Overview / How the contract figures are calculated

How the contract figures are calculated

One consistent population

All 7 CSV files in FY2025_All_Contracts_Full_20260806.zip contribute to the totals. Headline, agency and recipient sums reconcile to the cent. A minimum threshold controls detail-page publication only; it never changes the overall money total.

Obligations are not payments

We sum federal_action_obligation on transaction rows using integer cents, including negative deobligations. We do not sum award-level running totals or contract ceilings. Amounts are shown rounded to whole dollars on screen; CSV and PDF reports preserve cents.

Awards and transactions are different

Transactions count rows. Awards count distinct contract_award_unique_key values at the displayed scope. Global distinct awards are calculated independently, not by adding agency totals. Missing award IDs are excluded from distinct-award counts and retained in transaction totals.

Recipient identity

We group by UEI. Matching names do not imply a parent-company relationship. Rows without a UEI use explicitly labelled name groups and do not receive profile pages. There are 0 rows without UEIs and 0 without award IDs.

Publication thresholds

Agency detail pages require at least 10 distinct awards or an absolute net obligation of $10 million. The recipient directory includes identities with at least three transactions. Profiles cover the 500 largest qualifying UEIs by absolute net obligations, each with at least three transactions, at least two distinct awards, and either 10 distinct awards or $10 million in absolute net obligations. Other directory records remain searchable without thin detail pages.

Rankings and concentration

Rankings sort by absolute net obligation unless explicitly labelled otherwise, preserving negative values. Recipient HHI uses absolute net obligations across all recipient identities in the agency, not just the top-100 table. Report above/below averages use the displayed top-100 qualifying cohort and do not rate performance.

Dates and refreshes

Fiscal year is determined from action date; FY2025 runs from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025. This archive was published on 2026-08-06 and processed on 2026-10-09. Reprocessing changes coverage, not the archive’s publication date. A refresh must pass the same reconciliation checks before publication.