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Receives Contracts

Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor is a federal contractor, as recorded in the vendor relationship section of an Other Transaction Award record. It identifies the presence of an existing contract relationship with the federal government rather than describing the award itself.

Family: Other Transaction Award
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__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesContracts
Title
Receives Contracts
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment/receivesContracts
Description
Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor is a federal contractor, as recorded in the vendor relationship section of an Other Transaction Award record. It identifies the presence of an existing contract relationship with the federal government rather than describing the award itself.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts distinguish vendors that already receive federal contracts from those that do not, which is useful for market concentration analysis, vendor profiling, and assessing relationships between OT awardees and the broader federal contracting base. It can also support compliance and segmentation reviews when comparing award activity across vendor populations.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
38,894

FPDS Compare

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

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • Segment vendors that already have federal contract relationships
  • Filter OT awards by vendor contracting status
  • Support vendor population or compliance analysis

Common Mistakes

  • Treating the flag as the award's contract status rather than the vendor's relationship status
  • Assuming 0 always means false without checking the encoded values in the source extract

Query Guidance

Use this field as a filter or grouping flag, for example WHERE receivesContracts = 1 or equivalent coded true value after confirming the dataset's encoding. If the field is stored as text or mixed codes, normalize values first and inspect distinct values to verify how true/false are represented.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesContracts AS receives_contracts
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesContracts IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesContracts AS flag_value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesContracts 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.