Bridge Investment Program — CFDA 20.264

Twenty awards carry nearly $993.7M

Assistance listing 20.264 is titled BRIDGE INVESTMENT PROGRAM in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $993,656,012.29. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $993.7M as steel already erected mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

20 awards sit under that dollar book—among the lowest record counts in this dollar band. Dividing $993,656,012.29 by 20 produces a mean near $49.68 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical letting and not a cost per span. Bridge Investment dollars often sit on a handful of large capital actions, which is why 20 records can carry $993.7M.

14 recipients in 12 states

CFDA 20.264 lists 14 recipients and 12 states against 20 awards. Recipient count is not unique construction crews. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. A state DOT or local agency can appear on more than one award; 14 is not a census of contractors. The 12-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, concentrated rather than national, and is not a map of every deficient bridge.

Because 20 awards are few, a single large action can move $993,656,012.29 without a matching jump in the 14-recipient count. Extra modifications can lift award volume while dollars barely move. The Bridge Investment hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus bridge-construction outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $993,656,012.29 figure for CFDA 20.264 can include multi-year construction commitments that will disburse later. A National Bridge Inventory extract, a letting list, and a Treasury outlay series are different publications. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 20.264 program page. Do not stretch 20 awards or 12 states to cover every federal dollar that touches a bridge.

What the 20.264 tables omit

The Bridge Investment Program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a structurally deficient inventory, not a traffic-count file, and not a contractor performance score. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $993,656,012.29. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 20 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 12 states is a coding field. A statewide grantee coded to one cell can dominate geography while work sits on many crossings. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 20.264

A complete citation is $993,656,012.29 in obligations for CFDA 20.264, covering 20 awards, 14 recipients, and 12 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is concentration rather than dollars, lead with 20 awards, 14 recipients, and 12 states, then the $993.7M total.

Start with the Bridge Investment Program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is a bid instruction.

A worked reading of the 20.264 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $993,656,012.29, 20 awards, 14 recipients, and 12 states under CFDA 20.264. The mean near $49.68 million is a quotient from a tiny award count, not a typical bridge letting. If a later USAspending.gov file adds one large capital action, dollars can jump while 12 states barely move. If modifications proliferate, 20 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $993.7M.

Nothing in the extract splits replacement from rehabilitation, or large bridges from smaller ones. Those cuts live outside this packet. Treat CFDA 20.264 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 20 awards and 12 states next to the dollars so the concentration is visible.

Questions

How much is obligated under the Bridge Investment Program?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $993,656,012.29 in obligations for CFDA 20.264, Bridge Investment Program. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of spans. The same extract lists 20 awards, 14 recipients, and 12 states.

Why does CFDA 20.264 have only 20 awards?

The indexed award count is 20 against 14 recipients and 12 states. Bridge Investment dollars often sit on a handful of large capital actions, which is why $993,656,012.29 can coexist with a very low record count. The 20 figure is a file statistic, not a count of bridges. Recipient count is not unique contractors.

Does the $993.7M total include construction already paid?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $993,656,012.29 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 20-award count is a record tally, not a count of completed spans. Cite CFDA 20.264 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 20.264?

The extract codes 12 states for the Bridge Investment Program. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a national deficient-bridge map. Those rows still sit under the $993,656,012.29 obligation total and the 14-recipient count.