DATA PRODUCT / USAspending.gov

U.S. Federal Contract Awards Dataset

Structured federal contract award and transaction data with validation, deduplication and reconciliation controls.

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Technical overview

U.S. Federal Contract Awards data schema & provenance

Representative fields in the public preview are shown below. The current published schema version is 0.1.0; this is a version label, not a run-completeness indicator. Check the live run status and generated timestamp for publication freshness. Delivered schemas are versioned separately.

Field nameTypeDescription
generated_award_idstringStable link to transaction records in the same production run.
award_idstringSource federal award identifier.
recipient_namestringAward recipient.
awarding_agencystringFederal awarding agency.
funding_agencystringFunding agency reported by the source.
current_award_amount_usdnumberCurrent award amount in USD.
award_typestringContract award type.
descriptionstringSource award description.
start_date / end_datedateReported performance period.
naics / pscobjectIndustry and product/service classifications.
data_quality_statusstringValidation/delivery state.

Primary source

USAspending.gov

Delivery model

Structured JSON/CSV packages with schema and delivery metadata.

Quality controls

Validation, provenance, deduplication and dataset-specific reconciliation where applicable.

Public dataset preview

Up to 10 sample records

Loaded from api.dmodifydata.com. The complete JSON/CSV delivery remains private.

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Related dataset: Federal Contract Transactions

Explore action-level contract changes, modifications, obligation amounts and action dates. Awards and transactions share generated_award_id and their production run ID.

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How to cite this dataset

DModify Data Management. “U.S. Federal Contract Awards Dataset.” DModify Data Management, https://dmodifydata.com/products/federal-contracts/. Accessed [date].