Federal obligations in special needs transportation (NAICS 485991)

Passenger special-needs transit at $779.7M

Federal and federally contracted programs buy specialized passenger transportation for riders who need accessible or demand-response service. USAspending tags $779.7M of contract obligations to NAICS 485991 on 640 awards. The total is not a rider count and not a trip log.

Ambulance services (621910) are medical transport under a health code. Freight transportation arrangement (488510) is cargo brokerage. $779.7M follows the 485991 passenger tag. Packet facts are the dollar total and the 640 count. Vehicle fleets and route maps are not in the harvest.

640 awards and a large-vehicle average

Six hundred forty awards against $779.7M averages about $1.2M per action. That size fits multi-year paratransit and special-needs contracts better than a single-trip voucher. Task orders still increment 640, so the count is not unique operators and not unique riders.

With only 640 actions carrying $779.7M, concentration is expected. Amount sort on the industry hub will likely show a few large transit vehicles plus a shorter tail. The simple average is a divider, not a typical one-day invoice.

A 640-award file is small enough that a handful of vehicles can drive most of $779.7M. That is why amount sort on the hub is not optional for this NAICS. Ambulance tagging errors would show up as 621910 neighbors, not as an adjustment to this extract. Trip counts remain out of scope.

Special-needs transit versus medical and freight codes

485991 is passenger special-needs transportation. Kidney dialysis centers (621492) and other health-practitioner offices may buy trips but are not this transit NAICS. Dual-role vendors can be tagged as ambulance (621910) on some actions and 485991 on others. $779.7M stays with 485991 on 640 tagged awards.

Cite the extract as $779.7M in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 485991, special needs transportation, on 640 awards. No fiscal year is in the packet. Live tables can move; the harvested pair remains $779.7M and 640.

Obligations on transit vehicles

Transit contracts often obligate a service year and pay on billed trips. $779.7M is committed value on 640 tagged actions, not every passenger mile already paid. Cancellations de-obligate. Outlays track payments separately.

Mis-tags occur at the ambulance boundary. Keep $779.7M on 485991 as recorded, then read the 640 descriptions. This overlay does not fold freight-arrangement or ambulance dollars into the special-needs passenger cell.

Where the 640 rows live

The special needs transportation industry page lists the 640 awards behind $779.7M. The all-industries directory opens ambulance, freight, and other transit codes without merging those obligations here. Source: USAspending.gov contract awards.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside even when a transit grant funds similar trips. Internal links on this file are only the 485991 hub and the industry directory.

Paratransit contracts are passenger service. They are not ambulances and not freight. $779.7M on 640 awards is a concentrated 485991 file with an about $1.2M simple average. Rider counts and trip logs would require a different dataset. Assistance transit grants usually miss this contract extract because they may not carry NAICS. Source: USAspending.gov.

Passenger special-needs files versus ambulance files

Demand-response passenger service and emergency medical transport can share vehicles and still require different NAICS tags. $779.7M on 640 awards is the 485991 passenger special-needs tag. Ambulance services (621910) stay in the health sector. Freight arrangement (488510) is cargo. Trip logs and rider counts are not in the packet.

The about $1.2M average on only 640 actions signals a concentrated file. Amount sort on the special needs transportation industry page will likely show a few large paratransit vehicles plus a shorter tail. Task orders still increment 640 without incrementing unique operators.

Quote $779.7M in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 485991, special needs transportation, on 640 awards. Dollars are obligations, not outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so transit grants usually miss this contract extract. No fiscal year is in the packet. Internal links are the 485991 hub and the all-industries directory. Source: USAspending.gov.

Questions

How much federal contracting is coded to special needs transportation?

NAICS 485991 shows $779.7M in obligations on 640 USAspending contract awards. That is special-needs passenger transit as tagged, not ambulances or freight brokers. The unit is obligations, not outlays or trip counts. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 640-award extract behind $779.7M.

Does 485991 include ambulance services?

No. Ambulance services are NAICS 621910. Freight transportation arrangement is 488510. This page’s $779.7M is the 485991 passenger special-needs tag on 640 awards. Keep medical-transport and cargo-broker codes on their own industry pages, not in this unlabeled cell.

Why is the average award about $1.2 million?

Dividing $779.7M by 640 awards yields about $1.2M per action. That fits multi-year paratransit contracts, but task orders also increment count. It is not unique operators and not unique riders. Sort the hub by amount to see whether a few large rows drive most of the tagged total.

Are transit grants included in $779.7M?

Usually not. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they fall outside this 640-award contract extract. Use program pages for grants. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $779.7M obligated on 640 special needs transportation awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field.