Federal obligations in computer facilities management services (NAICS 541513)

Running the facility versus designing the system

NAICS 541513 covers establishments that manage and operate computer facilities for clients: on-site data processing, facilities management, and related operations. On USAspending.gov the code tags contract awards classified as that operations work. It is not a count of servers, and it is not a cloud-invoice taxonomy. If a contracting officer tags a cloud or hosting buy as 541513, it lands here; if they tag it as another IT NAICS, it does not.

Custom programming is 541511. Systems design is 541512. Other computer related services is 541519. Software publishers are 511210. Facilities support services (561210) is general building operations, not computer-facility management. The $18.6 billion figure is only awards tagged 541513.

Reading $18.6 billion in operations obligations

USAspending records obligations on contract awards tagged 541513. Multi-year operations vehicles, task orders, and modifications all feed $18,625,451,396.72. This packet has no fiscal-year split and no outlay total. Operations contracts often increment as sites or shifts are added.

Outlays are the payments for that labor and hosting. Quote $18.6 billion as USAspending contract obligations coded to computer facilities management services. Do not describe it as all federal IT or as cash already spent.

3,102 awards on an operations code

The 3,102 award records are fewer than systems design or residual other-computer-services in this industry set, which fits a more specific operations line: fewer catch-all orders, still a substantial services footprint. The count is not 3,102 data centers. Open the industry page for the award list.

Operations work is the IT NAICS people skip when they quote systems design. Skipping it understates what agencies spend to keep shops running. USAspending awards tagged 541513 show $18,625,451,396.72 in obligations on 3,102 records. That is computer facilities management: operating computer facilities for a client, as classified. It is not custom programming (541511), not systems design (541512), not residual other computer services (541519), and not janitorial base operations (561210). Hosting tagged to another computer code will miss this page. The 3,102 award count is not a data-center census. Cite obligations, not outlays. Cite USAspending. Use the industry table for vendors.

What 541513 excludes

Assistance awards often lack NAICS and are outside this total. General facilities support (561210) is not computer-facility management. Wired telecom carriers (517110) sell transmission. Hardware manufacturing (334220, 334511) is production, not operations. Those neighboring tables are separate.

SpendingVault aggregates USAspending.gov contract data. The $18,625,451,396.72 total and the 3,102 award count can change after corrections. The live industry page is the table of record.

Using the computer-facilities industry page

Open the COMPUTER FACILITIES MANAGEMENT SERVICES industry page for the award list under the headline. Place 541513 next to 541511, 541512, 541519, and 511210 on All industries. Cite obligations, not outlays, and keep the 3,102 award count with the dollar figure.

Citing data-center operations without design or code

Cite $18,625,451,396.72 in USAspending obligations on 3,102 awards tagged NAICS 541513, computer facilities management services. Say operating computer facilities, not writing custom code, not designing systems, not publishing software, not general janitorial base ops.

The 3,102 award count is not data centers. Hosting and operations vehicles increment as sites are added; that is still an obligation field, not outlays. If a cloud buy was tagged 541519 or 541512, it will not sit in this $18.6 billion total. The industry page lists the 541513 records.

Computer facilities management is operations: running shops, processing, and related on-site or contracted facility management for computer operations. The $18,625,451,396.72 total is awards tagged 541513. The 3,102 records are that operations footprint. A data-center operations vehicle and a smaller site-management order can share the code. Server counts are not in the packet.

If a contracting officer tags hosting as 541519 or 541512, those dollars miss this page. General facilities support (561210) is janitorial and bundled base ops, not this computer-facility line. Cite USAspending obligations on 3,102 awards coded 541513. Custom code remains 541511. Publishers remain 511210. Outlays are unpublished here.

Questions

How much is obligated on NAICS 541513 computer facilities management?

USAspending.gov contract awards coded NAICS 541513 show $18,625,451,396.72 in obligations across 3,102 awards. That total is obligations, not outlays, for computer facilities management services. USAspending.gov records the amount as contract obligations, not outlays, on awards tagged NAICS 541513.

Is this the same as computer systems design?

No. Systems design is NAICS 541512. Facilities management is 541513—operating computer facilities. The $18,625,451,396.72 figure is 541513 only. The packet total is $18,625,451,396.72 across 3,102 awards; assistance awards often have no NAICS and stay outside the industry rollup.

Does 541513 include custom programming?

Custom computer programming is NAICS 541511. This table is facilities management. Programming dollars tagged 541511 are not inside this total. Treat the 3,102 figure as an award-record count, including orders and modifications, not as a physical inventory of products or sites.

Do 3,102 awards mean 3,102 data centers?

No. The 3,102 figure counts contract award records, including task orders and modifications. It is not a data-center inventory. This guide does not add a fiscal-year split. Quote the live industry page if you need the current award list under COMPUTER FACILITIES MANAGEMENT SERVICES.