Federal obligations in HVAC and refrigeration equipment manufacturing (NAICS 333415)

HVAC and refrigeration manufacturing at $849.7 million

Federal facilities buy chillers, warm-air furnaces, commercial refrigeration, and related equipment from manufacturers classified in 333415. Tagged obligations sum to $849,694,811.73. That is not a tonnage of cooling and not a count of rooftop units. Physical capacities are not in the packet facts.

The Census title is long because the code covers both comfort HVAC equipment and commercial/industrial refrigeration equipment. A walk-in freezer manufacturer and a packaged air-conditioner manufacturer can share 333415. Award descriptions on the industry hub distinguish those rows inside the $849,694,811.73.

6,121 awards: equipment plus parts

Six thousand one hundred twenty-one awards against $849,694,811.73 averages about $139,000 per action. That mix usually includes complete units and replacement components. Delivery orders add count. 6,121 is not 6,121 unique factories.

Electrical apparatus merchant wholesalers (423610) distribute electrical goods, including some HVAC-related parts, under a trade NAICS. 333415 is manufacturing. Do not add the two and call the sum unique HVAC dollars without checking that awards are distinct.

Manufacturer versus installer

An HVAC contractor who installs equipment uses a construction or specialty-trade NAICS. A manufacturer of the equipment uses 333415. Design-build packages can be tagged either way depending on the prime’s industry. The $849,694,811.73 follows the 333415 manufacturing tag on 6,121 actions as recorded.

Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. Weatherization and state energy-program grants will usually miss this manufacturing rollup even when they fund similar hardware.

A complete citation of this industry is $849,694,811.73 in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 333415, HVAC and commercial refrigeration equipment manufacturing, on 6,121 awards. Anything less—dropping the NAICS, dropping the word obligations, or dropping the contract-only universe—overstates what the extract contains. The packet facts do not include a fiscal year, so this guide does not invent one. Live tables on the industry hub can move when USAspending posts modifications; the harvested pair remains $849,694,811.73 and 6,121.

Obligations on equipment lots

HVAC equipment contracts often obligate a lot or a schedule call and pay on delivery and startup. The $849,694,811.73 is committed value on 6,121 tagged actions, not cash already paid at commissioning. Cancelled line items de-obligate. Outlay fields track payments.

Classification errors are expected at the margin. Vendors that straddle HVAC installers, electrical wholesalers, and weatherization grants may land in 333415 on some actions and in a neighbor on others. Electrical wholesalers (423610) distribute; 333415 manufactures HVAC and refrigeration equipment. The public-record stance is to keep $849,694,811.73 attached to 333415 as tagged, then split the 6,121 rows between complete units and replacement components where descriptions allow. Re-tagging the extract by hand is out of scope for this overlay.

Hub next step

Open the HVAC and refrigeration equipment manufacturing industry page for the 6,121 awards behind $849,694,811.73. Use the all-industries directory for electrical wholesalers without merging totals. Source: USAspending.gov contract awards. No fiscal year is in the packet.

HVAC manufacturing is not installation contracting

Award count interprets the buying pattern. 6,121 actions producing $849,694,811.73 is thousands of equipment and parts manufacturing orders, with about $139,000 per action as the simple average. That average hides mix: modifications, options, and delivery orders all increment count. 6,121 is not a count of unique companies and not a count of physical units. Use the hub amount sort to see whether a few large rows plus a long tail make up most of the tagged total.

Outlays remain a separate USAspending concept. An agency can obligate $849,694,811.73 across 6,121 tagged HVAC and commercial refrigeration equipment manufacturing actions and pay on a different calendar. De-obligations after cancellations reduce the obligation ledger; they do not rewrite the fact that this NAICS has been a large tagged category in the harvest. Assistance without NAICS still sits outside even when the real-world activity looks similar. Program pages answer the grant question; this page answers the tagged-contract question.

Internal links on this file point only to the HVAC and commercial refrigeration equipment manufacturing industry page and the all-industries directory. Those are the packet hrefs. Neighboring industry codes mentioned in prose are classification context only. Source note, copied from the packet: NAICS from USAspending contract awards. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. The overlay’s job is to state $849,694,811.73, 6,121, the obligation unit, and the boundary around HVAC installers, electrical wholesalers, and weatherization grants.

Questions

How much federal contract spending is coded to HVAC and refrigeration manufacturing?

NAICS 333415 shows $849,694,811.73 in obligations on 6,121 USAspending contract awards. That is manufacturing of air-conditioning, warm-air heating, and commercial/industrial refrigeration equipment as tagged, not installation contracting. The unit is obligations, not outlays. Quote it as USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 333415, not as cash outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 6,121-award extract behind $849,694,811.73.

Does 333415 include HVAC installation contractors?

Not by design. Installers use construction or trade NAICS. This page’s $849,694,811.73 follows the manufacturing tag on 6,121 awards. Award descriptions on the hub are the check for mixed design-build actions. Electrical wholesalers (423610) distribute; 333415 manufactures HVAC and refrigeration equipment. Keep $849,694,811.73 attached to 333415 as tagged on 6,121 actions; do not merge neighbor codes into the same unlabeled cell.

Is electrical wholesale included?

No. Electrical apparatus merchant wholesalers are NAICS 423610. This page’s $849,694,811.73 is 333415 manufacturing only. Open the wholesale code separately. That pattern is thousands of equipment and parts manufacturing orders, with about $139,000 per action as the simple average of $849,694,811.73 over 6,121 awards. Split the 6,121 rows between complete units and replacement components where descriptions allow.

Are energy-efficiency grants in this $850 million?

Usually not. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they fall outside this contract extract. Use program pages for grants. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $849,694,811.73 obligated on 6,121 HVAC and commercial refrigeration equipment manufacturing awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field; assistance without NAICS is a different award type.