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Receives Grants

Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor entity associated with the award receives federal grants. It captures a vendor relationship with the federal government, not the award action itself, and may appear as a flag value such as 0/1 or a similar coded representation.

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__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesGrants
Title
Receives Grants
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment/receivesGrants
Description
Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor entity associated with the award receives federal grants. It captures a vendor relationship with the federal government, not the award action itself, and may appear as a flag value such as 0/1 or a similar coded representation.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts assess whether a vendor has mixed federal funding streams, which can matter for compliance review, entity profiling, and segmentation of awardees by their broader relationship to the federal government. It is useful when studying vendor dependence on federal funding, potential organizational overlap between grant and procurement activity, or targeting analyses for vendors that participate in multiple federal programs.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
13,417

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesGrants
FPDS XML Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment/receivesGrants
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment/receivesGrants' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__OtherTransactionIDV__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 grants
  • support compliance or relationship-based vendor profiling
  • compare procurement awardees with hybrid grant-and-contract funding

Common Mistakes

  • treating the flag as describing the award rather than the vendor relationship
  • assuming all zeros mean the vendor has no federal relationship when the field may be missing or inconsistently coded

Query Guidance

Filter on the normalized indicator value after checking the source encoding in your extract. Use explicit null handling and code mapping, for example CASE statements to convert 0/1, Y/N, or other observed codes into a single analytic flag before aggregation or joins.

SQL Examples

Preview values

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

Flag distribution

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