All Other Professional, Scientific, And Technical Services federal obligations in Maryland

Other PST services and Maryland as a pair

All Other Professional, Scientific, And Technical Services as the NAICS industry, Maryland as place of performance: 1,687 records summing to $590,788,977.76. An award in this industry coded outside MD is out. An award in Maryland from a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. Maryland (MD) excludes Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Maryland. Maryland place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Baltimore, Bethesda, or a named lab campus.

1,687 awards is a mid-count industry cell. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows without each one being a new establishment. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,687 as 1,687 unique firms. The overlay path for this pair is the ties page for all other professional, scientific, and technical services in Maryland. Maryland federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 541990 is the industry book without a MD filter. Maryland industries lists other NAICS cells inside the state. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is about $350,201 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: Maryland did not “cause” $590,788,977.76 by existing as a large or small place, and NAICS 541990 did not “cause” the geography tag. Population, employment, and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 541990 × MD only.

A residual professional-services code

$590,788,977.76 does not measure firms in the residual professional-services bucket or staff employed. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. NAICS 541990 covers all other professional, scientific, and technical services: professional work not classified in more specific 541 codes, as tagged on the award. It is not a census of consulting firms and not a headcount of scientists. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 541990 and a MD place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,687 awards as a census of firms counted. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Maryland federal spending or the national NAICS 541990 table matched $590,788,977.76 and 1,687, the join would be pointless. Use the ties page when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state cells for the same NAICS are other pairs, not addends.

Maryland statewide, not a local map

Place of performance MD is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Maryland (MD) excludes Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Maryland. Recipient headquarters can sit in another state while the place-of-performance tag remains MD. Contractor address is not this filter.

Maryland place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Baltimore, Bethesda, or a named lab campus. This packet does not split $590,788,977.76 by city, county, installation, or named facility. 1,687 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Do not infer a regional ranking from a single state×industry cell.

Obligations still are not outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $590,788,977.76 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Maryland confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Maryland’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,687-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $590,788,977.76. Campaign-finance filings are a different dataset; this page does not treat donations as funding these awards.

Citing Other PST services in Maryland

Cite USAspending.gov: All Other Professional, Scientific, And Technical Services (NAICS 541990) obligated $590,788,977.76 on 1,687 awards coded to Maryland. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as firms in the residual professional-services bucket or staff employed.

Prefer the ties page for all other professional, scientific, and technical services in Maryland if a live overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Maryland federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to MD. NAICS 541990 is the industry parent without the MD filter. Maryland industries is the state’s industry index. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $590,788,977.76.

A usable footnote names All Other Professional, Scientific, And Technical Services, Maryland, NAICS 541990, $590,788,977.76, and 1,687. The compact headline $591M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $350,201 is $590,788,977.76 divided by 1,687. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated for all other professional, scientific, and technical services in Maryland?

USAspending.gov records $590,788,977.76 across 1,687 awards with NAICS 541990 and a Maryland place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of firms counted. Keep both keys when quoting $590,788,977.76.

Does this total count professional-services firms?

No. The packet publishes $590,788,977.76 and 1,687 awards for NAICS 541990 inside MD coding. Firms in the residual professional-services bucket or staff employed are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Maryland file have 1,687 awards?

That is the award-record count for 541990 × MD. Combined with $590,788,977.76, the average is about $350,201. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,687 is not unique firms counted. Later ingests can revise the count.

Where is the live table?

Maryland federal spending and NAICS 541990 are the parents, not addends. Maryland industries lists other NAICS cells in the state. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $590,788,977.76. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.