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Street Address3

Third line of the vendor's street address recorded in the award's vendor site details. It is a free-text address component used when the full street address extends beyond the first two address lines.

Family: Award
Category: Vendor Site Details
Data Type: string
Semantic Type: attribute
Mapping: flattened_fpds_xml_field
AI Confidence: high

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__streetAddress3
Title
Street Address3
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorLocation/streetAddress3
Description
Third line of the vendor's street address recorded in the award's vendor site details. It is a free-text address component used when the full street address extends beyond the first two address lines.
Business Meaning
This field helps identify and differentiate vendor locations when matching suppliers, validating address completeness, or linking award records to external geocoding and entity-resolution datasets. It supports analysis of vendor geography, site normalization, and address-level deduplication across procurement records.
Example Value
2300 M STREET NW
Observed Non-Null Count
3,451

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__streetAddress3
FPDS XML Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorLocation/streetAddress3
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorLocation/streetAddress3' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__streetAddress3'.

Use Cases

  • Dictionary lookup and field explanation
  • SQL filtering and grouping
  • Analytical reporting and reusable query building
  • Contractor profiling and competitor analysis

Common Usage

  • Address standardization and geocoding prep
  • Vendor entity matching and deduplication
  • Reviewing completeness of vendor location data

Common Mistakes

  • Using it as a unique identifier for a vendor location
  • Filtering on this field alone without the rest of the address

Query Guidance

Use in SELECT for address reconstruction and in WHERE only for exact text searches or data quality checks. For location analysis, concatenate with other vendorLocation address fields and normalize case, whitespace, and punctuation before comparison.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__streetAddress3 AS street_address3
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__streetAddress3 IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Top values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__streetAddress3 AS value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__streetAddress3 IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY value
ORDER BY record_count DESC
LIMIT 25

Each dictionary item includes SQL-ready examples generated alongside the variable metadata, allowing immediate use in FPDS Query for filtering, aggregation, and analysis.