Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing

A billion dollars spread across 256,416 actions

$1,114,700,925.77 divided by 256,416 awards is about $4,347 per action. That is the opposite of a concentrated finance code. Maintenance depots, shipyards, aviation supply, and facility shops place enormous numbers of small fastener orders. Each delivery order or call can appear as a contract action in USAspending. The $1,114,700,925.77 is still a large obligation total; it is simply built from many small rows rather than a few large ones.

High award counts can include modifications, blanket-purchase calls, and repeated restocks. 256,416 is not a count of unique part numbers or unique factories. It is the number of tagged actions in the extract. Readers who sample the industry table should expect a long tail of small-dollar rows and a thinner head of larger buys.

What fastener manufacturing includes on a federal award

Census NAICS 332722 is manufacturing of bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, and washers. Federal tags follow the vendor’s primary industry. A distributor that is classified as a wholesaler may land in a merchant-wholesale NAICS instead of 332722 even if the SKU is a bolt. A manufacturer of fasteners should land here. The $1,114,700,925.77 is the manufacturing-coded slice, not every nut and bolt the government has ever bought.

Aerospace-grade fasteners, construction fasteners, and industrial fasteners can share this six-digit code. This guide does not split the 256,416 awards by grade or material because those dimensions are not in the packet facts. Award descriptions on the industry hub are the place to inspect a specific NSN or part family.

Questions

How much does the federal government obligate on fastener manufacturing?

NAICS 332722 shows $1,114,700,925.77 in contract obligations on 256,416 USAspending awards. That is a high-volume catalog pattern. The figure is obligations, not outlays, and not a count of individual bolts. Quote it as USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 332722, not as cash outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 256,416-award extract behind $1,114,700,925.77.

Why are there more than 250,000 awards for about $1.11 billion?

Fasteners are bought as many small supply actions. 256,416 awards against $1,114,700,925.77 averages about $4,347. Calls against blanket vehicles and restock orders add rows. The industry hub shows the size distribution. Fabricated structural metal (332312) is frames and members, not fasteners. Keep $1,114,700,925.77 attached to 332722 as tagged on 256,416 actions; do not merge neighbor codes into the same unlabeled cell.

Does 332722 include fastener wholesalers?

Not by design. 332722 is manufacturing. Merchant wholesalers use other NAICS. Some dual-role vendors may be tagged either way. This page’s $1,114,700,925.77 follows the 332722 tag on 256,416 contract actions. That pattern is a quarter-million small catalog actions, with about $4,347 per action as the simple average of $1,114,700,925.77 over 256,416 awards. Use aggregates first; 256,416 rows are a catalog, not a narrative.

Are grant-funded hardware purchases in this total?

Usually no. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they sit outside this contract extract. Use program pages for grants and the fastener industry page for tagged manufacturing contracts. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $1,114,700,925.77 obligated on 256,416 bolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field; assistance without NAICS is a different award type.