USAspending in U.S. Virgin Islands District 98 (non-voting / unspecified)

What District 98 means for the Virgin Islands

USAspending uses 90 and 98 as unspecified or non-voting congressional-district codes on place of performance. For the U.S. Virgin Islands, 98 is that residual bin. The FY2024 obligation sum in the bin is $24.3 billion. The award count is 2,035 — a thin file next to a large dollar stock.

Do not read VI-98 as “the 98th district of the Virgin Islands.” The territory is not divided into 98 House seats. The code marks awards whose Virgin Islands performance location was not assigned to a standard numbered district field. It is a dataset bucket sitting on top of VI place of performance.

Two thousand thirty-five awards, $24.3 billion obligated

Two thousand thirty-five awards is a small record count beside $24.3 billion. That pairing is the distinctive fact on this hub: a large obligation total on a comparatively thin action count. The packet does not publish an average award size. Keep the dollar total and the row count as separate certified figures.

Row count is not unique vendors. The same recipient can appear on many awards. This packet does not provide a unique-recipient count. Use the hub table to see how the 2,035 records break out.

Place of performance in the territory, coded 98

Congressional district here is still place of performance, not recipient headquarters. A company based on the mainland can appear in the $24.3 billion if USAspending codes the work to VI-98. A Virgin Islands-headquartered firm can be missing if performance is coded to another jurisdiction.

HQ maps of the “Virgin Islands market” will not match this page. The page answers a narrower question: FY2024 obligations whose performance district is the VI-98 bucket.

Obligations, not outlays, in FY2024

The $24.3 billion is an obligation total. Obligations are legal commitments recorded in USAspending. Outlays are payments. A single-year obligation stock is not a cash-flow statement for the territory.

First year and last year are both 2024. This hub does not contain a second fiscal year for comparison. Report the number as FY2024 obligations for VI-98 place of performance, on 2,035 awards.

Territory page and district index

The U.S. Virgin Islands jurisdiction page rolls VI place-of-performance activity at the territory grain. The VI-98 hub is this residual district code. The all-districts index lists other 90 and 98 buckets alongside numbered House districts in the states. Those views share the same USAspending obligation source. Code 98 is a USAspending geography bucket, not the delegate’s office budget.

How VI-98 sits next to the territory page

The U.S. Virgin Islands jurisdiction page rolls VI place-of-performance activity at the whole-territory grain. VI-98 is narrower: 2,035 awards and $24.3 billion tagged to the unspecified 98 code. Those two views will not match dollar-for-dollar if other VI district codes exist in the source file. This packet only certifies the 98-code rollup.

A precise VI-98 citation is $24.3 billion in FY2024 USAspending obligations on 2,035 awards with unspecified or non-voting place-of-performance code 98. That is not the delegate’s budget and not a count of unique firms in the territory. Two thousand thirty-five is a record count. Mainland vendors can sit inside the $24.3 billion when performance is coded VI-98. Territory-based vendors can sit outside it when performance is coded elsewhere. Keep the $24.3 billion on a residual line. Do not treat code 98 as a numbered House seat. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are not this total. First year and last year are both 2024, so VI-98 has no trend line here.

Report VI-98 as a residual USAspending geography line for the territory, not as a 98th House seat and not as the delegate’s office budget. $24.3 billion in FY2024 obligations on 2,035 awards is the certified rollup for unspecified or non-voting place-of-performance code 98 in the U.S. Virgin Islands. 2,035 is a record count, not unique firms. Mainland vendors can sit inside $24.3 billion when performance is tagged VI-98. Territory-based vendors can sit outside it when performance is tagged elsewhere. The U.S. Virgin Islands jurisdiction page is a wider grain and may include other district codes if they exist in USAspending. This packet only certifies the 98-code rollup. Keep $24.3 billion on a leftover line. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are not this total. First year and last year are both 2024, so VI-98 has no trend line here. Cite USAspending.gov, FY2024, place of performance, obligations, $24.3 billion, and 2,035 awards.

Questions

How much did USAspending record for U.S. Virgin Islands District 98 in FY2024?

USAspending.gov shows $24.3 billion in FY2024 obligations for U.S. Virgin Islands District 98 place of performance, across 2,035 awards. Code 98 is an unspecified or non-voting bucket. The figures are obligations, not outlays, and cover FY2024 only. Those figures are FY2024 USAspending obligations with VI-98 place of performance, covering 2,035 awards, not outlays and not a headquarters extract.

Is District 98 the same as the Virgin Islands’ non-voting delegate seat?

No. USAspending’s 98 code is an unspecified or non-voting place-of-performance bucket in the award data. It is not the delegate’s office and not a 98th congressional district. The $24.3 billion total is a residual geography code for VI performance location.

Why are there only 2,035 awards next to $24.3 billion?

That is the FY2024 award-record count for the VI-98 performance code. It is not a unique-vendor count. The packet does not publish an average award size. Keep $24.3 billion and 2,035 as separate facts and use the hub table to inspect lines.

If a contractor is based in the Virgin Islands, is the award on this page?

Only if place of performance is coded VI-98. Headquarters in the territory is not the district field. Work performed in another coded location will not sit in this $24.3 billion total even when the recipient’s office is in the Virgin Islands.