Department of Transportation in New Mexico

DOT awards tagged to New Mexico

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, New Mexico as place-of-performance: 1,367 records summing to $2,507,509,141.31. A Department of Transportation award coded outside NM is out. An award in New Mexico from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. New Mexico (NM) excludes Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and Oklahoma. An El Paso-coded award is Texas.

One thousand three hundred sixty-seven awards is a moderate DOT file. Highway, transit, aviation, and other offices can share 069. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,367 as 1,367 unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. The overlay Department of Transportation in New Mexico is the both-keys table. New Mexico federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without an NM filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and the rest of the state share one NM stamp. A mode split is unpublished. Correlation is not causation: New Mexico did not “cause” $2,507,509,141.31 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × NM only.

Not I-40 folklore or a lane-mile census

$2,507,509,141.31 does not measure lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 069 and an NM place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,367 awards as a census of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If New Mexico federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $2,507,509,141.31 and 1,367, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Texas, Arizona, and Colorado DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in New Mexico?

USAspending.gov records $2,507,509,141.31 across 1,367 awards with awarding agency 069 and a New Mexico tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Department of Transportation in New Mexico is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,507,509,141.31.

Is $2,507,509,141.31 a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates?

No. The packet publishes $2,507,509,141.31 and 1,367 awards for agency 069 inside NM coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this DOT file have 1,367 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × NM. Combined with $2,507,509,141.31, the average is about $1.83 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,367 is not unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Transportation in New Mexico is the overlay. New Mexico federal spending and Department of Transportation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,507,509,141.31. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.