NAICS 325411 medicinal and botanical manufacturing: high award volume

High award count, moderate dollars per award

Two hundred ninety-three thousand nine hundred twenty awards is an order of magnitude above most NAICS hubs at this dollar level. Dividing $14,205,648,718.03 by 293,920 produces about $48,332 per award. That mean is consistent with many relatively small pharmaceutical-supply actions rather than a handful of billion-dollar production lines, though a few large awards can still sit inside the mix. The packet does not publish a median or a list of drug names.

The Census title covers medicinal and botanical manufacturing. Contracting officers apply the code to the principal purpose of the award. Finished pharmaceuticals, botanical extracts, and related manufacturing can all land here depending on that choice. Distribution of already-manufactured products may use wholesale NAICS codes instead and would not add to this $14.2 billion.

This page reports public contract aggregates. It does not recommend medicines, compare therapies, or interpret clinical outcomes. The only numbers in scope are the USAspending obligation total and the award count.

High-volume manufacturing codes behave like catalogs in the award table: many modest actions, a moderate dollar total, a low mean. NAICS 325411’s 293,920 awards and $14,205,648,718.03 fit that shape. A reader expecting a handful of blockbuster drug-production contracts will not find that pattern in the award count, though large awards can still sit inside the mean.

Obligations on a high-volume supply code

When award counts run into the hundreds of thousands, the obligation total is a stack of many actions. Cash outlays may track invoices closely on short-term supply orders, or they may lag on longer production contracts. This packet does not split those types. The $14.2 billion remains an obligation sum, not a statement that every dollar has been paid.

USAspending can group modifications into awards. The 293,920 figure is the award count in the extract, not a count of bottles, lots, or prescriptions. Readers who need line-item quantities will not find them in this industry aggregate.

Manufacturing tag versus wholesale and hospital tags

Merchant wholesalers of medical equipment and hospital NAICS codes are separate hubs. A pill manufactured under 325411 can later appear in a wholesale or hospital contract under a different code; those later actions are not double-counted here because this total only includes 325411 tags. Conversely, wholesale purchases of medicines manufactured by someone else may never touch this code.

Grants for biomedical research generally will not carry NAICS 325411. The industry total is contract manufacturing as tagged, per the packet source note.

Health-industry NAICS codes split makers, wholesalers, and hospitals. Medicinal manufacturing is 325411. Medical equipment wholesale is 423450. Hospitals are 622110. Surgical instruments are 339112. This $14.2 billion is the medicinal-and-botanical manufacturing tag. It is not a national prescription-drug account.

How to read the 325411 table

Use award count as the distinctive fact: 293,920 awards against $14.2 billion. On the all-industries index, this code will look different from low-count, high-dollar manufacturing NAICS. Open the medicinal and botanical manufacturing industry page to browse award rows.

Do not treat the $48,332 average as a drug price. It is obligations divided by awards. Pack size, active ingredient, and unit cost are not in the packet.

What the aggregate leaves out

Clinical effectiveness, safety, and prescribing decisions are outside USAspending industry totals. So are assistance awards without NAICS. SpendingVault does not recode actions that a reader might think “should” be 325411.

If the extract revises historical supply actions, both $14,205,648,718.03 and 293,920 will move. Until then, those are the recorded contract figures for this code.

How to read a 293,920-award table

The industry page for 325411 will be long. Filter and rank there rather than treating $14.2 billion as a single purchase. The mean of about $48,332 is an arithmetic convenience, not a price per bottle or per active ingredient.

Because award volume is high, extract updates may move the total through many small revisions rather than one large one. SpendingVault will follow USAspending. Assistance without NAICS stays outside the manufacturing figure. This page does not offer medical advice.

A 293,920-award manufacturing tag is a supply table first and a narrative second. Readers who need a named drug, a lot number, or a clinical comparison will not find those fields in $14,205,648,718.03. They will find an obligation sum, an award count, and a mean of about $48,332. That is the honest yield of this USAspending.gov extract.

Keep wholesale, hospital, and instrument-manufacturing hubs on their own pages when the question leaves this code. Medicinal and botanical manufacturing is NAICS 325411 only. SpendingVault will move with the source if later extracts revise the high-volume rows. This page remains a contract-industry view, not medical advice and not a prescription-drug expenditure account.

Questions

How many federal awards are tagged NAICS 325411?

USAspending contract records indexed on SpendingVault show 293,920 awards under medicinal and botanical manufacturing, totaling $14,205,648,718.03 in obligations. That is a high-volume award count relative to many manufacturing codes. The count is not a prescription count or a lot count. Detail rows are on the industry page.

What is the average NAICS 325411 contract?

Dividing $14,205,648,718.03 by 293,920 awards yields about $48,332. That arithmetic mean mixes small supply actions with any larger production awards in the set. It is not a unit price for a medicine. The packet does not include a median or product-level prices.

Does this total include Medicare drug spending?

This page totals USAspending contract awards tagged NAICS 325411. Entitlement payments and many assistance awards do not carry this manufacturing NAICS and are not in the $14.2 billion. The figure is a contract-industry slice, not a national prescription-drug expenditure account.

Is this medical advice?

No. SpendingVault reports USAspending obligation and award-count aggregates for a manufacturing NAICS code. The $14.2 billion and 293,920 awards describe tagged contracts. They do not evaluate medicines, dosages, or treatment choices. For clinical questions, use medical sources, not an industry spending table.