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Closed Date

Datetime indicating when the other transaction award transaction record was officially closed in FPDS. It marks the administrative closeout point for the record, not necessarily the end of all underlying work or financial activity.

Family: Other Transaction Award
Category: General
Data Type: string
Semantic Type: attribute
Mapping: flattened_fpds_xml_field
AI Confidence: high

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__transactionInformation__closedDate
Title
Closed Date
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/transactionInformation/closedDate
Description
Datetime indicating when the other transaction award transaction record was officially closed in FPDS. It marks the administrative closeout point for the record, not necessarily the end of all underlying work or financial activity.
Business Meaning
This field is useful for identifying when a transaction stopped being active in the system, which supports lifecycle analysis, closeout timing, and reporting on award completion status. Analysts use it to distinguish open versus closed records and to measure processing or closeout patterns across agencies, award types, and time periods.
Example Value
2023-02-02 11:45:42
Observed Non-Null Count
7,297

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__transactionInformation__closedDate
FPDS XML Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/transactionInformation/closedDate
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/transactionInformation/closedDate' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__transactionInformation__closedDate'.

Use Cases

  • Dictionary lookup and field explanation
  • SQL filtering and grouping
  • Analytical reporting and reusable query building

Common Usage

  • Filter to closed records for lifecycle reporting
  • Group awards by closure month or quarter
  • Measure time from award action to record closeout

Common Mistakes

  • Using it as a proxy for performance end date
  • Comparing it as a plain string instead of a parsed datetime

Query Guidance

Parse the value to a datetime and use date functions for filtering, truncation, and interval calculations. In SQL, compare against timestamp or date literals after normalizing time zones and format, and treat nulls as still-open or unclosed records depending on the analysis definition.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__transactionInformation__closedDate AS closed_date
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__transactionInformation__closedDate IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Top values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__transactionInformation__closedDate AS value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__transactionInformation__closedDate 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.