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Now tracking sub-award data

The OMB Guidance for sub-award data outlines the requirements for Federal Agencies and prime contractors and prime grant awardees (collectively "prime awardees") for reporting subaward and executive compensation data pursuant to the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 and associated 2008 amendments (the "Transparency Act" or "FFATA").

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FFATA sub-award reporting

Documents from the FFATA Town-hall held on September 23, 2010:

Recently Added Reports

Recently Added Features

  •  February 25, 2011Select to Show Details

    • Trends – Added Purchase Card data for Q4 FY 2010 and Q1 FY 2011
    • Generated full and incremental Data Feed Archives for the month of Jan 2011
    • USAspending.gov has been updated to handle the following new business types added in CCR:
      • 8A - Women-Owned Small Business
      • 8E - Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business
      • 8C - Joint Venture Women-Owned Small Business
      • 8D - Joint Venture Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business

  •  January 28, 2011Select to Show Details

    • Trends — Changed the functionality of the Trends mentioned below to mandate selection of one of the drop downs in the Graph View
      • Trend Graph View
        By Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Program Made Agency selection mandatory from the "By Agency" dropdown
        By Congressional District Made the state selection mandatory from the "By State" dropdown
        By Recipient Congressional District Made the state selection mandatory from the "By Recipient State" dropdown
        By Products or Services Purchased Added a new dropdown for the "By Product/Service Category" and Made Product/Service Category selection mandatory from the "By Product/Service Category" dropdown
    • Trends - Added Extent Competed Type as an option in the Graph View on the X and Y axes
    • Defaulted the fiscal year to 2011 throughout the USAspending website
    • Included FY 2011 data in Trends tab for the List and Graph Views
    • Advanced Search Results page - Provided the option to select the number of search results per page and display the transaction number for each record
    • Recently Added Features section — Updated to display the last two release items in an expanded format and collapse the previous release items by default. Added the option to expand or collapse any of the release items
    • DSVT - Added an exact record length check for the number of characters in the FAADS PLUS submissions for Assistance and Program Source data

  •  January 07, 2011Select to Show Details

    • Modified XML Exports (List of Sub-awardees, Sub-awardee Profiles, List of Recipients, Recipient Profiles) when multiple Fiscal year and State associated with a Sub-awardee or Recipient are selected
    • Added full and incremental Data Feed Archives for the month of Dec 2010

  •  December 29, 2010Select to Show Details

    • Added Subscription feature for API users
    • Added capability to search for multiple values in a comma separated format for various fields on the Prime Award and Sub-award Advanced Search pages — Recipient DUNS Number, Parent Contractor DUNS Number, Sub-awardee DUNS Number, ZIP Code, Procurement Instrument Identifier, IDV Procurement Instrument Identifier, Federal Award Identifier, CFDA Program Number, State Application Identifier, Program Source: Agency Code and Account Code
    • Added different color coding for "Insurance" and "Others" Type of Spending in the bar charts on the By Agency tab
    • Added missing data elements in Data feeds/Archives and the APIs
      • ccrexception
        fedbizopps
        isalaskannativeownedcorporationorfirm
        iscorporateentitytaxexempt
        isdotcertifieddisadvantagedbusinessenterprise
        isforprofitorganization
        isfoundation
        ishispanicservicinginstitution
        ismanufacturerofgoods
        isprivateuniversityorcollege
        isschoolofforestry
        isstatecontrolledinstitutionofhigherlearning
        istribalcollege
        isveterinaryhospital
        localareasetaside
        maj_fund_agency_cat
        manufacturingorganizationtype
        nationalinterestactioncode
        pop_state_code
        priceevaluationpercentdifference
        receivescontracts
        subcontractplan
        vendor_state_code
    • Usability Improvements — Added consistent Button style, Hyperlink style, Active style, Header placement and Bar Order in Summaries tab

  •  December 10, 2010Select to Show Details

    • Added Top 5 Principal NAICS codes widget to the Sub-award Search Results Summary View.
    • Trends — Display the Congressional Districts based on the State selected when navigating between tabs
    • DSVT — Fixed special character issue for FAADS PLUS file Submissions
    • DSVT — Fixed Multiple File validation Issue
    • Data Feeds — Added feature to display FAADS PLUS files based on 'Submission(s) Due for' field as well as 'Date File Received' fields

  •  December 1, 2010Select to Show Details

    • Added sub-grant data.
    • DSVT — Implemented validations for Recipient Country Code and Principal Place of Performance Country Code fields based on ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes only.

  •  November 12, 2010Select to Show Details

    • Added percentage on the hover over of the Map on the Search Results page and Map List view.
    • Added percentages to the bar graphs on the Search Results Summary View page.
    • DSVT - Added a new calendar pop-up for the start date and end date.
    • Added Top 5 Principal NAICS codes widget to the Prime Search Results Summary View.
    • Implemented FSRS API for the sub-award data.

  •  October 29, 2010Select to Show Details

    • Extended the Generic DUNS implementation to the complete set as received from GSA.
    • Removed "What's New" tab from FAQs page.
    • Replaced the term "Purchase Cards" with "Charge Cards" in Trends page.
    • Uploaded ECA's 4th Quarter 2010 One Page Summaries and 990 Contacts extract.
    • Implemented display of Executive Compensation data for the Prime Award Data.
    • Provided multi-select dropdown with sub-categories for NAICS and PSC codes on the Prime Award / Sub-award Advanced Search pages.
    • Performed Data Feeds (Prime Award Data) performance improvements.

