Connect to state contracting data

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In addition to the expenditures on Open FI$Cal, the state publishes contract data in a dataset called the State Contracting and Procurement Registration System (SCPRS).

SCPRS shows the information about the contracts that the state enters into with vendors, which indicate the amounts the state is authorized to pay those vendors for the contracted purposes. It does not show the amount the state actually pays to those vendors, nor when the amounts are paid. Open FI$Cal does show these payments.

It would be interesting to find a contract in SCPRS and then use Open FI$Cal to find the actual expenditures on that contract, tying the two together by vendor name, amount, timing, and acount. Does the state typically pay vendors the total amounts contracted for? Are there departments or purposes for which the state typically ends up not paying the total contracted amount?