Computer Systems Design Services federal obligations in California

Systems design and California as a pair

Computer Systems Design Services as the NAICS industry, California as place of performance: 592 records summing to $850,978,747.02. An award in this industry coded outside CA is out. An award in California from a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. California (CA) excludes Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in California. California place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Los Angeles, San Diego, the Bay Area, or a named facility.

592 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 592 as 592 unique firms. The overlay path for this pair is the ties page for computer systems design services in California. California federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 541512 is the industry book without a CA filter. California industries lists other NAICS cells inside the state. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is about $1,437,464 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: California did not “cause” $850,978,747.02 by existing as a large or small place, and NAICS 541512 did not “cause” the geography tag. Population, employment, and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 541512 × CA only.

Design services, not a deployed-system count

$850,978,747.02 does not measure systems deployed, users supported, or software licenses issued. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. NAICS 541512 covers computer systems design services: systems design, integration, and related professional work as coded on the award. It is not hardware manufacturing and not a census of systems placed in production. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 541512 and a CA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 592 awards as a census of systems deployed. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If California federal spending or the national NAICS 541512 table matched $850,978,747.02 and 592, 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.

California statewide, not a local map

Place of performance CA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. California (CA) excludes Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in California. Recipient headquarters can sit in another state while the place-of-performance tag remains CA. Contractor address is not this filter.

California place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Los Angeles, San Diego, the Bay Area, or a named facility. This packet does not split $850,978,747.02 by city, county, installation, or named facility. 592 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. $850,978,747.02 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in California confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

California’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 592-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 $850,978,747.02. Campaign-finance filings are a different dataset; this page does not treat donations as funding these awards.

Citing Systems design in California

Cite USAspending.gov: Computer Systems Design Services (NAICS 541512) obligated $850,978,747.02 on 592 awards coded to California. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as systems deployed, users supported, or software licenses issued.

Prefer the ties page for computer systems design services in California if a live overlay has refreshed after an ingest. California federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to CA. NAICS 541512 is the industry parent without the CA filter. California industries is the state’s industry index. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $850,978,747.02.

A usable footnote names Computer Systems Design Services, California, NAICS 541512, $850,978,747.02, and 592. The compact headline $851M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1,437,464 is $850,978,747.02 divided by 592. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated for computer systems design services in California?

USAspending.gov records $850,978,747.02 across 592 awards with NAICS 541512 and a California place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of systems deployed. Keep both keys when quoting $850,978,747.02.

Does this total count computer systems deployed?

No. The packet publishes $850,978,747.02 and 592 awards for NAICS 541512 inside CA coding. Systems deployed, users supported, or software licenses issued are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this California file have 592 awards?

That is the award-record count for 541512 × CA. Combined with $850,978,747.02, the average is about $1,437,464. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 592 is not unique systems deployed. Later ingests can revise the count.

Where is the live table?

California federal spending and NAICS 541512 are the parents, not addends. California industries lists other NAICS cells in the state. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $850,978,747.02. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.