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Load AWARD Notices #21

Open arowla opened 10 years ago

arowla commented 10 years ago

We still need to figure out how we are going to treat awards. My initial thought is to have them be a different doc type in Elasticsearch.

But this will likely allow us to do some cool things, such as link awards to usaspending.gov. (See #16.)

marks commented 10 years ago

What is unique about awards as opposed to PRESOLs/COMBINEs? Does one "just" need to modify process_notice() and associated functions to extract fields from the JSON representations of awards

kaitlin commented 10 years ago

I think the most important distinctions are the recipient information, award amount(s), and award id. Like mentioned in #16 it allows for direct comparison with USASpending/FPDS expenditures.

One of the issues with award ids is that you can have multiple ids if you have multiple recipients, and instead of delimiting them, they sometimes just use a weird "range" notation. For instance,

HHSM-500-2007-00014I-00028I

(as seen in https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=e30fa27ef8f8dd65067d579645809c52&_cview=0)

Really means:

HHSM-500-2007-00014I HHSM-500-2007-00015I HHSM-500-2007-00016I HHSM-500-2007-00017I HHSM-500-2007-00018I ... HHSM-500-2007-00028I

So it's a bit weird because agencies don't uniformly create award ids/piids in the same way. They are essentially namespaced by agency and sometimes program office. It would be nice if there were a way to have the input be comma delimited, otherwise it's a bit tricky to untangle.

arowla commented 10 years ago

Isn't it also possible to have multiple awards notices per solicitation? (Haven't had the time to research this yet...)

kaitlin commented 10 years ago

Probably? I don't know for sure.

dwcaraway commented 10 years ago

I suggest making the awards a separate REST resource (/awards) -- see SBIR.gov . Then allow each solicitation support having multiple award notices.

For SBIRs, each solicitation / topic can (and usually does) have 3 selectees for Phase 1. I know that many awards also have primary contractors and subs -- not sure if that is just a single award notice or multiple (probably just single).