Federal contract terminations by company

What this data cannot show

• A termination records that a contract ended early and under which FPDS reason. It does not record why, and nothing here says whether a termination was justified.
• The obligation on a termination is that modification’s net change to the contract, usually a de-obligation. It is not the contract’s value, and it is not a saving.
• Code F, termination for convenience, covers partial as well as complete terminations, so a contract counted here may continue in part.
• Awards are counted once each, however many termination actions they carry. A General Services Administration schedule order is an award, so a vendor that fills many small orders can lead by count while its obligations are small.
• Before April 2022 contractors were identified by DUNS number rather than UEI, so one company can appear under two identifiers across that change.
• This is the prime contractor named on the award. A parent company is the one each vendor reports; a vendor that reports none is its own parent.
• USAspending reports contract actions as agencies submitted them to FPDS. It is not an audited financial statement.
• This is the 100 vendors with the most terminated awards, of 11,375 with at least one. The find above reaches the rest.