Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Maryland

VA awards tagged to Maryland

This page is the USAspending cell for awarding agency 036 and Maryland (MD) place of performance. The $20,089,394,064.37 total sums matching obligations. Maryland’s all-agency hub includes Defense, HHS, and other departments; those are other columns. The national VA hub includes every state. This join is only 036 plus MD.

Thirteen thousand four hundred seventy-one awards is a substantial row count — thicker than sparse assistance books, thinner than some Defense cells with hundreds of thousands of rows. The count can include health-care contracts, construction, and other award types. The packet does not classify them. Inferring a single Baltimore or Bethesda facility from the state tag would add a label the table does not carry.

Maryland’s 13,471 VA records and $20,089,394,064.37 sit where DC, Virginia, and Maryland tags are routinely collapsed in National Capital Region talk. Collapse them in a citation and the number becomes wrong. This cell is MD and 036. A Walter Reed or Bethesda story that needs a facility identifier needs a different extract than this two-key join.

Awarding agency 036

Code 036 is the Department of Veterans Affairs in this extract. VHA, VBA, and NCA awarding offices can roll up under that parent. This packet does not split them. The overlay /states/md/agencies/036/ is the table view of the same pair.

A national VA page will show a larger dollar total. Using $20,089,394,064.37 as the entire VA obligation book would drop the Maryland filter. Using 13,471 as a headcount of Maryland veterans would drop the award-record definition.

Maryland as place of performance

Maryland is state code MD. Place of performance can follow work in-state, a recipient address, or a reporting convention. Awards coded to the District of Columbia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, or West Virginia stay outside this $20,089,394,064.37 figure even when the National Capital Region crosses those lines. The join does not reconstruct that region.

Statewide Maryland federal spending is the parent geography. VA is one awarding agency inside it. A large VA cell does not make Maryland’s other agency cells small; those have their own facts.

A $1.49 million mean in a 13,471-row book

Mean obligation of about $1.49 million sits between high-volume micro-purchase books and HHS cells with a few thousand large assistance awards. The comparison is table geometry. It is not a typical hospital claim and not a median. Community-care contracts, if present, would sit beside facility operations in the same undifferentiated total.

Net obligations can include de-obligations. 13,471 remains a count of award records, not 13,471 unique vendors and not 13,471 veterans served.

What the VA–Maryland pair is not

Maryland place-of-performance tagging does not mean FEC receipts funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. The page does not rank Maryland’s veteran population. It reports one USAspending join.

Continue from Department of Veterans Affairs in Maryland for the overlay, Maryland federal spending for all agencies, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 nationally, and All spending ties for other pairs.

How to read the Maryland–VA numbers

Maryland VA ($20,089,394,064.37, 13,471 awards) sits in the National Capital Region, where DC, Virginia, and Maryland tags are easy to mix in conversation. Mixing them in a citation is an error. This cell is MD and 036 only. District or Virginia VA dollars, if any, live on other pages. Thirteen thousand four hundred seventy-one rows can mix VHA health contracts, VBA, cemetery, and construction. The packet does not split them. A “Maryland VA hospital budget” quote from this page would over-specify the filter.

Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District surround Maryland. Bethesda-area work can be a short drive from a DC tag. Only MD-tagged awards enter $20,089,394,064.37. The join is not a map of VISN 5.

Questions

How much Veterans Affairs funding is obligated in Maryland?

USAspending records $20,089,394,064.37 in obligations for awarding agency 036 (Department of Veterans Affairs) with Maryland place of performance, covering 13,471 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not an outlay total and not the national VA figure.

Is this a specific VA medical center’s budget?

The facts do not name facilities. The filter is agency 036 plus MD place of performance. $20,089,394,064.37 and 13,471 awards cover whatever records carry both tags.

What is the average VA award in Maryland?

Dividing $20,089,394,064.37 by 13,471 awards produces about $1.49 million per award. That is a mean of the aggregate, not a median contract value.

Does this include VA health care and benefits together?

Anything coded to awarding agency 036 with Maryland place of performance is in the total. The packet does not split VHA, VBA, or other VA awarding offices.