Department of Transportation in Oregon

DOT awards tagged to Oregon

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Oregon as place-of-performance: 1,992 records summing to $4,374,925,818.98. A Department of Transportation award coded outside OR is out. An award in Oregon from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Oregon (OR) excludes Washington, California, Idaho, and Nevada. A Vancouver, Washington-coded award is WA even if the crew works in Portland.

One thousand nine hundred ninety-two awards sits in a moderate DOT band, close in count to Alaska’s 2,173-award Transportation cell but a different geography. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,992 as 1,992 unique lane-miles, transit boardings, or unique contractors. The overlay Department of Transportation in Oregon is the both-keys table. Oregon federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without an OR filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Port of Portland and mountain-pass folklore are unpublished. $4,374,925,818.98 stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: Oregon did not “cause” $4,374,925,818.98 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × OR only.

Not an I-5 or MAX census

$4,374,925,818.98 does not measure lane-miles, transit boardings, or unique contractors. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 069 and an OR place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,992 awards as a census of lane-miles, transit boardings, or unique contractors. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Oregon federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $4,374,925,818.98 and 1,992, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Washington, California, and Idaho DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Oregon?

USAspending.gov records $4,374,925,818.98 across 1,992 awards with awarding agency 069 and an Oregon tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of lane-miles, transit boardings, or unique contractors. Department of Transportation in Oregon is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,374,925,818.98.

Is $4,374,925,818.98 a measure of lane-miles, transit boardings, or unique contractors?

No. The packet publishes $4,374,925,818.98 and 1,992 awards for agency 069 inside OR 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 1,992 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × OR. Combined with $4,374,925,818.98, the average is about $2.20 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,992 is not unique lane-miles, transit boardings, or unique contractors. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Transportation in Oregon is the overlay. Oregon 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 $4,374,925,818.98. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.