Federal obligations in power, distribution, and specialty transformer manufacturing (NAICS 335311)

Transformer manufacturing at $816.8 million

Federal facilities, utilities programs, and industrial sites buy power, distribution, and specialty transformers from manufacturers classified in 335311. Tagged obligations sum to $816,837,944.18. That is not a megavolt-ampere census. Nameplate ratings are not in the packet facts.

Other electric power generation (221118) is a utility-generation residual. Electrical apparatus merchant wholesalers (423610) distribute electrical goods. 335311 is the manufacturing of transformers. The $816,837,944.18 follows that manufacturing tag on 8,157 awards.

8,157 awards: equipment plus replacement units

Eight thousand one hundred fifty-seven awards against $816,837,944.18 averages about $100,000 per action. That mix typically includes complete transformers and related specialty units plus smaller replacement orders. Delivery orders add count. 8,157 is not 8,157 unique plants.

The industry hub is the place to separate large substation lots from the long tail inside $816,837,944.18. This guide cites only the packet pair and will not invent a kVA split.

Manufacturer versus wholesaler versus generator

A transformer OEM should be 335311. A wholesaler of electrical apparatus should be 423610. A generation residual should be 221118. Dual-role firms can be tagged either way. The $816,837,944.18 is 335311 as recorded on 8,157 actions.

Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. Grid-modernization grants to utilities will usually miss this manufacturing rollup even when they fund similar hardware. Program pages cover those streams.

A complete citation of this industry is $816,837,944.18 in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 335311, power, distribution, and specialty transformer manufacturing, on 8,157 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 $816,837,944.18 and 8,157.

Obligations on long-lead electrical equipment

Transformer contracts often obligate a production slot and pay on delivery and test. The $816,837,944.18 is committed value on 8,157 tagged actions, not cash already paid at energization. Cancellations de-obligate. Outlay fields track payments.

Classification errors are expected at the margin. Vendors that straddle electrical wholesalers, electric generation, and wiring contractors may land in 335311 on some actions and in a neighbor on others. Electrical apparatus wholesalers (423610) distribute; 335311 manufactures transformers. The public-record stance is to keep $816,837,944.18 attached to 335311 as tagged, then scan the 8,157 rows for large power-transformer lots versus specialty and replacement units. Re-tagging the extract by hand is out of scope for this overlay.

Hub navigation

Open the power, distribution, and specialty transformer manufacturing industry page for the 8,157 awards behind $816,837,944.18. Use the all-industries directory for electrical wholesalers and other electric generation without merging their dollars into this transformer total. Source: USAspending.gov contract awards.

Transformer OEMs are not electrical wholesalers

Award count interprets the buying pattern. 8,157 actions producing $816,837,944.18 is thousands of transformer OEM orders including replacements, with about $100,000 per action as the simple average. That average hides mix: modifications, options, and delivery orders all increment count. 8,157 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 $816,837,944.18 across 8,157 tagged power, distribution, and specialty transformer 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 power, distribution, and specialty transformer 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 $816,837,944.18, 8,157, the obligation unit, and the boundary around electrical wholesalers, electric generation, and wiring contractors.

Questions

How much federal contracting is coded to transformer manufacturing?

NAICS 335311 shows $816,837,944.18 in obligations on 8,157 USAspending contract awards. That is power, distribution, and specialty transformer manufacturing as tagged, not wholesale electrical supply. The unit is obligations, not outlays or kVA. Quote it as USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 335311, not as cash outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 8,157-award extract behind $816,837,944.18.

Does 335311 include electrical wholesalers?

No. Merchant wholesalers are NAICS 423610. This page’s $816,837,944.18 is transformer manufacturing on 8,157 tagged awards. Open the wholesale code separately. Electrical apparatus wholesalers (423610) distribute; 335311 manufactures transformers. Keep $816,837,944.18 attached to 335311 as tagged on 8,157 actions; do not merge neighbor codes into the same unlabeled cell.

Is electric power generation part of this total?

No. Other electric power generation is NAICS 221118. This page follows the 335311 transformer-manufacturing tag. Generation and transformer hardware are different industries. That pattern is thousands of transformer OEM orders including replacements, with about $100,000 per action as the simple average of $816,837,944.18 over 8,157 awards. Scan the 8,157 rows for large power-transformer lots versus specialty and replacement units.

Are grid grants included in the $817 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: $816,837,944.18 obligated on 8,157 power, distribution, and specialty transformer manufacturing awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field; assistance without NAICS is a different award type.