Computer Systems Design Services in Virginia 8th District (VA-08)
$19,394,839,073.78 in USAspending.gov obligations pairs NAICS 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services) with Virginia 8th District (VA-08) across 827 awards. The join is NAICS 541512 crossed with a VA-08 location field, not Virginia's entire systems-design book and not a named-integrator inventory. The dollars are commitments, not Treasury outlays. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one.
Key figures
- Computer Systems Design Services (NAICS 541512) × VA-08: $19,394,839,073.78 across 827 awards.
- About 20.2% of the VA-08 district parent $96,192,518,081.34 by arithmetic.
- 827 awards are a row count, not a programmer or vendor census.
- Obligations are not outlays; no fiscal year is in the packet.
- FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell; source is USAspending.gov.
NAICS 541512 × VA-08 is a systems-design join, not a programmer roster
This page is a join: Computer Systems Design Services (NAICS 541512) as the industry key, and Virginia 8th District (VA-08) as congressional district place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations to $19,394,839,073.78 on 827 awards. The join is NAICS 541512 crossed with a VA-08 location field, not Virginia's entire systems-design book and not a named-integrator inventory. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district received more, and not a claim that 827 awards equal 827 programmers or 827 unique contractors.
The VA-11 systems-design cell sits outside this total unless those awards also carry NAICS 541512 and VA-08. VA-03 shipbuilding is a different NAICS. Mixing those books into $19,394,839,073.78 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and local IT employment is not causation. Badge counts, contract vehicle names, and programmer headcounts are not in the packet. Place of performance as VA-08 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $19,394,839,073.78 in a district treasury. Arlington-versus-Alexandria folklore is not a geography split in this packet.
827 awards behind $19.39 billion
Mean obligation is about $23,452,042.41 if $19,394,839,073.78 were divided evenly across 827 lines. That ratio is not a published loaded labor rate and not a typical task-order size. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of programmers, systems, or unique vendors. Eight hundred twenty-seven awards against a nineteen-billion-dollar cell is a thick task-order file, thinner than VA-11's 7,115-award 541512 join and still not a spare-parts dump.
IT task orders and modifications can multiply rows without multiplying unique vendors. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open Virginia 8th District for the stored district table. Do not convert 827 into a map of Virginia 8th District data centers. The $19,394,839,073.78 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on the overlay rather than inferring a programmer census.
Virginia 8th District, not a Northern Virginia IT rollup
Virginia 8th District (VA-08) is one geography tag on USAspending awards, not a commuting zone and not a metro list. Awards tagged to VA-11, VA-10, or another Virginia district are out even if the integrator name sounds related. Recipient address can differ from that district tag. The district parent in this extract is $96,192,518,081.34 across every industry; $19,394,839,073.78 is the Computer Systems Design Services slice — about 20.2% of that parent by arithmetic. Subtracting is tempting; this page still does not publish the leftover NAICS list.
A statewide systems-design figure on Virginia federal spending is a different shelf. Do not rank VA-08 against neighboring districts as a winner or loser. Other Virginia district cells are other joins. Virginia federal spending is the statewide book without a district filter. Adding statewide Computer Systems Design Services dollars to $19,394,839,073.78 would double count. Campaign-finance filings are a different public-record system; this join does not claim donations funded these obligations.
NAICS 541512 obligations are not tickets already closed
Computer systems-design awards often obligate as IDIQ task orders and draw as hours post. The $19,394,839,073.78 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of tickets already closed and not a Treasury outlay total. A federal IT-services dashboard dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses NAICS 541512, VA-08 geography, and the obligation metric.
NAICS 541512 is the nationwide industry book without a VA-08 filter. This extract does not split cybersecurity from cloud from legacy sustainment, and it does not merge VA-11's 541512 dollars into this cell. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 827 awards, NAICS 541512, and Virginia 8th District. This page will not invent a share. Unique recipients remain unpublished.
What the VA-08 systems-design table omits
The extract has no integrator names, vehicle names, or programmer counts. Facts remain $19,394,839,073.78, 827 awards, NAICS 541512, Computer Systems Design Services, Virginia 8th District (VA-08), and district parent $96,192,518,081.34. Inner Northern Virginia IT folklore belongs on another extract if it appears at all. Keep the obligation label. Later ingests can revise both the dollars and the 827-award count; prefer the live table when the overlay and this snapshot diverge.
Where the 541512 × VA-08 pair lives
Start with Virginia 8th District for the district rollup that contains this Computer Systems Design Services cell. NAICS 541512 is the nationwide NAICS 541512 listing. Virginia federal spending gives Virginia context without a VA-08 filter. All spending ties indexes other two-key joins on the same obligation metric. Eight hundred twenty-seven awards totaling this cell remain an administrative file, not a programmer roster. Keep both Computer Systems Design Services and Virginia 8th District (VA-08) in every citation sentence. Do not recast $19,394,839,073.78 as cash already paid or as Virginia's entire IT-services appropriation. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join. FEC contribution tables do not fund this cell.
Questions
- How much Computer Systems Design Services spending is obligated in Virginia 8th District?
- USAspending.gov shows $19,394,839,073.78 in Computer Systems Design Services (NAICS 541512) obligations with Virginia 8th District (VA-08) as place of performance, across 827 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district's full $96,192,518,081.34 parent. Other NAICS codes sit outside this join unless they also carry 541512.
- Do 827 awards mean 827 contractors in VA-08?
- No. Award count is a row count of NAICS 541512 actions tagged to VA-08, including task-order modifications. It is not a vendor census. Unique recipients are unpublished. Mean obligation of about $23,452,042.41 is a quotient of $19,394,839,073.78 and 827.
- Does the VA-08 systems-design cell include VA-11 systems-design dollars?
- No. VA-11 is a different place-of-performance join on the same NAICS. $19,394,839,073.78 is about 20.2% of the Virginia 8th District parent $96,192,518,081.34 by arithmetic. Cite USAspending.gov as the source.
- Is the VA-08 systems-design total already paid as outlays?
- Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $19,394,839,073.78 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Invoice draws and remaining balances are not published here. Cite USAspending.gov as the source.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to NAICS industry. Obligations are not outlays.