Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation (FPDS-NG)

The U.S. government's central database of record for federal contract and procurement actions, including DoD prototype Other Transaction awards. It matters to this vault as the specific, named mechanism behind a documented tracking failure: DoD's own Inspector General found FPDS-NG was not configured to track consortium sub-awards and instead reported estimated contract ceilings as if they were actual obligated value, overstating one audited sample's real spending by roughly a factor of three. Alongside the separate Defense Assistance Awards Data System (for research OTs), FPDS-NG's structural limits are the mechanical reason GAO and CRS both independently concluded DoD lacks systematic by-subject-area OT funding data.

References

• claim-dodig-2021-077-fpds-ng-overstated-ot-sample-value-by-factor-of-three
• claim-crs-gao-found-dod-lacks-systematic-ot-funding-data-by-subject-area