercial Prospecting

Application path: Main Menu → Commercial Prospecting.

Use Commercial Prospecting to build a list of businesses in a geographic area, then inspect individual company profiles. Start with the market you serve and the kind of business you want to find.

Read and use the company results

Column Meaning and next action
Details View Details opens the company's Vendor / CAGE Detail View.
Email The listed business contact email.
CAGE The company's five-character identifier.
Company Business name; a website link is shown where supplied.
Phone Listed business telephone number.
City / ST / Zip The business location shown in the record.
Map Map It! is the location link.

Use the numbered pages or next/previous controls to move through the list. The grid also displays column filter icons, sortable headings and Export to Excel.

For example, choose View Details beside ALL PHASE ELECTRIC & MAINTENANCE, INC., CAGE 6HP50. Its profile shows the company in Tampa, Florida, with address and contact fields. The research buttons provide routes to NSN awards, federal awards, MCRL parts, GSA information, SAM details, a business plan and opportunities. The contractor research example follows a company into its federal award history, and the registration-field reference explains SAM detail fields.

Contractors

Column/action Meaning and use
View Details Opens the company profile. Available research links depend on whether the result has a CAGE; see contractor profiles.
Address, City, State, Zip Code Stored business location. A ZIP-radius search uses this geography for companies; the address does not mean the firm works at every institution listed below.
Map It! Passes the row's name, coordinates and address to the site's map page in a new tab. Check the mapped point against the street address before planning a visit.

Optional institution sections

Section Every displayed field/action How to use it
Hospitals The hospital matches use Hospital Name, Address, City, ST, Zip, Phone and Web. Read each institution section separately from contractor matches. Identify a nearby facility and verify its current name, location and purchasing process.
Displayed field/action Meaning and reason to use it
Hospital Name Stored name of a hospital. Confirm the current institution and campus before mapping it to a buyer.
Nursing Home Stored name of a nursing-home facility. The operator or purchasing group may differ from that facility name.

Export the company or hospital list

In the 34677 / radius 25 / NAICS 238210 search with Hospitals selected, each result section has its own Export to Excel button. Use the button above Commercial Contractors for companies, or the button above Hospitals for institutions. The two downloads have different columns.

The observed company download, Export (7).xlsx, has 50 rows and seven columns on Sheet1: Email is the listed contact address; CAGE identifies the company record; Company is its name; Phone is the listed telephone number; and City, ST and Zip are its location fields.

Reviewed Commercial Contractors worksheet with seven headers and first rows

The on-screen company grid reported 849 matches, while this actual download contained 50 rows. Do not treat this workbook as an export of all 849 matches. The observed row count matches the grid's first-page size; behavior for exporting later pages or the entire result set was not established.

The observed hospital download, Export (8).xlsx, has 29 rows and seven columns on Sheet1: Hospital Name names the institution; Address, City, ST and Zip give its listed location; Phone is the recorded number; and Web contains its listed website address. These are hospital records, separate from the contractor rows.

Reviewed Hospitals worksheet with seven headers and all 29 rows

Check current contact and website details before using an exported row for outreach.

Read statewide company and institution matches

The October 23, 2026 Florida / Women-owned Business / janitorial example returns 3,696 companies, with 50 on the first page. The first displayed company is #1 CLEANING LLC, CAGE 8NQP5. Read the company and contact fields together, then use View Details for the selected company profile.

Company matches for the statewide business-type and keyword search

The selected institution lists appear separately. Each grid has its own records and headings.

List Displayed columns and their meaning
Nursing Homes Nursing Home names the facility; Address, City, ST and Zip locate it; Tel is its listed telephone number. The example has 543 nursing-home rows.
Universities ST is the state; Title is the institution name; URL is its listed website; Zip is the location ZIP. The example has 53 rows.
State Prisons ST is the state; Title names the institution; URL is its listed website; Zip is the location ZIP. The example has 75 rows.

Sort the nursing-home name column ascending to begin with Abbey Delray in the illustrated list. Use the address and telephone fields when researching the facility.

Nursing-home results with names, addresses and telephone numbers

Sort Title ascending in the university grid to begin with Barry University in this example. The URL belongs to the institution on that row.

University results sorted by institution title

The prison list starts with Apalachee-E in the illustrated result. Read its state, title, URL and ZIP as one institution record.

State-prison results and their website/location fields

Use these additional lists to research organizations in the same state while retaining the company search as a separate result. Return to the Commercial Prospecting form to change the market or institution selections. For the company and hospital workbook fields, see the export explanation above.