USAspending in Texas District 12, FY2024

Texas’s 12th district as a performance location

USAspending tags congressional district from place of performance. For Texas District 12, that tag produced $192.5 billion in FY2024 obligations across 17,403 awards. The number describes work USAspending located in the 12th district, not a list of firms whose headquarters sit inside the district lines.

A numbered district is still a geography code in this dataset, not a member’s discretionary budget. Members do not “spend” this total. Agencies obligate on contracts, grants, and other awards whose performance location is coded TX-12.

Seventeen thousand awards, one fiscal year

The 17,403 award count is a FY2024 record count. First year and last year in the facts are both 2024, so there is no second year on this page for a trend. Modifications and task orders can add rows without meaning 17,403 unique vendors.

Dollar volume of $192.5 billion can be concentrated in a subset of those rows. This packet does not identify the largest awards or the leading agencies. The Texas District 12 hub is the table; this guide only states the rollup and the rules for reading it.

Headquarters will not match this map

Recipient HQ and place of performance diverge constantly in federal awarding. A company based elsewhere in Texas, or outside Texas, can still appear here if performance is coded to District 12. A firm located in District 12 can be missing if the work was performed in another district, in Texas District 90’s unspecified bucket, or in another state.

If the research question is “which companies in this district won awards,” HQ-based extracts are the wrong file. If the question is “what federal work did USAspending locate in Texas’s 12th district in FY2024,” the $192.5 billion total is the right rollup.

Obligations versus outlays

SpendingVault follows USAspending obligations on district pages. An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is cash paid. The $192.5 billion FY2024 figure is the commitment sum for TX-12 place of performance. It is not a statement that $192.5 billion was disbursed inside the district in that year.

Multi-year contracts can load a large obligation into FY2024 while invoices continue later. De-obligations in a later year do not rewrite this single-year slice. Keep the language on commitments. A FY2024 obligation on TX-12 can invoice in a later year without moving this page’s $192.5 billion into an outlay column.

Texas District 90 and the state rollup

Texas also has a District 90 unspecified bucket in USAspending for performance that did not map to a numbered seat. District 12 is not that bucket. Compare the two only with that caveat. The Texas state page aggregates statewide place of performance, and the all-districts index lists numbered Texas districts alongside residual codes. Seventeen thousand four hundred three records can include modifications of the same vehicle.

How to use Texas District 12 without mixing in TX-90

The Texas District 12 hub is the table for the 17,403 awards that sum to $192.5 billion. That is mapped 12th-district place of performance. Texas District 90 is the unspecified remainder and is not included in $192.5 billion. Adding the two codes together is a statewide-ish construct that the Texas state page already approximates more carefully.

Readers looking for “Fort Worth contractors” or any other city list will not find cities in this packet. The facts are district code, dollars, award count, and FY2024. Headquarters inside the 12th is still not the inclusion test. Performance coded TX-12 is. The all-districts index lists other Texas numbered districts and the 90-coded residual. All of those pages use USAspending obligations. This hub’s $192.5 billion is FY2024 commitments on 17,403 awards, not outlays and not a member-controlled account. Cite Texas District 12 as $192.5 billion in FY2024 USAspending obligations on 17,403 awards with numbered place-of-performance code TX-12. That is a mapped House district, not Texas District 90. The 90-coded residual is a different file and a different dollar total, which this packet does not include. Seventeen thousand four hundred three records can include task orders and modifications of the same vehicle. Unique vendors are not in the facts. The Texas District 12 hub is the award table. The Texas state page is wider. The all-districts index is the path to other Texas seats and to TX-90. Do not describe $192.5 billion as cash paid inside the 12th or as money the member spent. Agencies obligated that amount on awards USAspending located in the district in FY2024. Place of performance, not headquarters, is the test. The packet has no city field. First year and last year are both 2024.

Questions

How much federal spending is in Texas District 12 for FY2024?

USAspending.gov records $192.5 billion in FY2024 obligations with a Texas District 12 place of performance, on 17,403 awards. These are obligations, not outlays. The district field is performance location, not recipient headquarters. The facts cover FY2024 only. Those figures are FY2024 USAspending obligations with a Texas District 12 place of performance, covering 17,403 awards, not outlays and not a headquarters extract.

Is Texas District 12 an unspecified USAspending code?

No. District 12 is a numbered Texas congressional district. USAspending’s unspecified or non-voting buckets are codes 90 and 98. Texas District 12’s $192.5 billion is mapped to the 12th district’s place-of-performance tag, not to those residual codes. Texas District 12 is a numbered House seat in this dataset; codes 90 and 98 are the unspecified buckets. The $192.5 billion FY2024 total on 17,403 awards is mapped to District 12 place of performance.

Does $192.5 billion mean cash paid in the district?

No. It is the sum of FY2024 obligations — legal commitments — on 17,403 awards coded to Texas District 12 place of performance. Outlays are payments and are not this page’s district total. USAspending district totals on SpendingVault are obligations, so the $192.5 billion FY2024 figure is a commitment stock on 17,403 awards, not a disbursement total for Texas.

Will every District 12 company appear here?

No. Only awards whose place of performance is coded TX-12 appear in the $192.5 billion and 17,403-award totals. A company headquartered in the district can be absent if the work was performed elsewhere, including in Texas’s unspecified District 90 bucket.