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Ultimate Parent UEI Name

Human-readable name of the vendor's ultimate parent organization, as reported in the Other Transaction Award vendor site details. It labels the top-level parent associated with the vendor hierarchy in the FPDS record.

Family: Other Transaction Award
Category: Vendor Site Details
Data Type: string
Semantic Type: label
Mapping: flattened_fpds_xml_field
AI Confidence: high

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__entityIdentifiers__vendorUEIInformation__ultimateParentUEIName
Title
Ultimate Parent UEI Name
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/entityIdentifiers/vendorUEIInformation/ultimateParentUEIName
Description
Human-readable name of the vendor's ultimate parent organization, as reported in the Other Transaction Award vendor site details. It labels the top-level parent associated with the vendor hierarchy in the FPDS record.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify the controlling corporate parent behind an awardee, which is useful for consolidation, affiliation analysis, market concentration review, and linking awards across subsidiaries or related entities.
Example Value
EOSPACE INC.
Observed Non-Null Count
38,874

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__entityIdentifiers__vendorUEIInformation__ultimateParentUEIName
FPDS XML Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/entityIdentifiers/vendorUEIInformation/ultimateParentUEIName
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/entityIdentifiers/vendorUEIInformation/ultimateParentUEIName' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__entityIdentifiers__vendorUEIInformation__ultimateParentUEIName'.

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • Aggregate obligations by ultimate parent organization
  • Identify parent-subsidiary relationships across award records
  • Support vendor consolidation and concentration analysis

Common Mistakes

  • Treating the parent name as a unique key
  • Grouping records without normalizing name variants or using the paired UEI

Query Guidance

Select this field for display, grouping, or validation, but join and deduplicate on the paired UEI or other stable identifier when possible. In SQL, normalize case and trim whitespace if using it for fuzzy matching, and prefer identifier-based joins over name-based joins.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__entityIdentifiers__vendorUEIInformation__ultimateParentUEIName AS ultimate_parent_u_e_i_name
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__entityIdentifiers__vendorUEIInformation__ultimateParentUEIName IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Top values

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