  •  October 15, 2010Select to Show Details

    • Add Pagination for Search Results Export for Complete Level of Detail.
    • Add "Sub-award Documents" page.
    • Add full/incremental Data Feed Archives for the month of Oct 2010.

  •  October 1, 2010Select to Show Details

    • Display data on Federal Contracts First-tier Sub-awards.
    • Display executive compensation data related to Federal prime or sub-contract awardees, if required under the Transparency Act.
    • Sub-award and executive compensation reporting requirement goes into effect for:
      • Federal contracts:
        • Beginning July 2010 for prime contracts greater than $20 million;
        • Beginning October 1, 2010 for prime contracts greater than $550,000;
        • Beginning March 1, 2011 for prime contracts greater than or equal to $25,000.
      • Federal grants, beginning October 1, 2010, for new prime grant awards of $25,000 and over. Prime awardees will be able to report in FSRS beginning October 29, 2010.

  •  August 26, 2010Select to Show Details

    • Display Parents Duns No. in ALL reports/exports.
    • Add Limitation of Liability disclaimer.
    • Add option for By Recipient Type under Assistance Views for Trends.
    • Add multi-select capability for Contractor Type, Extent Competed, NAICS Code Category, Funding Sub-Agency, Legislative Mandates, Type of Contract Used, Type of Assistance and Type of Recipient fields on Advanced Search page.
    • Resolve printing related issues on Summary pages.
    • Ensure Total Dollars are displayed consistently for all List views.

  •  August 10, 2010Select to Show Details

    • Add FY 2010 Purchase Card data
    • Improve usability of Trends tab
    • Display filter parameters in List View
    • Multiselect capability for Agency/Sub-agency dropdown on Advanced Search page
    • Ability to access historical data through the Data Feeds tab -> Archives subtab
    • Ability to download changed records through the Data Feeds tab

  •  July 25, 2010Select to Show Details

    • Display newly added functionality on the site
    • Help section on conducting searches and running reports
    • Expand Export functionality to summary pages
    • Add search filter parameters on data exports in CSV, Tab and XML formats
    • Improve usability of Search Results, Advanced Search and Complete Details View pages

  •  July 11, 2010Select to Show Details

    • Export search results at the List of Recipients, Recipient Profile and Complete Details levels
    • Change default views from displaying FY 2009 data to FY 2010 data
    • Remove FY 2000 and add FY 2010 data on tabular Trend reports
    • Display Top 5 Sub-Agencies in Summary views
    • Summary views for Sub-Agencies and Minor agencies

  •  June 28, 2010Select to Show Details

    • Display aggregate metrics (total transactions and dollars) on Summary views
    • Include exhaustive list of FPDS data elements in Complete Details site view and data download

  •  June 18, 2010Select to Show Details

    • Narrow search results by 'Type of Spending'
    • Conduct exact phrase searches using quotations ("")
    • Summary view of search results
    • Display timeliness of data submission and freshness of data on the site
    • Export search results at the Summary and List of Transactions levels

What's New in 2.0?

  1. Compare spending across agencies – understand types of agency spending
  2. View agency spending dashboards - see how and where agencies are spending money and who the recipients are
  3. Explore spending trends with interactive charts – use interactive motion charts to see how spending trends have changed from year to year
  4. See spending where you live – use interactive maps to see dollars being spent in your state
  5. Quickly find what you are looking for – use interactive search features to customize your search across multiple dimensions
  6. Filter, analyze and share – share your feeds, exports and results with friends via social book-marking and RSS feeds
  7. Analyze contract and award transactions – review all transactions for a single contract or award in one simple list
  8. Download bulk data – download all spending data for offline analysis
  9. Get spending updates every day – access new spending data on a daily basis
  10. Expect more transparency – look for more spending data in the future as 2.0 is engineered to support full FFATA compliance

Watch the FFATA Sub-award Reporting System (FSRS.gov) webinars

GSA's Office of Government-wide policy has hosted several overview webinars to introduce the grants sub-award reporting functionality coming to FSRS.gov on October 29, 2010. You can watch the previously recorded webinars by clicking on the session title links below.

Additionally, a learning module demonstrating the capabilities of the current FSRS tool for reporting Federal contract sub-awards entitled "FSRS Contractor Demonstration"is already available at http://www.fsrs.gov under "Training Materials."

Grant sub-award reporting user guides, FAQ's, and an on-line demonstration video will be incorporated into FSRS on October 29, 2010.

All prime awardee data as reported by agencies. The assistance prime awardee data includes agency submissions as of 06/01/2011 and the contracts prime awardee data includes procurement data downloaded from FPDS as of 05/30/2011. Please note that availability of DOD contracts prime awardee data is delayed by 90 days to protect operations tempo. All Sub-awardee data is based on prime awardee submissions from FSRS, for sub-contracts as of 06/01/2011 and for sub-grants as of 06/01/2011. For more information about the data, data sources, and data timeliness, please see Learn.
Caution

You are about to move from Sub-award data source to Prime Award data source and all of your search filters will be reset. If you filtered your search, you will need to redefine your search query under the new data set.

Caution

You are about to move from Prime Award data source to Sub-award data source and all of your search filters will be reset. If you filtered your search, you will need to redefine your search query under the new data set.