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Receives Grants

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor receives federal grants. It captures a vendor relationship attribute at the vendor site level within an Other Transaction Award record.

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__receivesGrants
Title
Receives Grants
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment/receivesGrants
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor receives federal grants. It captures a vendor relationship attribute at the vendor site level within an Other Transaction Award record.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify vendors that also participate in the federal assistance environment, which can matter for risk review, cross-program exposure, and supplier profiling. It is useful when segmenting vendors that may have mixed revenue streams from procurement and grants.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
38,894

FPDS Compare

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

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 receive federal assistance
  • support compliance or conflict screening workflows
  • analyze vendor population characteristics across award records

Common Mistakes

  • interpreting the flag as a grant award indicator rather than a vendor attribute
  • assuming the code is always stored as 1 without checking the dataset's actual encoding

Query Guidance

Filter on the observed affirmative code for this boolean field, and verify whether the source stores values as 0/1, Y/N, or another coded representation. If a description field is available, use it to confirm meaning; when aggregating, deduplicate at the vendor site or award level as appropriate to avoid double counting.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesGrants AS receives_grants
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesGrants IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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