Federal obligations in other commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing (NAICS 333318)

A residual machinery-manufacturing code

NAICS 333318 is the “other” bucket inside commercial and service-industry machinery manufacturing. Named neighboring lines cover specific machine types. Work that contracting officers cannot place on those named lines can land here: mail-handling equipment, commercial laundry machinery, or other service-industry machines, depending on the award tag. The $4,872,842,849.79 total is that residual manufacturing tag, not a catalog of every machine the government owns.

A firm whose commercial catalog spans several 3333 codes can still appear only under 333318 on a given action if that is the NAICS on the award. SpendingVault reports the USAspending code, not the contractor’s full SAM primary-NAICS list. Do not read the row as an FEC employer string such as “manufacturer.”

33,898 awards on a $4.87 billion obligation stock

Thirty-three thousand eight hundred ninety-eight awards produced $4,872,842,849.79 in obligations. That action count is thicker than sparse heavy-civil codes and thinner than wholesale lines with hundreds of thousands of delivery orders. Spare-parts orders, equipment buys, and maintenance-adjacent manufacturing tags can all stack. The packet does not split those action types.

Obligations move with new awards, options, and modifications, including deobligations. Outlays are payments and are not this $4,872,842,849.79 rollup. A high spare-parts volume can raise the award count without making the industry a “small-dollar only” class. The table shows tagged dollars and the 33,898-award count.

How USAspending attaches 333318

Contract actions in USAspending.gov carry a NAICS chosen at award. Grants that buy equipment for a lab or a hospital are assistance instruments and often have no NAICS field. Those lines will not add to the 33,898 awards. Parent IDIQs and orders can disagree on codes across modifications.

The label is a Census manufacturing classification. It is not a product service code (PSC) rollup, not a SAM socio-economic roster, and not campaign-finance text. Cite USAspending.gov via SpendingVault for $4,872,842,849.79.

Reading the machinery table

The 333318 hub lists recipients and awards that share this NAICS tag. A large obligation is a disclosed commitment. It is not a finding that a machine failed, that a small business was excluded, or that an agency overbought. SpendingVault does not score equipment performance from the dollar total.

Use award IDs, not the $4,872,842,849.79 headline, to separate two manufacturers. Subcontracted component makers may be missing if the prime coded a different industry. UEI and name changes are ordinary in the file.

Neighboring 333 codes and the assistance gap

Construction machinery (333120) and other named 3333 lines are separate pages. Adding them to $4,872,842,849.79 would be a recode you must document. Repair of industrial machinery sits in 8113, not manufacturing. Open those industry pages from the all-industries index rather than treating 333318 as “all machines.”

Assistance awards without NAICS remain outside the 33,898-award count. For a manufacturer that also holds research grants, open the recipient record. This guide stays on contract NAICS 333318 from USAspending.gov. Keep obligations and outlays distinct: the headline is the former.

Residual tagging on mixed machinery catalogs

Vendors that sell several machine families often see individual delivery orders land in 333318 because the contracting officer used the residual class rather than a named 3333 line. That practice inflates this row relative to a “pure” Census establishment count. The $4,872,842,849.79 figure still follows the award tag. It does not reclassify the vendor’s other federal work coded 333120, 3339, or 811310.

Spare-parts actions can dominate the 33,898-award count even when a few capital-equipment vehicles dominate dollars. The packet does not publish that split. Researchers who need PSC or product-level detail must leave the NAICS hub and open award rows. SpendingVault’s industry page remains a USAspending.gov contract NAICS rollup: obligations, not outlays, residual manufacturing code 333318 only. Do not merge repair NAICS 8113 into this manufacturing total without documenting a recode. Spare-parts call-offs can thicken the 33,898-award file while a smaller set of capital vehicles still dominate dollars. The packet does not publish that split. Keep $4,872,842,849.79 on contract NAICS 333318. Repair codes in 8113 remain a different rollup. Named 3333 machinery lines stay outside $4,872,842,849.79 unless an award was itself tagged 333318.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated under NAICS 333318?

USAspending.gov contract aggregates on SpendingVault show $4,872,842,849.79 in obligations across 33,898 awards tagged other commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing. The number is obligations, not outlays. Assistance awards without NAICS are omitted. It is not an FEC employer total and not every 3333 machinery code combined.

Does 333318 include construction equipment manufacturing?

Census keeps construction machinery manufacturing on NAICS 333120. NAICS 333318 is a residual commercial and service-industry machinery class. An award tagged 333120 will not add to the $4,872,842,849.79 total. The 33,898 awards are the 333318 contract tag from USAspending.gov via SpendingVault.

Are these figures cash outlays?

No. They are obligations: legally binding commitments on contract actions. Outlays are payments and are not this $4,872,842,849.79 rollup. Modifications can change obligations without a same-day payment. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov contract NAICS for the 33,898 awards, not a Treasury outlay extract.

Why might a grant-funded equipment purchase be missing?

Assistance awards often lack a NAICS code. A grant that buys machinery will not add to the 33,898 contract awards or the $4,872,842,849.79 total. Open recipient pages for mixed contract and assistance activity. This industry page reports only contract actions tagged 333318 in USAspending.gov.