Federal obligations in computer terminal and other computer peripheral equipment manufacturing (NAICS 334118)

Peripheral hardware manufacturing at $822.4 million

Federal offices and facilities buy terminals, printers, and other computer peripherals from manufacturers classified in 334118. Tagged obligations sum to $822,426,865.97. That is not a count of devices issued. Unit counts are not in the packet facts.

Electronic computer manufacturing (complete computers) is a different NAICS. 334118 is terminals and other peripherals. A laptop buy tagged to computer manufacturing should not land here; a terminal or peripheral buy tagged to 334118 should. The $822,426,865.97 follows the 334118 tag on 2,881 actions.

2,881 awards and a hardware-order average

Two thousand eight hundred eighty-one awards against $822,426,865.97 averages about $285,000 per action. That is larger than electrical-wholesale catalog averages and smaller than concentrated finance codes. Schedule delivery orders add count. The industry hub shows the mix behind $822,426,865.97.

Computer training (611420) is instruction, not hardware. Process instruments (334513) are industrial measurement devices, not computer peripherals. Keep those three 33/61 codes in separate cells despite overlapping “equipment” language.

Manufacturer versus reseller

334118 is manufacturing. A value-added reseller classified as a merchant wholesaler uses a trade NAICS. Dual-role firms can be tagged either way. The $822,426,865.97 is 334118 as recorded on 2,881 awards, not a census of every monitor on a federal desk.

Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. An education grant that buys classroom peripherals will usually miss this manufacturing rollup.

A complete citation of this industry is $822,426,865.97 in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 334118, computer terminal and other computer peripheral equipment manufacturing, on 2,881 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 $822,426,865.97 and 2,881.

Obligations on hardware lots

Peripheral orders obligate when placed and pay on delivery. The $822,426,865.97 is committed value on 2,881 tagged actions, not cash already paid for every device. Returns de-obligate. Outlay fields track payments.

Classification errors are expected at the margin. Vendors that straddle computer training, process instruments, and complete-computer manufacturing may land in 334118 on some actions and in a neighbor on others. Process instruments (334513) measure industrial variables; 334118 is computer peripherals. The public-record stance is to keep $822,426,865.97 attached to 334118 as tagged, then use the 2,881 descriptions to separate terminals and printers from mixed electronics. Re-tagging the extract by hand is out of scope for this overlay.

Hub navigation

Open the computer terminal and other computer peripheral equipment manufacturing industry page for the 2,881 awards behind $822,426,865.97. Use the all-industries directory for computer training and process instruments without merging their dollars into this peripheral total. Source: USAspending.gov contract awards.

Peripherals are not process instruments or training

Award count interprets the buying pattern. 2,881 actions producing $822,426,865.97 is thousands of peripheral-hardware manufacturing orders, with about $285,000 per action as the simple average. That average hides mix: modifications, options, and delivery orders all increment count. 2,881 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 $822,426,865.97 across 2,881 tagged computer terminal and other computer peripheral 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 computer terminal and other computer peripheral 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 $822,426,865.97, 2,881, the obligation unit, and the boundary around computer training, process instruments, and complete-computer manufacturing.

Questions

How much federal contracting is coded to computer peripheral manufacturing?

NAICS 334118 shows $822,426,865.97 in obligations on 2,881 USAspending contract awards. That is computer terminals and other peripherals as tagged, not complete computers and not training. The unit is obligations, not outlays or device counts. Quote it as USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 334118, not as cash outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 2,881-award extract behind $822,426,865.97.

Does 334118 include computer training?

No. Computer training is NAICS 611420. This page’s $822,426,865.97 is peripheral manufacturing on 2,881 tagged awards. Open the training code separately. Process instruments (334513) measure industrial variables; 334118 is computer peripherals. Keep $822,426,865.97 attached to 334118 as tagged on 2,881 actions; do not merge neighbor codes into the same unlabeled cell.

Is this the same as industrial process instruments?

No. Process-variable instruments are NAICS 334513. This page follows the 334118 computer-peripheral tag. Award descriptions on the hub are the check for mixed electronics actions. That pattern is thousands of peripheral-hardware manufacturing orders, with about $285,000 per action as the simple average of $822,426,865.97 over 2,881 awards. Use the 2,881 descriptions to separate terminals and printers from mixed electronics.

Are school-technology grants included?

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: $822,426,865.97 obligated on 2,881 computer terminal and other computer peripheral equipment manufacturing awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field; assistance without NAICS is a different award type.