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Organizational Type

Human-readable label for the vendor’s organizational form at the site level, such as corporate, nonprofit, or other entity type. It describes the organization classification associated with the vendor record rather than the contract action itself.

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

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__organizationalType
Title
Organizational Type
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/organizationalType
Description
Human-readable label for the vendor’s organizational form at the site level, such as corporate, nonprofit, or other entity type. It describes the organization classification associated with the vendor record rather than the contract action itself.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts segment awards by vendor structure and assess patterns across legal or tax organization types. It supports market analysis, socioeconomic profiling, and filtering procurement records when comparing vendor populations or reusable reporting cohorts.
Example Value
CORPORATE NOT TAX EXEMPT
Observed Non-Null Count
13,417

FPDS Compare

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

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • grouping awards by vendor organizational form
  • filtering for nonprofit or corporate vendors
  • profiling vendor populations in spend analysis

Common Mistakes

  • assuming the value identifies legal entity status rather than the reported organization type
  • joining on the raw text without normalizing variant labels

Query Guidance

Use this field for GROUP BY, DISTINCT, and WHERE filters after normalizing case and whitespace; if a coded counterpart exists, prefer that code for joins and use this field for display. When multiple spellings occur, map observed values to a controlled category table before aggregation.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__organizationalType AS organizational_type
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__organizationalType IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Top values

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