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Description of Contract Requirement

Human-readable text describing the requirement or need associated with an Other Transaction Award contract record. It captures what the government is asking the recipient to provide, build, demonstrate, or study, and is not a coded value.

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

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__contractData__descriptionOfContractRequirement
Title
Description of Contract Requirement
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/contractData/descriptionOfContractRequirement
Description
Human-readable text describing the requirement or need associated with an Other Transaction Award contract record. It captures what the government is asking the recipient to provide, build, demonstrate, or study, and is not a coded value.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts understand the substantive purpose of an award, especially when the instrument or project description is too broad to classify accurately from codes alone. It supports requirement-level categorization, technology/topic clustering, and review of awards with similar mission needs across programs or agencies.
Example Value
DEMONSTRATE A PROTOTYPE PROJECT FOR WEARABLE SENSORS FOR MULTI-DOMAIN PLATOON OPERATIONS (MDO).
Observed Non-Null Count
38,891

FPDS Compare

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

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • classify awards by mission or requirement topic
  • support keyword search and text clustering
  • review narrative scope when code fields are too general

Common Mistakes

  • treating the text as a standardized code or controlled vocabulary
  • joining or filtering on exact phrasing without accounting for variation

Query Guidance

Use LIKE, ILIKE, full-text search, or text normalization functions to search the narrative. Avoid relying on exact equality except for controlled validation cases, and combine with award type, agency, and other classification fields for more reliable analysis.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__contractData__descriptionOfContractRequirement AS description_of_contract_requirement
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__contractData__descriptionOfContractRequirement IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Top values

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