Buy American Act Place of Manufacture Report

Business Scenarios

This report is available government wide with the ability to drill down to the department, contracting agency, and other levels. It is ideal for answering this type of business question:

What are the total Actions, Dollars and percentages for products manufactured inside and outside the U.S.?

This information is required by the Buy American Act and is used to analyze the percentage of certain Products Codes that are manufactured in and outside the U.S.

Using Advanced Reporting Features

For a description of the advanced reporting features available to FPDS-NG users, see the FPDS-NG Reports: Advanced Features help page.

Entering the Search Criteria

To view the report, enter the following values in the criteria fields:

 

Search Element

Value

Comment

Search Name

Buy American Act Place of Manufacture

If you wish to save the search criteria screen with customized information rename the Search Name field from “Default” to an appropriate label for the customized criteria screen. When you have completed this step click. The saved search criteria will be displayed as a link under the original report link in the My Reports section. Otherwise, leave this field as “Default.”

From Date (mm/dd/yyyy)

10/01/2006

Ø      Start date for the date range that the report would be run for.

Ø      Users should select the date range required from the provided calendar. Users can search in “mm/dd/yyyy” format.

Note: There is a maximum limit of 5 year search for data.

To Date (mm/dd/yyyy)

09/30/2011

Ø      End date for the date range that the report would be run for.

Ø      Users should select the date range required from the provided calendar. Users can search in “mm/dd/yyyy” format.

Note: There is a maximum limit of 5 year search for data.

Department ID

The four digit code

This corresponds to the Department ID of the user. This field will be defaulted to user's Department ID.

Agency ID

Selected or left blank

This corresponds to the Contracting Agency ID.

Ø      If selected, it displays data for the Contracting Agency.

Ø      If left blank, it displays data for the entire Department.

Organization Code

Selected or left blank

Ø      If selected, displays data for the Organization

Ø      If left blank, it displays data for the entire Department and the Contracting Agency, if chosen.

Contracting Office Region

Selected or left blank

It corresponds to the Region Code to which a Contracting

Office belongs.

Ø      If selected, it displays the data for the Contracting Office region.

Ø      If left blank, it displays data for all the Contracting Office Regions.

Ø      No “Wildcard” values are allowed

Contracting Office ID

Selected or left blank

Ø      If selected, it displays the data for the Contracting Office.

Ø      If left blank, it displays data for all the Contracting Offices under the Department.

 

Note: For a more successful search, include a wildcard (%) where appropriate or use the Ellipsis feature. For more information on these features, access the “First Time Using Reports” link located on the “My Reports” main page.

In this report, the Orange-Letter fields with an * are required and the black-letter fields are optional. If you would like to narrow your search, enter data in the optional fields. This generates specific data based on your search criteria. Examples of search criteria screens for this report are provided below.

Search Criteria Example