Feedback: Funding Sub Tier Agency Name/Code And Funding Office Name/Code

[elainekamlley]

Update 8/28/2015: Thank you for your feedback on the data elements Funding Sub Tier Agency Name/Code And Funding Office Name/Code. We will consider your feedback as we continually assess how we can improve data definitions.

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This is the place to leave your feedback and questions about the following data elements:

• Funding Sub Tier Agency Name
• Funding Sub Tier Agency Code
• Funding Office Name
• Funding Office Code

The proposed definition of the above elements: http://fedspendingtransparency.github.io/whitepapers/sub-tier-agency/

Federal Spending Collaboration home page: http://fedspendingtransparency.github.io/

[HerschelC]

Just a typo in second paragraph
"Department of independent agency"
I think that this should be "or"

And kudos for provided additional levels of detail in the data!

The hierarchies, like the one mentioned is maintained by GSA for IAE, should be published as metadata alongside the data downloads.

[DQ0000]

Leveraging FPDS-NG data and preponderance of funds will leave many joint procurements still in the dark. The visibility should be captured for all money, not the preponderance of funds on an action.

[HerschelC]

I agree with the point made by @DQ0000 . Why can't all of the data be accurately reported to the dollar and agency? The award will (hopefully) have the full dollar amount of the transaction. An agency will be associated with that award - the one that provided the preponderance of funds.
But then this data is inaccurate if other agencies contributed funds because agency X didn't just spend that amount of money.

If we sum the dollar amount spent by each agency, this amount would never be accurate because there are other agencies providing funds that aren't listed. We need to be able to follow every dollar and associate it with every agency. [Excluding the data purposefully exempt from reporting which should all be dumped into an "other" bucket so the public and reconcile our checkbook of US Federal Spending]

There should at a minimum be a flag to let us know that other agencies contributed funds to the award. That would let the users of the data know there's something fuzzy with the math and that these transactions won't necessarily summarize. This is a workaround though; not a desired end state.

[Justice2015]

agreed with other comments

[kafix]

The definition should clearly state the source for the Sub Tier Agency Code / Name and Office Code / Name, so these values are provided consistently across agencies.

[elainekamlley]

Update 8/28/2015: Thank you for your feedback on the data elements Funding Sub Tier Agency Name/Code And Funding Office Name/Code. We will consider your feedback as we continually assess how we can improve data definitions.

You may still contribute the discussion for other data elements. Check http://fedspendingtransparency.github.io/dataelements/ to find data elements with open feedback pages.