Where are the federal contract award notices or FPDS entries for work at the White House East Wing?
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Executive summary
Reporting supplied for this query highlights donors, demolition photographs and industry compliance questions around the White House East Wing project, but does not present or point to specific Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) or federal contract award notices that document construction work for the East Wing; searches of the referenced sources do not surface an FPDS entry or a USAspending record tied explicitly to “East Wing” construction in the materials provided [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].
1. What the news coverage shows — donors, demolition and compliance concerns
Mainstream and advocacy reporting about the East Wing has focused on the $300M ballroom project, a released donor list and images of demolition rather than formal procurement notices, with Fortune, ABC and Common Dreams covering the donor list and visible demolition activity [1] [2] [3], and Engineering News‑Record flagging contractor compliance risks when privately financed work occurs on federal grounds [6].
2. Where formal federal contract data normally lives — FPDS and USAspending
Official federal contract awards and task/delivery orders are normally recorded in the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) and surfaced via USAspending.gov, and procurement policy and reporting responsibilities for federal acquisitions are described by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and related White House procurement resources [7] [5]; the supplied USAspending link in the reporting bundle did not resolve to a human‑readable record for the East Wing in the materials provided [5].
3. What the provided procurement‑oriented sources show (and do not show)
The collection includes market‑intelligence portals and contract‑news aggregators — Federal Compass lists awarded contracts for the Executive Office of the President in general [8] and industry sites catalog contract awards across government [9] [10] — but none of those supplied pages in this reporting packet contain an explicit FPDS award line or contract notice labeled as “White House East Wing” construction or demolition work that can be cited directly [8] [9] [10] [5].
4. Possible explanations and legal/oversight context from the reporting
The reporting and trade analysis suggest why an FPDS/USAspending line might not be obvious in public coverage: the project has been portrayed as privately financed or donor‑funded even as it occurs on federal property, which raises complex compliance and oversight questions noted by ENR — that privately financed work on federal ground still carries federal compliance obligations and could trigger congressional oversight if documentation remains incomplete [6]; that framing in the press may explain emphasis on donors rather than a standard FPDS procurement trace in the articles reviewed [3] [1].
5. What can be done next and how to locate an FPDS entry if it exists
To find an FPDS or USAspending record tied to East Wing work — if a federal award exists — one should search FPDS/USAspending using multiple permutations (awardee company names reported in donor lists, NAICS codes for construction, “Executive Office of the President” as the awarding agency) and consult Executive Office of the President procurement pages and contract‑reporting feeds mentioned in procurement guidance [7] [8] [5]; the assembled reporting here does not include a discoverable FPDS award notice for the East Wing, so determining whether a federal contract entry exists requires checking the live FPDS/USAspending databases and oversight inquiries not contained in these sources [8] [5] [6].