Parent record attribute

• Type: relationship
• Relationship data type: Federal contract award; Federal grant award; Federal contract sub-award; Federal grant sub-award; Federal contract opportunity; Federal grant opportunity; Federal contract IDV; State and local contract opportunity; State and local contract award; State and local contract IDV; State and local contract vehicle
• Data types: Federal transaction, Government file
• Fields: parent_record

Use this relationship to see which opportunity, award, IDV, or vehicle a government file was collected under. It describes the file's source-record context, not ownership by a GovTribe user or workspace.

For a Federal transaction, parent_record is one immediate parent object. It contains the stored govtribe_id, recognized govtribe_type, and status (resolved or unavailable). Resolved parents add an available name, GovTribe URL, and contract or grant number where supported. Subaward transactions point to subaward records. Subaward links are not universally available. Unknown parent types return a null recognized type rather than inventing lineage.

Related articles

• Government files: Search source documents that commonly use parent record context.
• Federal contract record structure: Understand how parent and child federal procurement records fit together.
• Federal grant data model: Understand grant opportunity and award context for related files.
• State and local contract data model: Understand state and local opportunity, award, IDV, and vehicle context for related files.
• Source identifiers and record matching: Match files back to source records, identifiers, and originating links.