NAICS 443120 computer and software stores obligations

A retail store tag on federal contracts

NAICS 443120 is computer and software stores. Contracting officers assign it when the principal source is a retail computer or software store as the Census class groups that trade. This $1,456,458,844.52 is that retail tag. It is not a count of licenses deployed, not a software-publisher royalty, and not NAICS 334111 electronic computer manufacturing.

Four thousand sixteen awards produced a mean of about $363,000. Federal store-channel buys can mix hardware, packaged software, and related retail fulfillment, which sits between a single workstation order and a large schedule buy. The packet does not count seats, SKUs, or store locations.

Software publishers (513210 in current Census numbering on some extracts) create and license software; computer stores retail it. A publisher-direct license tagged to a publisher NAICS does not sit in $1.5 billion under 443120. Those 4,016 awards are the store-channel book as tagged, not a count of retail locations.

Retail NAICS on a contract book

A retail NAICS on a federal award means the officer selected the store class as principal, not that every dollar passed through a storefront. Dividing $1,456,458,844.52 by 4,016 awards is a mean obligation per award identifier, not a shelf price.

Store-channel contracts often obligate estimated catalog value and pay as orders ship. Unused options leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $1.5 billion as equipment already installed would overstate cash.

What this total excludes

Assistance that funds school computer labs often lacks NAICS and does not enter $1,456,458,844.52. In-house agency IT shops are not 443120 contracts. Electronic computer manufacturing and custom programming are separate classes.

Merchant wholesalers of computers tagged to a 423 wholesale NAICS follow a wholesale class, not this retail store class. Mixed wholesale-and-retail vendors follow the principal NAICS the officer selected. Packaged software, workstations, and related retail fulfillment can share 443120 when that is the principal class. The $1,456,458,844.52 total does not split SKUs across the 4,016 awards.

How to use the 443120 hub

Read $1.5 billion and 4,016 awards as the computer-and-software-store tag, then open the computer and software stores industry page for award-level fields. Rank retail and IT-related codes on the all-industries index without converting this store class into a publisher or manufacturer total.

This guide does not add license-seat counts because they are not in the facts object. Custom programming tagged to a 5415 computer-systems class is not this store book. Quote obligations, not seats deployed, and keep publisher royalties out because publishing is a different NAICS family.

Classification limits

Computer and software stores are not software publishers and not computer manufacturers. SpendingVault reports the tagged 443120 sum.

Extract updates will move $1,456,458,844.52 and 4,016 with USAspending.

A retail NAICS on a federal award book

Four thousand sixteen awards at $1,456,458,844.52 produce a mean of about $363,000. A retail store class on a federal contract means the officer selected that Census trade as principal, not that every dollar rang up at a storefront. Catalog and schedule buys can still carry 443120. The mean is not a shelf price and not a license-seat price. Software publishers and electronic computer manufacturers are different classes; publisher-direct or factory-direct tags do not sit in this $1.5 billion.

Wholesale computer merchants tagged to a 423 class follow wholesale, not retail. Assistance that funds school computer labs often omits NAICS and stays outside $1,456,458,844.52. In-house agency IT shops are not 443120 contracts. Open the computer and software stores industry page for award-level fields. Rank retail and IT-related codes on the all-industries index. Cite USAspending.gov. Unused catalog options mean obligated store-channel dollars can exceed equipment already installed. A searcher asking how much the federal government spent on computers should still separate the retail store class from publishers and from manufacturers. The $1,456,458,844.52 figure answers the NAICS 443120 question only. The 4,016-award count answers how many award identifiers carried that tag, not how many seats were deployed. Open the computer and software stores industry page, then compare related retail and IT codes on the all-industries index. Keep the language to obligations recorded in USAspending.gov, and do not convert the mean of about $363,000 into a shelf price.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 443120?

Computer and software stores contracts in USAspending show $1,456,458,844.52 in obligations across 4,016 awards. That is a retail-store tag, not software publishing and not computer manufacturing. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without a NAICS code is excluded from this industry extract.

What is the average computer-store award?

Dividing $1,456,458,844.52 by 4,016 awards yields about $363,000. That mean mixes catalog hardware and packaged software in this extract. It is not a price per seat and not a shelf SKU price. The packet does not publish a median or a count of licenses deployed.

Does this include software publishers?

Only contract actions tagged 443120. Software publishers are a separate NAICS class. Mixed retail-and-publisher buys follow the principal code the officer selected. This $1.5 billion is the store tag. Use publisher hubs for publisher classes instead of this retail code.

Are these dollars already paid to stores?

No. USAspending reports obligations on this hub, not outlays. Open catalog orders and unused options can leave balances unliquidated after the award posts. The 4,016-award count is not a proof of equipment installed. Cite USAspending.gov for the tagged extract on SpendingVault.