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Country of Incorporation

Country where the vendor organization is legally incorporated. In FPDS Other Transaction Award records, this is a vendor site attribute that identifies the jurisdiction of incorporation rather than the physical location of performance.

Family: Other Transaction 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__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__countryOfIncorporation
Title
Country of Incorporation
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/countryOfIncorporation
Description
Country where the vendor organization is legally incorporated. In FPDS Other Transaction Award records, this is a vendor site attribute that identifies the jurisdiction of incorporation rather than the physical location of performance.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts distinguish U.S.-incorporated vendors from foreign-incorporated entities, which is important for supply chain risk review, industrial base analysis, foreign sourcing assessments, and reporting on international participation in federal awards.
Example Value
USA
Observed Non-Null Count
26,057

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__countryOfIncorporation
FPDS XML Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/countryOfIncorporation
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/countryOfIncorporation' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__countryOfIncorporation'.

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • Identify awards to foreign-incorporated vendors
  • Group vendor population by incorporation jurisdiction
  • Support compliance, risk, and market structure analyses

Common Mistakes

  • Using it as a proxy for vendor headquarters or performance location
  • Failing to normalize abbreviated or variant country values

Query Guidance

Filter or group on the normalized incorporation country value, typically with UPPER(TRIM(countryOfIncorporation)). Use CASE logic or a country reference table to standardize variants like USA, US, and United States before aggregation, and avoid joining on this field unless it has been cleaned to a common code set.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__countryOfIncorporation AS country_of_incorporation
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__countryOfIncorporation IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Top values

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