Computer systems design in Washington (NAICS 541512)

NAICS 541512 and Washington as a systems-design join

This page intersects one six-digit industry and one state. $132,244,190.57 is the obligation sum where both filters are true. NAICS 541512 is computer systems design services, not custom computer programming and not software publishers. It is not a statewide spending total and not a national NAICS 541512 total. Those parent tables live on Washington federal spending and NAICS 541512.

292 awards against $132.2 million is a mid-thick systems-design cell rather than a software-publisher or custom-code book. 292 is an award-record count. Modifications can sit beside base awards. The packet does not say how many unique vendors produced the 292 lines. Reading 292 as factories, ships, or clinics in Washington would confuse actions with establishments.

Washington industries lists other NAICS codes with WA place of performance. All spending ties indexes other state–industry pairs. Do not sum those indexes into $132,244,190.57. The headline remains $132,244,190.57 on 292 awards for this pair alone.

Systems design, not custom programming or publishers

NAICS 541512 is a Census industry code assigned on the award. NAICS 541512 is computer systems design services, not custom computer programming and not software publishers. Custom computer programming (541511) and software publishers (511210) are different codes. Those neighboring codes never enter $132,244,190.57 unless they also appear as 541512, which they do not. Keep the six-digit label when you cite the Washington cell.

Custom-code folklore is ordinary speech, not extra packet dollars. Unique contractors are unpublished. Dividing $132,244,190.57 by 292 produces about $452,891. That quotient is arithmetic, not a typical Washington contract. There is no median, no top-award table, and no fiscal-year breakout on this packet. Do not treat the mean as a posted unit price.

Washington geography on a systems-design cell

Washington place of performance can cover Seattle, the Puget Sound corridor, or a reporting address near Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The packet has no site split. Inside the WA tag, named cities are not broken out. The packet has one state key. A named city can sit inside $132,244,190.57 only if its awards carry NAICS 541512 and WA — which this narrative cannot verify.

Place-of-performance geography is not the same as contractor headquarters. A firm based elsewhere can perform in Washington, and a Washington address can appear on work done out of state. This join reports the coded pair, not a logistics map. Washington federal spending remains the statewide parent.

Obligations versus outlays for Washington 541512

USAspending obligations are commitments, not checks that have cleared. $132,244,190.57 can include amounts that will be paid later, cancelled, or modified. The packet does not publish outlays. 292 is not a payment count. Quote NAICS 541512 in Washington as obligations and leave fiscal-year folklore off the citation — years are unpublished here.

What the systems-design–Washington pair does not prove

The systems-design–Washington pair does not prove that Washington specialized in this industry because of federal demand, or the reverse. Custom-code folklore is ordinary speech, not extra packet dollars. Unique contractors are unpublished. Campaign-finance tables are a different dataset; donations do not fund these awards. Keep both sides of the join in any headline: NAICS 541512 and Washington.

How to cite NAICS 541512 in Washington

Cite USAspending.gov, NAICS 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services), Washington (WA), $132,244,190.57, and 292 awards. Note that the figures are obligations. Point readers to Washington federal spending, NAICS 541512, Washington industries, and All spending ties rather than collapsing those pages into this cell. Mean per award stays about $452,891 as a ratio only. Readers who reuse this state-industry snapshot should keep both sides of the join in the same sentence, cite USAspending.gov as the source, and treat award rows as records rather than unique vendors. The live hubs linked from this page can refresh the snapshot; this narrative does not invent a fiscal year, a recipient list, or an outlay total that the packet omitted. Place of performance remains a geography tag, not proof that work stayed inside the named state. Keep the obligation word on the headline dollar figure in every footnote.

Questions

How much has NAICS 541512 obligated in Washington?

The pair totals $132,244,190.57 across 292 awards, per USAspending.gov NAICS industry aggregates by place of performance state. Those are obligations for Computer Systems Design Services inside Washington coding, not outlays and not every federal dollar in Washington. Source filings stay on USAspending.gov.

How many systems-design awards sit in Washington?

292 award records produced $132,244,190.57. Concentration or dispersion is visible only as that count against that sum. About $452,891 per award is $132,244,190.57 divided by 292, not a typical Washington purchase. The packet does not list unique recipients or a median award.

Is this Washington software-publisher spending?

No. NAICS 541512 is computer systems design services. $132,244,190.57 across 292 awards is that systems-design join with Washington place of performance. Software publishers sit on 511210 and 513210, different codes. Those figures are obligations, not outlays, and they are not every federal dollar coded to the state. Keep both sides of the join in the citation and leave unique vendors unpublished.

Where are the parent Washington and NAICS 541512 tables?

Use Washington federal spending for the statewide industry mix, NAICS 541512 for the national industry page, Washington industries for the state NAICS index, and All spending ties for other joins. This page quotes only the 541512 × WA cell. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.