Government Contracts–United States–Databases
Source: GCN
GSA to offer some free access to federal contract data
Free? It’s free AFTER paying a one time $2500 fee. From the article, “The General Services Administration will provide the public with free access to some federal contract information through the Federal Procurement Data System Next Generation. Access to all of the raw contract data will be provided for a one-time $2,500 fee, GSA official David Drabkin said today. The new FPDS will be available to the public Oct. 1, according to GSA…The new database will provide users with up-to-date contracting information, according to GSA. In the past, the data has been three to nine months old by the time it was published, Drabkin said…Access to some data may be delayed up to 90 days for security reasons, Drabkin said. For example, if the Army bought equipment or supplies that would indicate an upcoming military operation, ‘they wouldn’t want folks around the world to know what they were doing,’ he said.”
See Also: GSA News Release

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