Software publishers (NAICS 513210) in federal contract obligations

Eight thousand awards on a product-software code

The $2,600,360,904.75 obligation stock sits on 8,445 contract awards. That pairing implies about $307,900 per award, a mid-scale average that can hide both enterprise license vehicles and small software orders. The packet does not split those shapes. It supplies only the sum and the count.

Software Publishers is not the same Census line as custom computer programming or computer systems design. Those services codes, when used, sit on their own industry pages. If a contracting office tagged a development contract 513210, it still feeds this total; the table follows the reported NAICS, not a reader’s guess about the statement of work.

Obligations, not seats and not invoices

USAspending.gov records obligations: amounts the government committed on the action. Software contracts often use options, enterprise agreements, and delivery orders. Each of those actions can add to $2,600,360,904.75. Outlays—the invoices paid against licenses—are a later column this packet does not contain.

Assistance awards frequently omit NAICS. A grant that funded software research would not increment this industry total unless it were a contract tagged 513210. Keep program pages and this NAICS hub on separate ledgers.

What 8,445 does not count

The award count includes modifications that keep 513210. It is not 8,445 unique publishers and not 8,445 software titles. One IDIQ can generate many of the 8,445 rows. Negative modifications reduce the obligation net without erasing the earlier positive actions from history.

Reading the software-publishers hub

The Software Publishers industry page lists the USAspending.gov rows behind $2.60 billion. Recipients and awarding agencies belong there. The all-industries index places 513210 next to other information and professional-services codes so the dollars can be compared without treating them as spent cash.

Limits of the packet

No fiscal-year split, cloud-versus-on-premise flag, or set-aside field is in the packet. The citable facts are NAICS 513210, the industry name, $2,600,360,904.75, and 8,445 awards. Older NAICS 511210 is a different code string; this page follows 513210 as harvested.

Citing software-publisher obligations without mixing IT services

Quote $2,600,360,904.75 as USAspending contract obligations on 8,445 awards tagged NAICS 513210. Do not fold in custom programming, systems design, or data-processing NAICS unless those awards also carry 513210. Packaged software and labor-hour development are easy to confuse on a performance work statement; the industry table follows the code on the award.

Readers sometimes treat publisher dollars as a software inventory. The $2.60 billion is a contract-obligation stock, not a catalog of titles and not a count of end-user seats. Option years can raise the recorded commitment before invoices catch up. Keep outlays out of the sentence.

The 8,445 awards are procurement records. A vendor with many delivery orders can dominate the count without appearing in this guide by name. If a later modification recodes the work to 541511 or 541512, dollars can leave 513210. Those movements show on the live hub, not in this static file.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside. Budget exhibits that list “IT” as a budget object class are a different layer. Quote USAspending.gov, quote obligations, quote 8,445 awards, and open the industry page for recipients. Do not convert the Census title into a ranking of commercial software firms.

Readers quoting this industry should keep two packet facts in one sentence: $2,600,360,905 in USAspending.gov contract obligations and 8,445 awards tagged NAICS 513210 (SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS). Dropping either figure hides whether the book is a few large vehicles or many small orders. The rounded obligation used for citation is $2,600,360,905; cents on the source total, if any, do not change the industry identity of the code.

SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS shows 8,445 award records, enough to include recurring orders without resembling a micro-purchase flood. Modifications that keep the code are inside the count. Publishing and information codes record tagged contract commitments, not circulation, seats, or titles in print. SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS is the residual or product tag as reported. Record corrections in the USAspending.gov warehouse can move both the $2,600,360,905 and the 8,445-award count. Treat the live SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS industry page as current and this file as a reading of the harvested packet.

Internal comparison belongs on the all-industries index, where NAICS 513210 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 $2,600,360,905. Outlays remain unpublished here. Quote obligations, quote 8,445 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.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 513210 software publishers?

USAspending.gov contract awards tagged Software Publishers show $2,600,360,904.75 in obligations on 8,445 awards. That total is obligations, not outlays and not a count of software licenses issued. USAspending.gov is the source for the $2,600,360,905 obligation stock and the 8,445 contract awards tagged SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS (NAICS 513210). Assistance awards that omit NAICS are outside both figures.

Is software publishing the same as custom programming?

No. NAICS 513210 is the publisher/product code as reported on the award. Custom programming and systems design use other NAICS lines when tagged that way and are not inside the $2,600,360,904.75 unless they also carry 513210. Keep the citation on contract obligations: $2,600,360,905 on 8,445 awards coded NAICS 513210. Outlays, grants without NAICS, and unit counts are not in the packet that produced this page.

Do the 8,445 awards equal 8,445 software companies?

No. The 8,445 figure counts contract records tagged 513210, including orders and modifications. One publisher can generate many awards. The industry page lists the records behind the count. The industry hub lists the underlying USAspending.gov rows. This answer restates only packet facts: NAICS 513210, $2,600,360,905 obligated, and 8,445 awards for SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS.

Are software grants included?

Assistance awards often lack NAICS, so they are omitted from this rollup. Only contract actions tagged 513210 feed the $2,600,360,904.75 and the 8,445-award count. Do not treat 8,445 as establishments or $2,600,360,905 as cash disbursed. Both numbers describe USAspending.gov contract actions tagged NAICS 513210 (SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS), not assistance and not outlays.