U.S. Federal Contract Awards for Schedules and Technology

GSA eLibrary provides current contract award information for U.S. federal procurement vehicles, including GSA Schedules, VA Schedules, and Technology Contracts. The dataset is published by the General Services Administration and was last updated in May 2021. It contains details on contracts, their respective schedules, and special item numbers.

Use Cases

• Analyze contract award patterns across different procurement schedules like GSA Schedules or VA Schedules.
• Map the distribution of contracts under specific technology vehicles such as IT Schedule 70 or Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs).
• Track the assignment of Special Item Numbers (SINs) to contracts to understand procurement categorization.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative General Services Administration, the central procurement agency for the U.S. federal government.
• Released under a CC0 license, allowing for unrestricted public use and analysis.
• Covers multiple major federal contract vehicles, including Schedules, GWACs, and Network Services contracts.

Limitations

• The dataset's last update was in May 2021, making the information potentially stale for current market analysis.
• Specific data structure details like row count, column names, and sample data are unavailable, complicating initial assessment.
• Primary file format is XLS, which may require conversion for use in modern data science workflows.

Provenance

Source

General Services Administration

Collection Method

Aggregated from the GSA eLibrary (formerly Schedules e-Library), the online source for federal contract award information.

Time Range

Covers current contracts as of the last update; specific start date is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated 2021-05-12; update frequency is unknown.

Geography

United States federal government procurement.