USAspending in Virginia District 08, FY2024

One hundred seventy-eight thousand award records

USAspending counts 178,386 awards with Virginia District 08 place of performance in FY2024. Those records sum to $96.2 billion in obligations. A file this thick is almost certainly many small actions — task orders, modifications, assistance — rather than 178,386 unique companies. The packet has no unique-recipient count, so that remains an inference about row structure, not a vendor census.

Because first year and last year are both 2024, the 178,386 figure is a single-fiscal-year stock. It is not a running inventory of every award ever performed in the 8th district.

Place of performance near the capital, not an HQ census

Place of performance assigns the district. Recipient headquarters do not. Federal work coded to Virginia’s 8th district can be performed by vendors based in other Virginia districts, Maryland, the District of Columbia, or farther away. Those awards still sit in the $96.2 billion if the performance tag is VA-08.

Firms with offices inside District 08 can be missing when the work is coded to Virginia District 11, Virginia District 03, Virginia’s unspecified District 90 bucket, or another state. HQ lists of “8th district contractors” will not reproduce this file.

Numbered seat versus unspecified codes

Virginia District 08 is a voting House district. USAspending’s unspecified or non-voting buckets are 90 and 98. This page’s $96.2 billion is mapped to the 8th district’s performance code. Unmapped Virginia performance, if present, would appear on a 90-coded hub, not here.

The Virginia state page mixes numbered districts and any residual codes. Use that page for a statewide place-of-performance total. Use this page when the question is specifically District 08 performance location in FY2024.

Obligations, not disbursements

SpendingVault’s district totals are obligations: legal commitments recorded in USAspending. Outlays are payments. The $96.2 billion figure is the former. Contract vehicles around the National Capital region can obligate in one year and invoice across several.

The precise FY2024 statement is that agencies obligated $96.2 billion on 178,386 awards with VA-08 place of performance. It is not a statement that $96.2 billion was paid in cash inside the district that year. FY2024 is the only year in the facts; there is no District 08 trend line here.

Virginia pages that sit beside this hub

The Virginia District 08 hub is the award table. The Virginia state page is the statewide rollup. The all-districts index links to other Virginia numbered districts, including District 11 and District 03, and to unspecified 90/98 codes used in USAspending. A headquarters in the 8th without a VA-08 performance tag does not enter this file.

Virginia District 08’s 178,386-award file in context

One hundred seventy-eight thousand three hundred eighty-six awards summing to $96.2 billion is the thickest numbered-district file in this batch. That row volume is almost certainly many small actions. It is not 178,386 unique vendors. The Virginia District 08 hub is the only place in this project to inspect the mix; the packet has no agency split.

Virginia District 11 and District 03 are other numbered hubs. Virginia District 90 is the unspecified leftover. None of those totals is inside $96.2 billion. This page is VA-08 place of performance for FY2024 only. The Virginia state page rolls all Virginia codes. The all-districts index is the path among them. Report $96.2 billion as USAspending obligations — commitments, not outlays — on 178,386 awards with Virginia District 08 place of performance. Cite Virginia District 08 as $96.2 billion in FY2024 USAspending obligations on 178,386 awards with numbered code VA-08. The row count is the headline beside the dollars. One hundred seventy-eight thousand three hundred eighty-six records are actions, not unique vendors. Virginia District 11, District 03, and District 90 are other files. None of their totals sits inside $96.2 billion. The Virginia District 08 hub is the table. The Virginia state page rolls all Virginia codes and will not equal $96.2 billion. Obligations are not outlays. Headquarters in the 8th without a VA-08 tag does not enter this file. FY2024 is the only year in the packet. USAspending.gov is the source. Keep VA-08 on its own row in any capital-region table. Virginia District 08 can be briefed as $96.2 billion in FY2024 obligations on 178,386 awards with numbered code VA-08. The row count is large enough that unique-vendor language would be false. Keep District 11, District 03, and District 90 on other rows. This packet does not supply their dollars. What it supplies is VA-08 place-of-performance commitments from USAspending.gov, not outlays, not a headquarters extract, and not a multi-year series.

Questions

How much federal spending is in Virginia District 08 for FY2024?

USAspending.gov records $96.2 billion in FY2024 obligations with a Virginia District 08 place of performance, across 178,386 awards. These are obligations, not outlays. District is performance location, not headquarters. The facts cover FY2024 only. Those figures are FY2024 USAspending obligations with a Virginia District 08 place of performance, covering 178,386 awards, not outlays and not a headquarters extract.

Why does District 08 have 178,386 awards?

That is the FY2024 award-record count for the VA-08 place-of-performance code. It is not a unique-vendor count. Those records sum to $96.2 billion in obligations. A thick file usually means many smaller actions. The packet does not break the file by agency.

Is Virginia District 08 a 90-code unspecified bucket?

No. District 08 is a numbered Virginia congressional district. Codes 90 and 98 are USAspending’s unspecified or non-voting buckets. The $96.2 billion total is mapped to District 08, not to those residual codes. Virginia District 08 is a numbered House seat in this dataset; codes 90 and 98 are the unspecified buckets. The $96.2 billion FY2024 total on 178,386 awards is mapped to District 08 place of performance.

Do contractors headquartered in the 8th district all appear here?

No. Only awards with VA-08 place of performance enter the $96.2 billion and 178,386-award totals. A headquarters in the district is not sufficient. Work coded to another Virginia district or another state will appear elsewhere. Only the place-of-performance code puts an award in this $96.2 billion FY2024 rollup; a Virginia office address is neither required nor enough to enter the 178,386 records.