For any organization whose products end up in federally funded infrastructure projects, October 1, 2026 marks a hard shift in regulatory exposure. On that date, the Federal Highway Administration's manufactured products waiver enters its second phase: covered products must be assembled in the United States and satisfy the greater-than-55-percent domestic component cost test. A missed calculation or an unverifiable supplier attestation can stall a bid, trigger a compliance finding, or put federal funding eligibility at risk. Meeting the BABA 55% rule turns compliance into a documentation problem. It means tracing component origin and cost down to the bill of materials, collecting domestic content data from suppliers across multiple tiers, and keeping that evidence audit ready long after a project is obligated. Manual spreadsheets and one-off supplier emails rarely survive a federal review. An AI-native system of record changes the economics here. Certivo centralizes supplier data coll
