Department of Transportation federal obligations in Delaware

DOT awards tagged to Delaware

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Delaware as place-of-performance: 592 records summing to $1,371,628,180.92. A Department of Transportation award coded outside DE is out. An award in Delaware from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Delaware (DE) excludes Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. A Philadelphia-coded award is Pennsylvania even if the corridor crosses the river.

Five hundred ninety-two awards sits in a mid-count DOT band. Modifications can add rows without each row being a new construction project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 592 as 592 unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. The overlay Department of Transportation in Delaware is the both-keys table. Delaware federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without a DE filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Wilmington is unpublished as a metro share. $1,371,628,180.92 stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: Delaware did not cause $1,371,628,180.92 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × DE only.

Not I-95 folklore or a bridge census

$1,371,628,180.92 does not measure lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 069 and a DE place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 592 awards as a census of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Delaware federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $1,371,628,180.92 and 592, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Delaware, not a Philadelphia-commute rollup

Place of performance DE is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Delaware (DE) excludes Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. A Philadelphia-coded award is Pennsylvania even if the corridor crosses the river. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Wilmington is unpublished as a metro share. $1,371,628,180.92 stays statewide. This packet does not split $1,371,628,180.92 by city, county, or named facility. 592 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Award stock versus contractor draws

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,371,628,180.92 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Delaware confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Delaware’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 592-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $1,371,628,180.92.

Citing DOT in Delaware

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $1,371,628,180.92 on 592 awards coded to Delaware. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates.

Prefer Department of Transportation in Delaware if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Delaware federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to DE. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the DE filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,371,628,180.92.

A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, Delaware, $1,371,628,180.92, and 592. The compact headline $1.37 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $2.32 million is $1,371,628,180.92 divided by 592. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Five hundred ninety-two awards sits in a mid-count DOT band. Modifications can add rows without each row being a new construction project. On this join the implied mean near $2.32 million should not be treated as a typical award size. Without a distribution, $1,371,628,180.92 can be dominated by a few rows even when 592 is large, or by those same few rows when 592 is small. This page will not pretend to know which pattern holds. It keeps repeating the two facts and the two keys: Department of Transportation (069) and Delaware (DE). Place of performance still does not mean every dollar was disbursed locally. Obligations still do not mean outlays. Wilmington is unpublished as a metro share. $1,371,628,180.92 stays statewide.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Delaware?

USAspending.gov records $1,371,628,180.92 across 592 awards with awarding agency 069 and a Delaware tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Department of Transportation in Delaware is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,371,628,180.92.

Is $1,371,628,180.92 a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates?

No. The packet publishes $1,371,628,180.92 and 592 awards for agency 069 inside DE coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this DOT file have 592 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × DE. Combined with $1,371,628,180.92, the average is about $2.32 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 592 is not unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Transportation in Delaware is the overlay. Delaware federal spending and Department of Transportation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,371,628,180.92. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.