Department of Commerce federal obligations in Colorado

Commerce awards tagged to Colorado

This page retains rows where the awarding agency is the Department of Commerce and the place of performance is Colorado. The extract sums to $2,420,805,785.38 on 1,101 awards. Those numbers describe coding in USAspending.gov. They do not show that Commerce spending caused Colorado’s research cluster, or that Boulder and Denver employment caused the award book.

Standards labs, weather and space-weather shops, and statistical contractors can all attract Colorado place-of-performance tags. This packet does not split the 1,101 rows by bureau. A NIST-related facilities action and a Census IT task can share the same statewide cell. Correlation is not causation.

Place-of-performance can follow a lab campus, a regional office, or a contractor in the Denver metro. Work performed in other states can still be coded to Colorado. The 1,101 count is award records, including modifications, not unique scientists or weather stations.

Eleven hundred awards under $2.42 billion

Dividing $2,420,805,785.38 by 1,101 awards yields an implied mean near $2,198,734. That blended average mixes modest grants with larger facilities or systems vehicles. The packet has no median and no bureau table.

One thousand one hundred one rows is a midsize tape: busier than a 300-row formula file, thinner than a six-figure loan book. Cite both columns. USAspending.gov is the source.

Colorado’s Front Range labs and contractor offices attract Commerce tags without proving that every dollar of $2,420,805,785.38 was spent inside the state. A national systems vehicle coded to one Boulder or Denver address can dominate the 1,101-row cell. This packet does not reallocate subcontractors. Read the overlay as a coding view, not an economic-impact model of the Front Range. Later bulk files can move both dollars and the award count.

Colorado’s Commerce cell versus parent rollups

Colorado’s statewide hub includes every awarding agency with performance in the state. $2,420,805,785.38 is only Commerce. Commerce’s national hub includes every state. The join is the overlap.

State economic dashboards and lab-employment anecdotes are other stories. Mixing them with this award file leaves the obligation definition. This packet has no employment counts to quote.

Defense, Energy, and interior awards with Colorado performance sit outside this Commerce cell. Readers who need the full Colorado book should start on the state hub. Readers who need Commerce without a state filter should start on agency 013. $2,420,805,785.38 is only the overlap. Keep both sides of the join when you cite the figure so it is not mistaken for Colorado’s entire federal obligation total.

Commitments on multi-year lab vehicles

Facilities and systems awards can remain open across years. $2,420,805,785.38 is the obligation stock on the tagged rows, not cash already paid to Colorado vendors. SpendingVault does not publish a Commerce-in-Colorado outlay total here.

Cite the pair as agency 013 × Colorado, $2,420,805,785.38, 1,101 awards, obligations only.

GDP and employment statistics for the Front Range are other series. They are not this award extract. A reader who treats $2,420,805,785.38 as a score of Colorado tech or aerospace has left the USAspending.gov obligation definition. The 1,101 figure is a record count, not a count of lab employees.

Using the overlay

The Colorado × Commerce overlay holds the structured rows. The Colorado state page and the Commerce agency page are the parents. The ties index lists other state–agency pairs.

Those links do not add a bureau mix this packet omits, and they do not convert $2,420,805,785.38 into outlays.

How to cite Commerce in Colorado

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (awarding agency 013) obligated $2,420,805,785.38 on 1,101 awards coded to Colorado. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop Colorado and call the figure a national Commerce total. Do not drop Commerce and call it Colorado’s entire federal book.

Later ingests can move dollars and the 1,101-award count. This prose is a snapshot. The overlay is the live cell. The implied mean near $2,198,734 remains a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical lab contract.

Questions

How much Department of Commerce spending is in Colorado?

USAspending.gov shows $2,420,805,785.38 in Commerce obligations coded to Colorado across 1,101 awards. Awarding-agency 013 and Colorado place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does this total fund NIST or NOAA labs in Colorado?

The packet does not split bureaus. $2,420,805,785.38 is the full agency 013 × Colorado cell on 1,101 awards. Lab-level budgets are not facts here.

What is the average Commerce award in Colorado?

The implied mean is about $2,198,734 from $2,420,805,785.38 divided by 1,101 awards. That quotient is blended. The packet has no median.

Are Commerce obligations in Colorado the same as outlays?

No. $2,420,805,785.38 is an obligation sum. Outlays are cash payments and can lag on multi-year facilities vehicles. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.