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Is for Profit Organization

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor organization associated with the IDV is classified as a for-profit entity. It captures the organization’s profit structure rather than a contract action attribute. Example values may be stored as 0/1 or equivalent code representations depending on the FPDS extract.

Family: IDV
Category: Vendor Site Details
Data Type: boolean_or_code_flag
Semantic Type: flag
Mapping: flattened_fpds_xml_field
AI Confidence: high

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isForProfitOrganization
Title
Is for Profit Organization
FPDS Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/profitStructure/isForProfitOrganization
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor organization associated with the IDV is classified as a for-profit entity. It captures the organization’s profit structure rather than a contract action attribute. Example values may be stored as 0/1 or equivalent code representations depending on the FPDS extract.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts distinguish commercial firms from nonprofit, governmental, and other entity types when studying vendor mix, socioeconomic patterns, and award distribution. It is useful for filtering market segments, comparing award behavior across organization types, and supporting compliance or policy analyses that depend on vendor classification.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
5,862,557

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isForProfitOrganization
FPDS XML Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/profitStructure/isForProfitOrganization
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/profitStructure/isForProfitOrganization' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isForProfitOrganization'.

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • Filter IDVs to for-profit vendors only
  • Compare award volumes by vendor organization type
  • Support compliance or socioeconomic segmentation

Common Mistakes

  • Treating the flag as a contract-level profitability measure
  • Assuming 0 always means false without checking the extract’s code conventions

Query Guidance

Use the field as a WHERE filter or grouping dimension after confirming the dataset’s code mapping. In SQL, test explicitly for the values that represent for-profit status, and handle nulls separately; for example, compare against the observed true code rather than relying on implicit casting.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isForProfitOrganization AS is_for_profit_organization
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isForProfitOrganization IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isForProfitOrganization AS flag_value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isForProfitOrganization IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY flag_value
ORDER BY record_count DESC

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