Department of Education obligations in NAICS 541611 management consulting

Education × 541611 is a consulting join, not a TA census

Agency 091 and industry 541611 meet in this cell. $887,739,409.40 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Education's entire book of $398,145,700,789.94, not the national NAICS 541611 total, and not an outlay. The join is awarding agency 091 crossed with NAICS 541611, not the $398,145,700,789.94 Education agency total. The pair is the only object this page measures. Correlation is not causation: a large management consulting cell at Department of Education does not prove the agency exists to buy that industry.

Two hundred seventy-four awards sit beside $887,739,409.40. Two hundred seventy-four records is a mid-size consulting file, not a headcount of advisors. The count can include contracts, orders, and modifications. Treating 274 as a roster of vendors would misread award records as firms. Unique recipients are unpublished on this packet; this narrative names none. 0.22% of Department of Education's $398,145,700,789.94 agency total sits in this NAICS 541611 slice; the complement $397,257,961,380.54 remains in other codes on the Department of Education hub.

541720 and 541512 stay on other Education pages

Agency 091 is Department of Education. Other agencies' 541611 cells in this slice (Treasury, Justice, Commerce, EPA, NSF, SEC, MCC) are other pages. Open the Department of Education agency page for every industry under agency 091, NAICS 541611 for the code without an agency filter, All agencies for the portfolio index, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parent tables into $887,739,409.40.

The join is awarding agency 091 crossed with NAICS 541611, not the $398,145,700,789.94 Education agency total. Sibling NAICS codes stay on other industry pages: Social-science R&D (541720) and computer systems design (541512) are other Education professional cells in this slice. Mixing those dollars into $887,739,409.40 would invent a roll-up the packet does not publish. NAICS 541611 is the only industry key on this Department of Education tie. NAICS 541611 at Education is smaller in dollars than Education's collection-agency and systems-design cells in this slice.

274 awards without a vendor list

Dividing $887,739,409.40 by 274 awards yields about $3.24 million per award. That mean is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical invoice and not a median. The packet has no fiscal-year split, no de-obligation history, and no named contractor list. Two hundred seventy-four records is a mid-size consulting file, not a headcount of advisors. A high mean can be a handful of large vehicles; a low mean can be many delivery orders. This extract cannot tell those stories apart.

Consulting obligations are not technical assistance delivered

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $887,739,409.40 is the former. Citing the figure as cash already cleared by Department of Education over-reads the field. 274 remains an award-record count, not a payment count. Keep the obligation word when you quote NAICS 541611 at Department of Education. Itemized campaign gifts on FEC.gov are a different statute and do not fund these USAspending awards.

How to cite 091 × 541611

A clean footnote names Department of Education (agency 091), NAICS 541611 (Administrative Management And General Management Consulting Services), $887,739,409.40 in obligations, and 274 awards on USAspending.gov. Quote the Department of Education hub if you need every industry under 091, and quote NAICS 541611 if you need the code without the agency filter. All agencies and All spending ties are indexes, not addends. NAICS 541611 at Education is smaller in dollars than Education's collection-agency and systems-design cells in this slice. Do not per-capita the total; population is unpublished here.

Questions

How much did Education obligate in NAICS 541611?

USAspending.gov records $887,739,409.40 in obligations for Department of Education awards coded to NAICS 541611 (Administrative Management And General Management Consulting Services), covering 274 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the agency–industry pair, not an outlay and not Department of Education's $398,145,700,789.94 agency total.

Do 274 awards equal 274 consulting firms?

The extract lists 274 award actions totaling $887,739,409.40. Average obligation per award is about $3.24 million, a ratio, not a typical invoice. Unique recipients are not published on this packet, so this page names no contractors.

Is this the same 541611 cell as Treasury or DOJ?

No. Each awarding agency has its own 541611 join. This page is Department of Education (091) only, at $887,739,409.40 on 274 awards. Treasury, Justice, and other 541611 pages remain separate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both sides of the join in the citation.

Where are the parent Department of Education and NAICS 541611 tables?

The Department of Education agency hub shows every industry under agency 091. NAICS 541611 shows the code without an agency filter. All agencies is the portfolio index. All spending ties lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later USAspending ingests.