What are the differences between award types? Contracts, Contract IDVs, Grants, Loans, Direct Payments, Others?

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What are the differences between award types? Contracts, Contract IDVs, Grants, Loans, Direct Payments, Others? #3

Closed vob2 closed 4 years ago

vob2 commented 4 years ago

Please answer if you know.

harishk05 commented 4 years ago

The Glossary on usaspending.gov (top right of home page) contains definitions. I think we may need to rule out grants (which, e.g., go to state governments). Maybe loans are also not relevant. But we can look through award types when we download the data and rule out the irrelevant ones.