AmericaFollow an IDIQ contract’s orders without counting the same scope twice.
A parent vehicle and its orders are different record levels. For CCtCap parent NNK14MA74C, USAspending reports 12 child awards with $4,101,857,376.01 in combined obligations. One of those orders, NNK17MA01T, accounts for $3,549,243,793.00. Do not add that order again to the already-combined child total.
Record essentials
A parent, an order and a combined view
The parent’s unique key is CONT_IDV_NNK14MA74C_8000. The selected order’s key is CONT_AWD_NNK17MA01T_8000_NNK14MA74C_8000. The order’s parent_award field links these two records. The IDV amounts endpoint supplies a third view: combined amounts for the parent’s children.
The $3,549,243,793.00 order is included in the $4,101,857,376.01 combined child-obligation figure. Adding the two as if they described separate work would count that order twice. Preserve record level alongside every number.
Primary source 1 ↗ · Primary source 2 ↗ · Primary source 3 ↗
How to verify membership
Query the IDV related-awards endpoint with award_id CONT_IDV_NNK14MA74C_8000 and type child_awards. Our October 9 retrieval returned 12 rows with no next page. Match each generated_unique_award_id rather than joining on a description or company name.
Parent-only obligations are a separate field from child totals. Whether an analysis should include parent activity, child activity or both depends on the question. Do not label a child-only sum as the entire program or add a potential ceiling to obligations.
Selected-field source snapshot ↓ · Primary source 2 ↗ · Primary source 3 ↗
Do not retrofit an old announcement to a new scope
NASA’s August 31, 2022 announcement described five additional crew missions and a then-total CCtCap contract value of $4,927,306,350. That announcement date and scope are not the same as today’s combined child obligations or parent potential value.
A trustworthy table names its level explicitly: this order, parent only, all child orders, or another documented combination. A reader should be able to see which records were included and reproduce the sum.
Reproduce the public-data calculation.
These dated source snapshots preserve the selected award fields, exact POST request bodies, pagination, and transaction rows used for the worked examples. They are public records, not a live national database. For readability, the transaction extract maps federal_action_obligation to obligation, action_date to actionDate, and modification_number to modificationNumber. Request and pagination metadata remain attached.
What you can do next
- Identify whether the record is a parent IDV or an individual order.
- Copy its generated award key and reported parent key.
- Retrieve the child list and confirm pagination is complete.
- Use either individual child rows or their combined total, not both together.
- State whether parent-only transactions are included and keep potential values separate.
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Keep this boundary in view
This dated example covers one parent vehicle and its reported children. It is not all NASA crew transportation, all SpaceX awards or a measure of completed missions. Combined child amounts must not be treated as additional to every child order.
Selected federal prime-award examples. This is not every federal dollar, a complete recipient portfolio, or a finding of fraud. Snapshot figures can change with later transactions.
Primary sources
- Parent CCtCap record ↗2026-10-09 · Consulted October 9, 2026
- Selected CCtCap order ↗2026-10-09 · Consulted October 9, 2026
- Official IDV combined amounts ↗2026-10-09 · Consulted October 9, 2026
- IDV related-awards endpoint ↗2026-10-09 · Consulted October 9, 2026
- NASA’s 2022 additional-missions announcement ↗2022-08-31 · Consulted October 9, 2026
Questions worth resolving
Can I add an order to the combined child total?
Not if the order is already a member of that total. You would count its obligations twice.
Is a parent ceiling the same as orders actually funded?
No. Compare record levels and monetary measures separately.
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