NAICS 561720 janitorial services contract obligations

Cleaning labor as a tagged service

NAICS 561720 is janitorial services. Contracting officers assign it when the principal purpose is cleaning buildings and related janitorial work. Buying floor machines through a wholesaler uses a 423 wholesale code; this $7,925,343,080.48 is the labor-and-service tag. Residual support services (561990) is a different leftover bin and is not a subset of janitorial.

Ten thousand four hundred five awards produced a mean of about $761,686. Federal janitorial work is often bundled into facility contracts covering many buildings and option years, which pulls the mean above a single-night cleaning invoice. The packet does not count square feet cleaned or staff hours.

A facilities contract that mixes janitorial with other base operations will carry one principal NAICS. If that code is 561720, non-janitorial line items on the same action sit in this total. If the officer chose a broader support code, janitorial line items on that action would not.

Janitorial services (561720) are a labor tag at $7,925,343,080.48 on 10,405 awards, about $761,686 per award. That mean is far above a single-night invoice because federal custodial work is often bundled into multi-building, multi-year vehicles. Wholesale of service-establishment equipment (423850) is the goods tag. Residual support (561990) is the leftover 561 bin. This page is janitorial services only.

Recurring services and the obligation clock

Janitorial contracts typically run by period of performance. Agencies obligate estimated annual amounts and pay as months are performed. Outlays trail obligations on unused option years. Treating $7.9 billion as cleaning already completed would overstate cash on open vehicles.

The 10,405-award count is not a building count. One award can cover a campus; many awards can cover small sites. Dividing dollars by awards is not a cost per building.

Equipment wholesale is a different page

Service establishment equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers (423850) measure goods. Janitorial services measure work. The two $8-billion-scale hubs in this extract answer different questions. Adding them would mix mops purchased with floors cleaned.

Assistance that funds local cleaning programs often lacks NAICS and does not enter $7,925,343,080.48.

A facilities contract that mixes custodial work with other base operations will carry one principal NAICS. If that code is 561720, non-janitorial line items on the same action sit in this $7.9 billion. If the officer chose 561990, janitorial line items on that action would not.

How to use the 561720 hub

Read $7.9 billion and 10,405 awards as the janitorial contract tag, then open the janitorial services industry page for award-level agency and recipient fields. Rank 561 codes on the all-industries index without converting them into a cleanliness score.

This guide does not add locations because they are not in the facts object.

Classification limits

Custodial work can be tagged 561720 or buried in a broader facilities NAICS. SpendingVault reports the tagged janitorial sum, not a reconstructed cleaning ledger for every federal building.

Extract updates will move $7,925,343,080.48 and 10,405 with USAspending.

How to keep supply buys out of the cleaning total

Searchers who want “federal cleaning spending” may mean labor, supplies, or both. This hub answers the labor tag: $7.9 billion across 10,405 awards. The supply tag lives on 423850. Adding the two pages mixes mops purchased with floors cleaned.

Open the janitorial services industry page for award-level fields. Rank 561 codes on the all-industries index. Cite USAspending.gov. No square footage or headcount appears in the packet. Assistance without NAICS is excluded. Obligations remain distinct from outlays on unused option years.

Janitorial services at $7,925,343,080.48 on 10,405 awards are a labor tag. The mean of about $761,686 reflects multi-building, multi-year vehicles more than a single-night invoice. Square footage and headcount are not in the packet.

Wholesale of cleaning equipment is NAICS 423850, a goods tag. Residual support services are NAICS 561990. This page stays on 561720. Open the janitorial services industry page for award-level fields. Cite USAspending.gov. Unused option years mean obligations can exceed cash already paid for completed months.

Ten thousand four hundred five janitorial awards at $7,925,343,080.48 are facility-labor contracts. Buying the mop is a wholesale question; swinging it is this 561720 question. Mixed facilities vehicles follow one principal NAICS. Unused option years explain why obligations can exceed invoices for months already cleaned. Open the janitorial services industry page. Cite USAspending.gov.

Questions

How much is obligated for federal janitorial contracts?

Contracts tagged NAICS 561720 show $7,925,343,080.48 in USAspending obligations across 10,405 awards. That is a janitorial-services tag, not wholesale of cleaning equipment. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without NAICS is excluded. Award rows are on the industry page.

What is the average janitorial award?

Dividing $7,925,343,080.48 by 10,405 awards yields about $761,686. That mean often reflects multi-building, multi-year vehicles rather than a single-night invoice. It is not a cost per square foot. The packet does not publish square footage, a median, or a headcount.

Does this include buying janitorial supplies?

Only if the officer tagged a supply action as 561720. Merchant wholesale of service-establishment equipment and supplies is NAICS 423850, a separate hub. This $7.9 billion is the janitorial-services tag. Use the wholesale page for 423850 dollars. Use the 423850 hub for wholesale of service-establishment equipment and this hub for tagged janitorial services.

Is NAICS 561720 the same as all other support services?

No. All other support services is NAICS 561990, a residual class. Janitorial has its own six-digit code. The two totals are not interchangeable. A mixed facilities contract will follow whichever principal NAICS the officer selected. A mixed facilities contract follows whichever principal NAICS the officer selected; do not assume leftover 561990 contains 561720 dollars.