Federal obligations in investigation and personal background check services (NAICS 561611)

Commercial investigation, not a 922 public-admin code

NAICS 561611 covers investigation and personal background-check services. Suitability investigations, credentialing support, and related commercial investigative work can land here when the award is tagged 561611. Security guards (561612), security systems (561621), and residual justice public-administration (922190) sit on other codes. The $4,314,855,763.77 total is the investigation/background tag, not “all federal vetting.”

An in-house federal investigator on the GS rolls is not this NAICS. A contractor tagged 561611 is. SpendingVault reports the USAspending award tag, not an OPM caseload and not an FEC employer string such as “investigator.”

2,465 awards on a $4.31 billion obligation stock

Two thousand four hundred sixty-five awards produced $4,314,855,763.77 in obligations. That action count is moderate: similar to other professional-support rows in this batch, far thinner than wholesale files. Large investigative-support vehicles can sit beside smaller credentialing task orders. The packet does not split those types.

Obligations move with new awards, options, and modifications, including deobligations when a caseload drops. Outlays are payments for investigations delivered and are not this $4,314,855,763.77 rollup. A multi-year vetting vehicle can show a large commitment while invoices follow case completions. The industry page does not convert obligations into a case calendar.

Contract NAICS versus justice grants

USAspending.gov stores NAICS on contract actions. Byrne, COPS, and many state justice assistance awards are assistance and often have no NAICS field. Those dollars will not add to the 2,465 awards even when the work involves background screening. Open program pages for grant-funded justice activity.

The label is a Census investigation-services classification. It is not a clearance-level census, not a Uniform Crime Report category, and not campaign-finance text. Cite USAspending.gov via SpendingVault for $4,314,855,763.77 and the 2,465-award count.

Reading the 561611 table

The hub lists recipients and awards that share this NAICS tag. A large obligation is a disclosed commitment. It is not a finding that a subject was denied, that a file was mishandled, or that a small business was excluded. SpendingVault does not score investigative quality from the dollar total.

Use award IDs, not the $4,314,855,763.77 headline, to separate two companies. Subcontracted field investigators may be missing if the prime coded 561611. UEI and name changes are ordinary in the file.

Neighboring security and justice codes

Guard services (561612), security systems (561621), and residual justice public administration (922190) are separate pages. Adding them to $4,314,855,763.77 would mix patrol, alarms, and public-admin residual work with background investigations. That recode is not this page.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside the 2,465-award count. For a firm that holds both investigative contracts and grants, open the recipient record. This guide stays on contract NAICS 561611 from USAspending.gov. Keep obligations distinct from outlays.

Background checks versus guard and alarm contracts

A courthouse guard contract tagged 561612 will not raise the 2,465-award count. An alarm installation tagged 561621 will not either. An investigation support vehicle tagged 561611 sits in $4,314,855,763.77 even if the same prime also holds a guard vehicle. SpendingVault does not merge those rows. Public-administration residual 922190 is a different sector entirely.

Searchers who want “all security contractors” must add several 5616 codes and 9221 lines and will still miss assistance. This page does not perform that recode. Cite contract NAICS 561611 only. Do not treat the row as an FEC occupation called investigator or as a clearance-denial statistic. The $4,314,855,763.77 figure remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov. Modifications that cut a caseload will lower the running total without publishing an adjudication-time metric on this hub. Open award rows for case-type descriptions. Neighboring 5616 lines stay on their own pages unless those awards were tagged 561611. A credentialing task order tagged 561611 still sits in $4,314,855,763.77; a guard contract tagged 561612 does not. The 2,465 awards remain an action count, not a clearance census. Keep 922190 public-administration residual on its own page. Cite USAspending.gov contract NAICS 561611 only. Field investigation tagged 561611 remains inside this rollup; alarm installation tagged 561621 does not. The $4,314,855,763.77 headline is still obligations, not outlays. Open award rows for case-type lists the NAICS hub does not publish.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated under NAICS 561611?

USAspending.gov contract aggregates on SpendingVault show $4,314,855,763.77 in obligations across 2,465 awards tagged investigation and personal background check services. The number is obligations, not outlays. Assistance justice grants without NAICS are omitted. It is not guard services, not public-admin 922190, and not an FEC “investigator” string.

Does this include security guards?

Guard and patrol services are NAICS 561612. Those awards will not add to the $4,314,855,763.77 total unless tagged 561611. The 2,465 awards are the investigation/background contract tag from USAspending.gov via SpendingVault. Adding 561612 is a recode you must document. Open the 561612 page for guard totals.

Is this the same as NAICS 922190 justice activities?

No. 922190 is a residual public-administration class. NAICS 561611 is commercial investigation and background-check services. An award tagged 922190 will not add to the $4,314,855,763.77 total. The 2,465 awards are the 561611 contract tag from USAspending.gov only. Open the 922190 page for that residual class.

Are these figures cash outlays for investigations?

No. They are obligations: legally binding commitments on contract actions. Outlays are payments for investigations delivered and are not this $4,314,855,763.77 rollup. A multi-year vetting vehicle can obligate a large amount while invoices follow case completions. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov contract NAICS for the 2,465 awards.