DOI: 10.3886/e237344v1
title: US Federal Procurement Contract Awards, FY2006-FY2019

description: Universe of prime awards from all federal agencies between the fiscal years 2006 and 2019. The records come from the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation (FPDS-NG). The data are published by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, through the website usaspending.gov.<br>The data were downloaded from usaspending.gov in March 2020. As of August 2025, downloading these records is possible through the following URL:<br>https://www.usaspending.gov/download_center/award_data_archive.<br>Note, however, that the files may have been updated, reorganized, or changed since our download.<br>The deposit consists of 14 .zip files, one for each fiscal year between 2006 and 2019. Once unzipped, each file generates a directory with all the contract awards for that year, divided over serveral csv files. The full data consists of 63 `.csv` files with a total size of 96.0 GB. The unit of observation is a contract action. The list of files and the subdirectory organization is:<br>All_PrimeTransactions_2006/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2006_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2006_2.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2006_3.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2006_4.csvAll_PrimeTransactions_2007/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2007_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2007_2.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2007_3.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2007_4.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2007_5.csvAll_PrimeTransactions_2008/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2008_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2008_2.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2008_3.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2008_4.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2008_5.csvAll_PrimeTransactions_2009/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2009_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2009_2.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2009_3.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2009_4.csvAll_PrimeTransactions_2010/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2010_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2010_2.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2010_3.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2010_4.csvAll_PrimeTransactions_2011/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2011_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2011_2.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2011_3.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2011_4.csvAll_PrimeTransactions_2012/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2012_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2012_2.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2012_3.csvAll_PrimeTransactions_2013/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2013_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2013_2.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2013_3.csvAll_PrimeTransactions_2014/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2014_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2014_2.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2014_3.csvAll_PrimeTransactions_2015/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2015_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2015_2.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2015_3.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2015_4.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2015_5.csvAll_PrimeTransactions_2016/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2016_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2016_2.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2016_3.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2016_4.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2016_5.csvAll_PrimeTransactions_2017/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2017_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2017_2.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2017_3.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2017_4.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2017_5.csvAll_PrimeTransactions_2018/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2018_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2018_2.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2018_3.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2018_4.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2018_5.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2018_6.csvAll_PrimeTransactions_2019/├── All_PrimeTransactions_2019_1.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2019_2.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2019_3.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2019_4.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2019_5.csv├── All_PrimeTransactions_2019_6.csv└── All_PrimeTransactions_2019_7.csv<br>