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Registration Date

The vendor site registration date recorded in the CCR/registration details for the awardee or vendor location. It indicates when that site’s registration was established in the system and is stored as a string timestamp.

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__ccrRegistrationDetails__registrationDate
Title
Registration Date
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/ccrRegistrationDetails/registrationDate
Description
The vendor site registration date recorded in the CCR/registration details for the awardee or vendor location. It indicates when that site’s registration was established in the system and is stored as a string timestamp.
Business Meaning
This date helps analysts assess vendor eligibility timing, registration recency, and whether a vendor site was registered at the time of award or transaction. It is useful for compliance checks, vendor profiling, and studying relationships between registration status and procurement outcomes.
Example Value
2003-05-27 00:00:00
Observed Non-Null Count
13,417

FPDS Compare

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

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • Verify whether a vendor site was registered before a transaction date
  • Measure registration recency for vendor analytics
  • Group or filter awards by vendor registration period

Common Mistakes

  • Using the raw string without converting it to a date type
  • Assuming it is the vendor’s overall entity registration date rather than the site-level registration date

Query Guidance

Parse the value to a timestamp/date in SQL, then compare it to award or action dates for eligibility and timing analysis. Use it in WHERE clauses, date buckets, or joins only after normalizing the format and handling nulls or malformed values.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__ccrRegistrationDetails__registrationDate AS registration_date
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__ccrRegistrationDetails__registrationDate IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Top values

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