NAICS 541370 surveying and mapping except geophysical services obligations

Cadastral and cartographic work, not seismic crews

NAICS 541370 is surveying and mapping except geophysical services. Contracting officers assign it when the principal purpose is land surveying, cartography, and related mapping that the Census class groups — not geophysical exploration. This $1,559,375,542.90 is that professional-services tag. It is not a count of acres patented, not a GIS license inventory, and not a geophysical-survey NAICS.

Two thousand three hundred forty-three awards produced a mean of about $666,000. Federal mapping vehicles can be multi-year geospatial contracts, which pulls the mean above a single parcel plat. The packet does not count control points, map sheets, or acres surveyed.

Geophysical surveying is a neighboring professional class. A seismic or gravity survey tagged to that code does not sit in $1.6 billion under 541370. Those 2,343 awards are the except-geophysical mapping book as tagged, not a sheet count in a national map library.

Task orders versus maps delivered

The 2,343-award count is an award-identifier count, not a map-sheet count. USAspending may still group multiple task orders into awards. Dividing $1,559,375,542.90 by 2,343 awards is a mean obligation per award, not a price per acre.

Surveying contracts often obligate estimated professional fees and pay as deliverables are accepted. Unused option years leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $1.6 billion as maps already published would overstate cash. SpendingVault reports the tagged mapping sum, not a geophysical crew roster.

What this total excludes

Assistance that funds state GIS offices often lacks NAICS and does not enter $1,559,375,542.90. In-house federal cartographers are not 541370 contracts. Satellite imagery tagged to a data or R&D NAICS follows the principal class the officer selected.

Architectural services and construction staking mixed into a design-build vehicle may carry a construction or architecture code instead of 541370. Cadastral plats, cartographic production, and geospatial task orders can share 541370 when that is the principal class. The $1,559,375,542.90 total does not split those deliverables across the 2,343 awards.

How to use the 541370 hub

Read $1.6 billion and 2,343 awards as the non-geophysical surveying-and-mapping tag, then open the surveying and mapping except geophysical services industry page for award-level fields. Rank 541 professional-services codes on the all-industries index without converting this class into a geophysical or construction total.

This guide does not add acreage tables because they are not in the facts object. Construction staking folded into a design-build vehicle may carry a construction NAICS instead. Quote obligations, not acres, and keep geophysical crews out because the Census title excludes them.

Classification limits

Non-geophysical surveying is not geophysical exploration and not in-house agency cartography. SpendingVault reports the tagged 541370 sum.

Extract updates will move $1,559,375,542.90 and 2,343 with USAspending.

Plats and geospatial vehicles, not seismic crews

Two thousand three hundred forty-three awards at $1,559,375,542.90 produce a mean of about $666,000. Geospatial IDIQs can carry many task orders under one award identifier, which is why the mean is not a price per acre and not a map-sheet price. Geophysical surveying is excluded by the Census title. A seismic crew tagged to a geophysical class does not sit in this $1.6 billion. Satellite imagery tagged to a data or R&D NAICS follows that principal class instead.

Assistance that funds state GIS offices often omits NAICS and stays outside $1,559,375,542.90. In-house federal cartographers are not 541370 contracts. Architectural services mixed into design-build may carry a construction or architecture code. Open the surveying and mapping except geophysical services industry page for award-level fields. Rank 541 professional-services codes on the all-industries index. Cite USAspending.gov. Unused option years mean obligated mapping dollars can exceed maps already accepted. A searcher asking how much the federal government spent on mapping should still separate non-geophysical surveying from seismic work. The $1,559,375,542.90 figure answers the NAICS 541370 question only. The 2,343-award count answers how many award identifiers carried that tag, not how many acres were surveyed. Open the surveying and mapping except geophysical services industry page, then compare other 541 professional-services codes on the all-industries index. Keep the language to obligations recorded in USAspending.gov, and do not convert the mean of about $666,000 into a price per plat.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 541370?

Surveying and mapping except geophysical services contracts in USAspending show $1,559,375,542.90 in obligations across 2,343 awards. That is a cadastral and cartographic professional-services tag, not geophysical exploration. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without a NAICS code is excluded from this industry extract.

What is the average surveying-and-mapping award?

Dividing $1,559,375,542.90 by 2,343 awards yields about $666,000. That mean often reflects multi-year geospatial vehicles rather than a single parcel plat. It is not a price per acre and not a map-sheet price. The packet does not publish a median or a count of control points.

Does this include geophysical surveying?

No. The Census title excludes geophysical services. Seismic and related exploration use a different professional class. Mixed mapping-and-geophysics vehicles follow the principal NAICS the officer selected. This $1.6 billion is the except-geophysical tag. Use the surveying hub for cadastral and cartographic contracts only.

Are these dollars already paid to surveyors?

No. USAspending reports obligations on this hub, not outlays. Open task orders and unused options can leave balances unliquidated after the award posts. The 2,343-award count is not a proof of maps delivered. Cite USAspending.gov for the tagged extract on SpendingVault.