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USA Spending Contracts and Purchases

Dataset Summary

Agency	General Services Administration
Sub-Agency
Category	Federal Government Finances and Employment
Date Released	2008
Date Updated	2009
Time Period	2009
Frequency	Monthly
Description	Provides US Federal Spending by agency. The Contracts section allows searching for data relating to all Federal contracts. There are three main categories of searches: by contractor, by location, and by contracting agency. The Purchase section allows users to view purchase cards spending of various federal agencies for each fiscal year. The data available on this website are extracted from the report published once every quarter on the GSA SmartPay website. The GSA SmartPay receives this data directly from the banks that issued the purchase cards. (more)

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Tool Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation	Administrative
Keywords	Federal contracts, Contracts, Awards, Grants, Loans, Assistance, Purchase Cards, GSASmartPay, GSA SmartPay, USASpending, USA Spending, Purchase, Travel, Fleet, contractor, contracting agency, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Recovery Act, ARRA, Top 100 contractors, federal assistance, insurance, direct payments, recipient, place of performance, Top 100 Recipients, acquisition, transaction, Original Subsidy Cost, Face Value, Direct Loan, Guaranteed Loan, FPDS, Federal Procurement Data System, FAADS, Federal Assistance Award Data System
Unique ID	32

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	USA Spending http://www.usaspending.gov/learn?tab=Sources%20of%20Data
Agency Program Page	www.usaspending.gov
Agency Data Series Page	http://www.usaspending.gov/data?carryfilters=on

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	Federal Contracts Grants
Granularity	zip code
Geographic Coverage	US.Government wide

Data Description

Collection Mode	Person/computer
Data Collection Instrument	http://www.usaspending.gov/learn?tab=Sources%20of%20Data
Data Dictionary/Variable List

Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation	http://www.usaspending.gov/data?carryfilters=on&tab=API
Additional Metadata

OMB Control No. 3090-0284