Federal obligations in home centers (NAICS 444110)

Retail home centers with 406,530 tagged actions

Federal facilities buy lumber, fasteners, paint, and related stock through home-center retailers classified in 444110. Tagged obligations sum to $701.5M on 406,530 awards—the densest action count in this slice. The harvest is not a SKU census and not a store count.

Hardware manufacturing (332510) and prefabricated metal building manufacturing (332311) are factory codes, not this retail NAICS. Computer and software stores (443120) are a different retailer. $701.5M follows the 444110 home-center tag. Packet facts are the dollar total and the 406,530 count.

A purchase-card-scale average near $1,700

Four hundred six thousand five hundred thirty awards against $701.5M averages about $1,700 per action. That pattern matches purchase-card and small-ticket retail far better than capital construction. 406,530 is not unique stores and not unique agencies.

The hub will be a long tail. A few large blanket purchases can still sit inside $701.5M; amount sort finds them among the hundreds of thousands of small tickets that define 406,530. Treat $1,700 as a divider, not a typical cart.

Purchase-card feeds create award rows that look like a census of trips to the store. $701.5M on 406,530 awards is that retail pattern under 444110. It is not a construction total. Factory NAICS codes for goods sold in those aisles remain separate extracts.

Retail versus manufacturing neighbors

444110 is home-center retail. Current-carrying wiring device manufacturing (335931) makes electrical devices; home centers may sell them. Dual-role vendors are uncommon here, but contracting officers can still mis-tag a manufacturer as a retailer. $701.5M stays with 444110 on 406,530 tagged actions.

Cite the extract as $701.5M in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 444110, home centers, on 406,530 awards. The packet has no fiscal year. Live tables can move; the harvested pair remains $701.5M and 406,530.

Small-ticket obligations

Retail actions often obligate at purchase and pay quickly. $701.5M is still committed value on 406,530 tagged actions, not a statement that every receipt is already an outlay. Returns and cancellations de-obligate. Outlay fields remain separate.

Keep $701.5M attached to 444110 as tagged. This overlay does not merge hardware manufacturing or prefab-building dollars into the home-center cell. The 406,530-row file is a retail pattern, not a construction NAICS.

Opening a very large award file

The home centers industry page lists the 406,530 awards behind $701.5M. The all-industries directory opens manufacturing and other retail codes without combining those totals here. Source: USAspending.gov contract awards.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside even when a grant buys similar hardware-store goods. Internal links on this file point only to the 444110 industry page and the all-industries directory.

406,530 awards under $701.5M is a retail purchase-card pattern. It is not a construction NAICS and not a factory NAICS. Hardware manufacturing and prefab metal buildings remain outside. SKU lists are not in the packet. Amount sort is how to find any large blanket purchases hiding in the long tail. Source: USAspending.gov; assistance may not carry NAICS.

Retail density versus factory codes for the same goods

A switch bought at a home center and a switch bought from a wiring-device manufacturer can be the same physical good with different NAICS tags. $701.5M on 406,530 awards is the 444110 retail tag. Hardware manufacturing (332510), wiring-device manufacturing (335931), and prefab metal buildings (332311) are factory codes. The about $1,700 average matches purchase-card tickets, not capital construction.

Four hundred six thousand five hundred thirty actions is not unique stores. Amount sort on the home centers industry page is how to find any large blanket purchases inside $701.5M among the long tail. SKU lists are not in the packet facts.

Cite $701.5M in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 444110, home centers, on 406,530 awards. Dollars are obligations, not outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. No fiscal year is in the packet. Internal links are the 444110 hub and the all-industries directory. Source: USAspending.gov contract awards.

Questions

How much federal contracting is coded to home centers?

NAICS 444110 shows $701.5M in obligations on 406,530 USAspending contract awards. That is home-center retail as tagged, not hardware manufacturing. The unit is obligations, not outlays or SKU counts. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 406,530-award extract behind $701.5M.

Why are there more than 400,000 awards?

Dividing $701.5M by 406,530 awards yields about $1,700 per action. Purchase-card and small retail tickets inflate count relative to capital-equipment NAICS codes. The count is not unique stores and not unique agencies. Sort the hub by amount to see any large blanket purchases versus the long tail of small tickets.

Does 444110 include hardware manufacturing?

No. Hardware manufacturing is NAICS 332510. Prefabricated metal building manufacturing is 332311. This page’s $701.5M is the 444110 retail tag on 406,530 awards. Keep factory codes on their own industry pages; do not add them into the home-center cell.

Are supply grants included in $701.5M?

Usually not. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they fall outside this 406,530-award contract extract. Use program pages for grants. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $701.5M obligated on 406,530 home centers awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field.