Computer Systems Design Services federal obligations in Virginia
USAspending.gov records $7,649,085,782 in Computer Systems Design Services (NAICS 541512) obligations with Virginia place of performance, across 18,571 awards. That pair is an industry code crossed with a geography filter, not a national IT budget. Average obligation per award is about $411,883 — a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical systems-integration task order.
Key figures
- NAICS 541512 in Virginia: $7,649,085,782 across 18,571 awards.
- Average obligation per award is about $411,883.
- The total is obligations, not outlays, and not nationwide Systems design.
- VA is place of performance, not a Beltway-only split.
What NAICS 541512 and Virginia share on one row
NAICS 541512 and place-of-performance state VA meet here. $7,649,085,782 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not every federal award in Virginia, not the nationwide Computer Systems Design Services total, and not cash already paid. Northern-Virginia systems-integrator folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not a vendor list and not a clearance census.
18,571 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — tens of thousands of award actions behind a large obligation total. A long row list can mix small task orders with larger instruments. The join does not rank Virginia against other states and does not name integrators inside the extract.
Open Virginia federal spending for the filtered table, NAICS 541512 for the next hub, Virginia industries for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.
Systems-design actions under a Virginia geography tag
Dividing $7,649,085,782 by 18,571 yields about $411,883 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical systems-integration task order. NAICS 541512 is not 541519. Other computer-related services sit on a different industry hub. Do not collapse those codes because both appear in Virginia.
Northern-virginia systems-integrator folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Recipient rows live on the industry and state hubs, not in this narrative’s extra columns.
NAICS 541512 without a Virginia overlay is a different total
The NAICS 541512 page aggregates NAICS 541512 without requiring VA geography. The Virginia federal spending page aggregates all agencies and industries with Virginia place of performance. Virginia industries lists other industry cells in the same state. Only this tie applies both the 541512 filter and the VA filter, which is why it cites 18,571 awards and $7,649,085,782.
Place of performance in Virginia is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list VA while work occurs in Maryland or D.C. 541512 awards coded to those jurisdictions do not sit in this total even if the vendor’s mailroom is in Reston. This packet does not split Northern Virginia from Hampton Roads or Richmond.
Obligations, not outlays
An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $7,649,085,782 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Virginia over-reads the field.
Award count 18,571 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use Virginia federal spending, NAICS 541512, and Virginia industries. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.
What this pair does not prove
A large 541512 total in Virginia does not mean integrators caused Virginia’s contractor mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between Beltway geography and systems awards is expected; it is not a finding about software quality or waste.
Keep $7,649,085,782 labeled as NAICS 541512 obligations with Virginia place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An industry name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.
How to cite the Virginia–541512 pair
A clean footnote names NAICS 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services), Virginia place of performance, $7,649,085,782 in obligations, and 18,571 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $7,649,085,782 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $411,883 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical systems-integration task order.
Virginia federal spending, NAICS 541512, Virginia industries, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $7,649,085,782 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Northern Virginia-versus-Richmond folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Do not merge 541512 with 541511 or 541519. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.
Questions
- How much has NAICS 541512 obligated in Virginia?
- USAspending.gov records $7,649,085,782 in obligations for NAICS 541512 with Virginia place of performance, covering 18,571 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not the nationwide Systems design total. Original filings remain on the source sites.
- Is 541512 the same as other computer-related services in Virginia?
- The extract lists 18,571 award actions totaling $7,649,085,782. Average obligation per award is about $411,883, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical systems-integration task order. Unique recipients are not published here, and the row count is not a company census. Original filings remain on the source sites.
- Is this a Northern Virginia-only systems-design total?
- No. $7,649,085,782 and 18,571 awards are statewide Virginia place of performance. This packet does not split Northern Virginia from Hampton Roads or Richmond. A regional cut would be a different extract, not this NAICS–state join. Original filings remain on the source sites.
- Where are the live Virginia and NAICS 541512 tables?
- Virginia federal spending shows statewide spending. NAICS 541512 shows NAICS 541512 without a state filter. Virginia industries lists other Virginia industry cells. All spending ties lists other pairs. This page is the join of those two filters, not a restatement of either hub. Original filings remain on the source sites.
USAspending.gov NAICS industry aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.