Federal obligations in site preparation contractors (NAICS 238910)

Groundwork before the building, tagged at $804.1M

Site preparation contractors clear, excavate, grade, and otherwise ready land. Federal agencies buy that work for bases, civilian campuses, flood-control sites, and similar parcels. USAspending tags $804.1M of contract obligations to NAICS 238910 on 1,201 awards. The total is not acreage disturbed and not a count of projects completed.

Vertical builders, roofing contractors, and other specialty trades sit in neighboring construction codes. $804.1M follows the 238910 tag. Packet facts are the dollar total and the 1,201 count. Soil types, cubic yards, and project names are not in the harvest.

1,201 awards and a heavy-construction average

One thousand two hundred one awards against $804.1M averages about $670,000 per action. That size fits multi-acre earthwork packages better than a single-day utility trench. Task orders and modifications still add to 1,201, so the count is not unique contractors and not unique sites.

A handful of large excavation obligations can account for most of $804.1M even when 1,201 rows appear on the hub. Amount sort on the industry page is the way to see that concentration. The simple average is a divider, not a typical task-order invoice.

Site prep versus vertical construction

Residential remodelers (236118) and roofing contractors (238160) are different trades. Prefabricated metal building manufacturing (332311) is a factory code, not dirt work. This page’s $804.1M is the 238910 contractor tag on 1,201 actions. Dual-role firms can be coded as general contractors on some awards and as site-prep specialists on others.

Cite the extract as $804.1M in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 238910, site preparation contractors, on 1,201 awards. The packet does not include a fiscal year. Live hub tables can shift after modifications; the harvested pair stays $804.1M and 1,201.

Committed dirt work, not cash already paid

Construction obligations often lock in a package before pay estimates catch up. $804.1M is committed value on 1,201 tagged actions, not every retainage already released. Terminations de-obligate. Outlays are a separate USAspending field.

Mis-tags happen when a single award covers both excavation and later building work. Keep $804.1M on 238910 as recorded, then read descriptions on the 1,201 rows. This overlay does not reclassify neighbor construction codes into the same unlabeled cell.

Where to open the rows

The site preparation contractors industry page lists the 1,201 awards behind $804.1M. The all-industries directory is the path to other construction and manufacturing codes without folding their dollars into this earthwork total. Source: USAspending.gov contract awards.

Assistance without NAICS still sits outside, even when a grant pays for similar grading. Program pages answer the grant question; this page answers the tagged-contract question. Internal links here are only the 238910 hub and the industry directory.

How to read an earthwork extract without overstating it

Site preparation looks like construction, and it is a construction trade, but it is not the building. $804.1M on 1,201 awards is the 238910 contractor tag only. Cubic yards, stormwater permits, and project names are absent from the packet. Treating the simple $670,000 average as a typical trench invoice would misread task-order inflation inside the 1,201 count.

Federal earthwork often sits on IDIQ vehicles. Each task order can increment award count without incrementing unique contractors. That is why 1,201 is not a vendor census. Amount sort on the site preparation contractors industry page shows whether a few large grading packages account for most of $804.1M. Vertical trades and prefab manufacturing stay on their own hubs.

Quote the public record as $804.1M in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 238910, site preparation contractors, on 1,201 awards. Dollars are obligations, not outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so a grant that pays for similar grading will not appear in this contract extract. Source: USAspending.gov contract awards. Internal links here are only the 238910 hub and the all-industries directory.

Questions

How much federal contracting is coded to site preparation contractors?

NAICS 238910 shows $804.1M in obligations on 1,201 USAspending contract awards. That is earthmoving and related site-prep trades as tagged, not vertical building. The unit is obligations, not outlays or acreage. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 1,201-award extract behind $804.1M.

Is 238910 the same as general building construction?

No. Site preparation is a specialty trade. General building and remodeling codes sit elsewhere. This page’s $804.1M follows the 238910 tag on 1,201 awards. Roofing, remodeling, and prefabricated metal building manufacturing are neighbor classes; do not merge them into the site-prep cell.

What does the average award size mean?

Dividing $804.1M by 1,201 awards yields about $670,000 per action. That fits large earthwork packages, but task orders and modifications also increment count. It is not unique contractors and not unique parcels. Sort the hub by amount to see whether a few large rows make up most of the tagged total.

Do construction grants appear in this total?

Usually not. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they fall outside this 1,201-award contract extract. Use program pages for grants. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $804.1M obligated on 1,201 site preparation contractor awards in USAspending. Outlays remain a different field.