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Is Foreign Owned and Located

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is foreign-owned and located. It captures the record-level vendor organization factor for ownership and location status in the contract detail.

Family: Other Transaction IDV
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__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__isForeignOwnedAndLocated
Title
Is Foreign Owned and Located
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/isForeignOwnedAndLocated
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is foreign-owned and located. It captures the record-level vendor organization factor for ownership and location status in the contract detail.
Business Meaning
This field supports analysis of foreign participation in federal procurement, including supplier risk screening, sourcing policy reviews, and compliance-oriented segmentation. It is useful for identifying awards associated with foreign-owned, foreign-located firms versus domestic vendors.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
13,417

FPDS Compare

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

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • Filter awards involving foreign-owned and located vendors
  • Segment vendor base by ownership/location status
  • Support compliance or supply-chain risk analysis

Common Mistakes

  • Interpreting the flag as nationality of the parent company rather than the vendor organization status in the record
  • Assuming all non-1 values mean false without verifying null and code handling

Query Guidance

Use this field in WHERE clauses or CASE expressions after confirming the coded values in your extract; for example, filter for the affirmative value only, and explicitly handle nulls separately. When aggregating, group by the normalized flag rather than raw text if the source uses mixed encodings.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__isForeignOwnedAndLocated AS is_foreign_owned_and_located
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__isForeignOwnedAndLocated IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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