Federal obligations in analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (NAICS 334516)

Instrument manufacturing, not a testing-lab NAICS

NAICS 334516 covers establishments that manufacture analytical laboratory instruments. Federal catalog buys of chromatographs, mass specs, and similar tools can land here when the award is tagged as manufacturing. Testing laboratories (541380) that run samples, irradiation apparatus (334517), and other measuring devices (334519) sit on other codes. The $4,237,877,019.78 total is the analytical-instrument manufacturing tag, not “all lab spending.”

A university core facility that buys instruments under a grant will not add to this row if the instrument is assistance-funded. A contractor tagged 334516 on a supply contract will. SpendingVault reports the USAspending award tag, not an NIH core-lab census and not an FEC employer string such as “scientific.”

22,183 awards on a $4.24 billion obligation stock

Twenty-two thousand one hundred eighty-three awards produced $4,237,877,019.78 in obligations. That action count is thick for a manufacturing class: spare parts, consumable-adjacent instrument orders, and catalog delivery orders can stack. The packet does not split capital systems from accessories. The table shows tagged dollars and the 22,183-award count.

Obligations move with new awards, options, and modifications, including deobligations. Outlays are payments for delivered instruments and are not this $4,237,877,019.78 rollup. A catalog IDIQ can show a large commitment while invoices follow shipments. The industry page does not convert obligations into a delivery calendar.

Contract NAICS versus research grants

USAspending.gov stores NAICS on contract actions. NIH R01s, NSF grants, and many intramural equipment supplements are assistance and often have no NAICS field. Those dollars will not add to the 22,183 awards even when a spectrometer is the purchase. Open program pages for grant-funded instruments.

The label is a Census manufacturing classification. It is not a CAS registry, not a CLIA lab list, and not campaign-finance text. Cite USAspending.gov via SpendingVault for $4,237,877,019.78 and the 22,183-award count.

Reading the 334516 table

The hub lists recipients and awards that share this NAICS tag. A large obligation is a disclosed commitment. It is not a finding that an instrument failed calibration, that a method was invalid, or that a small business was excluded. SpendingVault does not score analytical performance from the dollar total.

Use award IDs, not the $4,237,877,019.78 headline, to separate two manufacturers. Service contracts tagged as repair (8112) may be missing from this manufacturing row. UEI and name changes are ordinary in the file.

Neighboring 3345 and 5413 codes

Irradiation apparatus (334517), other measuring devices (334519), and testing laboratories (541380) are separate pages. Adding them to $4,237,877,019.78 would mix imaging hardware, residual instruments, and sample-testing services with analytical-instrument manufacturing. That recode is not this page.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside the 22,183-award count. For a manufacturer that also holds research grants, open the recipient record. This guide stays on contract NAICS 334516 from USAspending.gov. Keep obligations distinct from outlays.

Catalog parts versus capital spectrometers

A high 22,183-award count often means many small catalog actions against a few instrument vehicles, not 22,183 factories. The packet does not publish that split. A service contract tagged 811210 electronic repair will not raise this manufacturing total. A spare-parts order tagged 334516 still sits in $4,237,877,019.78. SpendingVault does not reclassify the vendor’s repair NAICS into this row.

Searchers who want “all federal lab capability” must add testing-lab services, other 3345 manufacturing lines, and assistance grants, and will still miss intramural purchases that never hit USAspending as contracts. This page does not perform that recode. Cite contract NAICS 334516 only. Do not treat the row as an FEC occupation called scientist. The $4,237,877,019.78 figure remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov. Modifications that cancel a catalog line will lower the running total without publishing a utilization rate on this hub. Open award rows for model-level descriptions. Neighboring 3345 lines stay on their own pages unless those awards were tagged 334516. Keep 541380 testing laboratories on a services page, not this manufacturing rollup. A spare-parts order tagged 334516 still sits in $4,237,877,019.78; a sample-testing contract tagged 541380 does not. The 22,183 awards remain an action count, not a factory census. Keep 334517 irradiation apparatus on its own page. Cite USAspending.gov contract NAICS 334516 only.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated under NAICS 334516?

USAspending.gov contract aggregates on SpendingVault show $4,237,877,019.78 in obligations across 22,183 awards tagged analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing. The number is obligations, not outlays. Assistance research awards without NAICS are omitted. It is not testing-lab services, not irradiation apparatus, and not an FEC “scientific” string.

Does this include laboratory testing services?

Testing laboratories and services are NAICS 541380. Those awards will not add to the $4,237,877,019.78 total unless tagged 334516. The 22,183 awards are the analytical-instrument manufacturing contract tag from USAspending.gov via SpendingVault. Adding 541380 is a recode you must document.

Why are there 22,183 awards on a $4.24 billion total?

The packet reports 22,183 awards and $4,237,877,019.78 in obligations. Catalog parts and delivery orders can thicken a manufacturing file. The data do not split capital systems from accessories or count unique factories. A high action count is a characteristic of this NAICS tag, not a plant census. Outlays remain a different field.

Are NIH equipment grants in this total?

Those streams are often assistance awards. Assistance often has no NAICS, so it does not add to the 22,183 contract awards or $4,237,877,019.78. Open program or recipient pages for grant-funded instruments. This industry page reports only contract actions tagged 334516 in USAspending.gov.