NAICS 325120 industrial gas manufacturing obligations

Industrial gases, not a residual chemical bucket

NAICS 325120 is industrial gas manufacturing. Contracting officers assign it when the principal product is industrial gases as the Census class groups them. This $1,411,142,056.61 is that manufacturing tag. It is not a medical-billing total, not a residual 325998 preparation class, and not a compressed-air utility bill from in-house plant air.

Eleven thousand one hundred eighty awards produced a mean of about $126,000. Federal gas buys often mix cylinder and bulk deliveries, medical and industrial grades, and standing supply contracts, which sits between a small cylinder order and a dedicated air-separation plant. The packet does not count cubic feet, cylinders, or purity grades.

All other miscellaneous chemical product manufacturing (325998) is a residual preparations class. A specialty chemical tagged 325998 does not sit in $1.4 billion under 325120. Those 11,180 awards are the industrial-gas book as tagged, not a count of cylinders in federal storerooms.

Standing supply and payment timing

Gas-supply contracts often obligate estimated quantities and pay as deliveries post. Unused option years leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $1.4 billion as gas already consumed would overstate cash.

The 11,180-award count is not a delivery-ticket count. USAspending may still group multiple orders into awards. Dividing $1,411,142,056.61 by 11,180 awards is a mean obligation per award identifier, not a price per cubic foot.

What this total excludes

Assistance that funds hospital operations often lacks NAICS and does not enter $1,411,142,056.61. In-house government plants that generate nitrogen or oxygen are not 325120 contracts. Merchant wholesalers of chemicals tagged to a 424 wholesale NAICS follow a distribution class.

Natural-gas utilities are a 221 class, not industrial gas manufacturing. Mixed pipeline-and-cylinder vehicles follow the principal NAICS the officer selected. Medical-grade and industrial-grade gases can share 325120 when that is the principal product. The $1,411,142,056.61 total does not split purity grades across the 11,180 awards.

How to use the 325120 hub

Read $1.4 billion and 11,180 awards as the industrial-gas manufacturing tag, then open the industrial gas manufacturing industry page for award-level fields. Rank 325 chemical codes on the all-industries index without converting this gas class into residual preparations or a natural-gas utility total.

This guide does not add cylinder inventories because they are not in the facts object. A cylinder reseller tagged to a wholesale NAICS is not this manufacturing book. Quote obligations, not cubic feet, and keep natural-gas utility totals out because they are a 221 class.

Classification limits

Industrial gas manufacturing is not residual chemical preparations and not a natural-gas utility. SpendingVault reports the tagged 325120 sum.

Extract updates will move $1,411,142,056.61 and 11,180 with USAspending.

Cylinders and bulk on the books versus gas consumed

Eleven thousand one hundred eighty awards at $1,411,142,056.61 produce a mean of about $126,000. Industrial-gas contracts often look like standing supply: many delivery actions, moderate mean. That is not a cubic-foot price. Residual miscellaneous chemical preparations (325998) remain a different 325 class. Natural-gas utilities are a 221 class, not industrial gas manufacturing. A pipeline utility award tagged 221 is not this $1.4 billion.

Assistance that funds hospital operations often omits NAICS and stays outside $1,411,142,056.61. In-house plants that generate nitrogen or oxygen are not 325120 contracts. Wholesale chemical merchants follow a 424 class when that is the principal tag. Open the industrial gas manufacturing industry page for award-level fields. Rank 325 chemical codes on the all-industries index. Cite USAspending.gov. Unused options mean obligated gas dollars can exceed volumes already delivered. Extract updates will move both the dollars and the 11,180-award count. A searcher asking how much the federal government spent on industrial gases should still separate this manufacturing class from residual chemical preparations and from natural-gas utilities. The $1,411,142,056.61 figure answers the NAICS 325120 question only. The 11,180-award count answers how many award identifiers carried that tag, not how many cylinders moved. Open the industrial gas manufacturing industry page, then compare other 325 chemical codes on the all-industries index. Keep the language to obligations recorded in USAspending.gov, and do not convert the mean of about $126,000 into a price per cubic foot.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 325120?

Industrial gas manufacturing contracts in USAspending show $1,411,142,056.61 in obligations across 11,180 awards. That is an industrial-gas manufacturing tag, not residual chemical preparations and not a natural-gas utility. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without NAICS is excluded from this extract.

What is the average industrial-gas award?

Dividing $1,411,142,056.61 by 11,180 awards yields about $126,000. That mean mixes cylinder and bulk supply vehicles in this extract. It is not a price per cubic foot and not a purity-grade price. The packet does not publish a median or a delivery-ticket count.

Does this include miscellaneous chemical products?

Only contract actions tagged 325120. All other miscellaneous chemical product manufacturing is NAICS 325998. Mixed gas-and-preparation buys follow the principal code the officer selected. This $1.4 billion is the industrial-gas tag. Use each industry hub for its own Census class on SpendingVault.

Are these dollars already paid to gas producers?

No. USAspending reports obligations on this hub, not outlays. Open delivery orders and unused options can leave balances unliquidated after the award posts. The 11,180-award count is not a proof of gas consumed. Cite USAspending.gov for the tagged extract on SpendingVault.