2.3.2.1: Contracting Data
Report awarded contract actions to the Federal Procurement Data System for inclusion in the publicly-available USASpending.gov
site.
Other Information:
To comply with requirements for contract data reporting, the Department joined other Federal Agencies in leveraging an existing
government-wide contract reporting system, the Federal Procurement Data System, using its framework to provide USASpending.gov
data already being reported. This allowed the contracting community to be able to comply quickly with Act timeframes. Awarded
contract actions are reported daily to the Federal Procurement Data System and then added to the publicly-available USASpending.gov
after a 90-day delay to ensure security of current and imminent military operations. With a single exception, all required
USASpending.gov data fields are reported via this mechanism. The “program source,” which the Office of Management and Budget
defines as the Treasury Account Symbol, is not reported with the exception of Recovery Act related actions, which use internal
architecture designed to meet the Recovery Act’s specific requirements. In the future, the Department will expand use of that
Recovery Act-focused architecture to satisfy remaining gaps in reporting of the “program source” for all contracts.
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