Refrigerated warehousing and storage (NAICS 493120) contract obligations

One hundred thirty-five awards hold $2.21 billion

Dividing $2,208,395,574.06 by 135 produces about $16.4 million per award. That concentrated book is unlike general warehousing codes that can show many more small orders. Refrigerated storage here looks like a short list of large vehicles. The packet does not name warehouses. It supports the obligation sum and the 135-award count.

General warehousing and storage (493110) and other warehousing (493190) appear as neighbors in this extract. Ambient and refrigerated space are easy to mix on a logistics statement of work; they are separate NAICS tags when the awarding office used different codes. Only 493120 feeds this $2.21 billion.

Storage-contract obligations versus commodity inventories

USAspending.gov records what the government committed to pay for awards tagged refrigerated warehousing. It does not record the value of food sitting in those rooms. Citing $2,208,395,574.06 as a cheese or meat stockpile is incorrect. The dollars are contractor commitments for cold-storage services or related work as classified.

Assistance that funds food banks may lack NAICS. Those grants would not increment this industry total. Keep 493120 on the contract hub.

What 135 does not count

The 135 awards include modifications that keep the code. They are not 135 cold-storage plants. One multi-site storage vehicle can generate several of those rows. Negative modifications reduce the net without meaning that a freezer was emptied.

Obligations versus storage invoices

A warehousing contract can be obligated for a performance period while monthly storage invoices follow. Outlays are not in the packet. Option years can add rows to the 135 while the $2.21 billion moves with each signed action.

Using the refrigerated-warehousing hub

The Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage industry page lists the USAspending.gov actions behind $2.21 billion. Recipients and agencies belong there. Compare 493120 with general and other warehousing on the all-industries index.

Citing 493120 without converting it into a stockpile

Quote $2,208,395,574.06 as USAspending contract obligations on 135 awards tagged NAICS 493120. Do not describe that number as the value of commodities in cold storage. Storage codes record contractor commitments, not USDA inventory ledgers.

Because 135 is a small denominator, one large vehicle can dominate. That concentration is arithmetic. Warehouse refreshes can move both dollars and the count. Recoding a storage award to general warehousing 493110 would send new actions off this page.

Food-manufacturing NAICS (bakeries, poultry, cheese) are suppliers, not automatically this storage code. Their dollars are not inside $2.21 billion unless the award also carried 493120.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside. Quote USAspending.gov, quote obligations, quote 135 awards, and open the hub for recipients. Stop before treating refrigerated warehousing as energy or dietary advice.

Readers quoting this industry should keep two packet facts in one sentence: $2,208,395,574 in USAspending.gov contract obligations and 135 awards tagged NAICS 493120 (REFRIGERATED WAREHOUSING AND STORAGE). Dropping either figure hides whether the book is a few large vehicles or many small orders. The rounded obligation used for citation is $2,208,395,574; cents on the source total, if any, do not change the industry identity of the code.

REFRIGERATED WAREHOUSING AND STORAGE shows a small award-record count (135). A handful of vehicles can dominate the obligation stock. Do not read that shape as a completeness claim or as a vendor census. Warehousing and courier codes record tagged logistics contracts, not cubic feet occupied and not parcels scanned. REFRIGERATED WAREHOUSING AND STORAGE is procurement, not an inventory ledger. Record corrections in the USAspending.gov warehouse can move both the $2,208,395,574 and the 135-award count. Treat the live REFRIGERATED WAREHOUSING AND STORAGE industry page as current and this file as a reading of the harvested packet.

Internal comparison belongs on the all-industries index, where NAICS 493120 sits beside other six-digit contract totals. Adding neighboring codes by hand creates a new total this packet does not contain; cite each NAICS if you add. Assistance awards that omit NAICS remain outside $2,208,395,574. Outlays remain unpublished here. Quote obligations, quote 135 awards, cite USAspending.gov, and open the overlay hub for recipients rather than inventing agencies, fiscal years, or unit counts the packet does not list.

A second check on language: do not call $2,208,395,574 an appropriation, a budget request, or cash disbursed. It is the recorded contract-obligation stock for REFRIGERATED WAREHOUSING AND STORAGE (NAICS 493120) in the indexed USAspending.gov extract. Do not call 135 a count of establishments. It is an award-record count. Those two constraints are the whole method of this guide.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 493120 refrigerated warehousing?

USAspending.gov contract awards tagged Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage show $2,208,395,574.06 in obligations on 135 awards. That is a procurement commitment total, not the value of goods in storage and not outlays. USAspending.gov is the source for the $2,208,395,574 obligation stock and the 135 contract awards tagged REFRIGERATED WAREHOUSING AND STORAGE (NAICS 493120). Assistance awards that omit NAICS are outside both figures.

Why are there only 135 awards?

The indexed file contains 135 contract actions with this NAICS, including modifications that keep the code. Cold-storage work may sit on a small number of large vehicles. 135 is an award-record count, not 135 buildings. Keep the citation on contract obligations: $2,208,395,574 on 135 awards coded NAICS 493120. Outlays, grants without NAICS, and unit counts are not in the packet that produced this page.

Is this the same as general warehousing?

No. General warehousing uses NAICS 493110 when tagged that way. Only awards reported as 493120 feed the $2,208,395,574.06. Compare both hubs on the all-industries index. The industry hub lists the underlying USAspending.gov rows. This answer restates only packet facts: NAICS 493120, $2,208,395,574 obligated, and 135 awards for REFRIGERATED WAREHOUSING AND STORAGE.

Are food-bank grants included?

Assistance awards often lack NAICS, so they are omitted from this rollup. The $2,208,395,574.06 and 135 awards are the contract slice tagged 493120. Do not treat 135 as establishments or $2,208,395,574 as cash disbursed. Both numbers describe USAspending.gov contract actions tagged NAICS 493120 (REFRIGERATED WAREHOUSING AND STORAGE), not assistance and not outlays.