Government Accountability Office federal obligations

$765.9 million on 942 GAO awards

The precise total is $765,932,457.62. Divided by 942 awards, the implied mean is about $813,000 per award. Facilities, IT, and other support contracts can occupy those rows; this packet does not split the 942 count by engagement, so audit versus technology-assessment shares are not stated here.

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year. Multi-year support vehicles can remain open, so $765,932,457.62 is not a single legislative session’s cash. USAspending.gov is the source.

That mix is the research takeaway from the two packet facts together. 942 awards at a mean near $813,000 describe legislative-branch support contracting, not a catalog of audit reports. A later extract can change both the dollar total and the award count as multi-year support vehicles remain open inside FY 2026.

CGAC 005 as the awarding-agency identifier

SpendingVault keys GAO to /agencies/005/. CGAC 005 is the USAspending awarding-agency code. The $765,932,457.62 total and 942 award count roll up rows carrying that identifier. The award count is not a count of reports issued, recommendations open, or testimonies delivered.

Award files versus GAO’s published products

Audit reports, High Risk List updates, and bid-protest decisions are separate GAO products. This hub cites $765,932,457.62 in USAspending obligations through FY 2026 on 942 awards. Report counts and recommendation-implementation rates are not in the packet. Outlays are omitted.

Researchers sometimes treat an agency obligation total as cash already paid. For Government Accountability Office, that reading is wrong. Report counts, High Risk List items, recommendation-implementation rates, testimonies, or bid-protest volumes belong in other publications. The USAspending figure on this hub remains an obligation sum through FY 2026. Multi-year support vehicles remain open inside FY 2026.

State geography for GAO awards

Place-of-performance often follows headquarters and field-office locations plus contractors. The state table is a coding view of the 942 awards that sum to $765,932,457.62 through FY 2026, not a map of audited programs.

Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete economic-impact model. On this agency, headquarters and field-office locations plus contractors fill cells that are not maps of audited programs. Read the state table after the agency hub, not instead of it. Read CGAC 005 as an awarding-agency rollup; do not treat it as a findings digest.

GAO on the all-agencies list

Compare $765,932,457.62 and 942 awards only with other obligation totals from this extract. The hub does not summarize findings from any GAO report and does not advise litigants in bid protests.

The all-agencies list is useful only inside this extract’s obligation definition and FY 2026 cap. 942 awards at a mean near $813,000 describe legislative-branch support contracting, not a catalog of audit reports. Ranking on dollars alone hides that mix. Read CGAC 005 as an awarding-agency rollup; do not treat it as a findings digest.

GAO’s award file is not a report index

Audit reports and bid-protest decisions are separate GAO products. This hub cites $765,932,457.62 on 942 awards tagged 005 through FY 2026. Report counts and recommendation rates are not packet facts. A later USAspending extract can revise both the dollar total and the 942 count as new actions and modifications post against CGAC 005. Until that refresh, the documented book is 765932457.62 in obligations. That figure is not a performance score, not an enacted one-year appropriation, and not a recommendation to apply for funds. It is the award-file rollup this packet carries through FY 2026.

Office-level splits are omitted. The 942 count is not a testimony census. Rank GAO only against other obligation totals from this extract. The state table is award coding through FY 2026. CGAC 005 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/005/. The award population is 942 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays. CGAC 005 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/005/. The award population is 942 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays.

Questions

How much has GAO obligated on USAspending through FY 2026?

Government Accountability Office records (CGAC 005) sum to $765,932,457.62 across 942 awards in this extract. That figure is an obligation total from USAspending.gov through fiscal year 2026, not a report census and not a recommendation-implementation rate.

What is CGAC 005?

CGAC 005 is the USAspending awarding-agency code for the Government Accountability Office. SpendingVault’s GAO hub uses that code. The $765,932,457.62 obligation total and 942 award count roll up rows carrying 005 through FY 2026.

Does the award count include every field-office contract?

Only if those actions appear as USAspending rows tagged to awarding-agency 005 in this extract. The published totals are $765,932,457.62 and 942 awards through FY 2026. Office-level splits are not in this packet.

Where can I see GAO spending by state?

The state table from the CGAC 005 agency page uses place-of-performance fields on the same obligation extract. Geography rows still sit under $765,932,457.62 and 942 awards through FY 2026.