---
title: "Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation (FPDS-NG)"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "concept"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation"
aliases: ["FPDS-NG","FPDS"]
first_seen: "2026-10-19T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Other Transactions authority","defense-funding opacity","US General Accounting Office"]
seek_code_commit: "d40ee39"
---


The U.S. government's central database of record for federal contract and procurement actions, including DoD prototype [[entity-other-transactions-authority|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 [[entity-us-general-accounting-office|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]]