Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Pennsylvania
USAspending.gov records $16,966,054,003.50 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations under awarding agency 036 with place of performance in Pennsylvania, across 39,005 awards. The join names Veterans Affairs and Pennsylvania: one awarding-agency code and one state tag. It does not identify a medical center in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or elsewhere, and it does not say Harrisburg funded these awards. Obligations are not outlays. Average obligation is about $434,971 ($16,966,054,003.50 ÷ 39,005). The VA-in-Pennsylvania overlay restates this pair; the Pennsylvania statewide hub is the parent geography that includes every awarding agency, not 036 alone.
Key figures
- VA agency 036 shows $16,966,054,003.50 in Pennsylvania place-of-performance obligations on 39,005 awards.
- Mean obligation is about $434,971 per award.
- Pennsylvania is a geography tag, not a roster of VA facilities.
- The join is not the national VA budget and not all Pennsylvania federal spending.
- Figures are obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.
VA awards tagged to Pennsylvania
This page is the USAspending cell for awarding agency 036 and Pennsylvania (PA) place of performance. The $16,966,054,003.50 total sums matching obligations. Pennsylvania’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 PA.
Thirty-nine thousand five awards is a substantial row count. The count can include health-care contracts, construction, and other award types. The packet does not classify them. Inferring a single visn or medical center from the state tag would add a label the table does not carry.
Pennsylvania’s 39,005 VA records and $16,966,054,003.50 cover a long state with many facility names in ordinary speech. Ordinary speech is not 036 plus PA. Naming one medical center as the budget would over-specify 39,005 unlabeled rows. The $434,971 mean is a ratio across whatever mix VHA, VBA, and other VA offices put in the file.
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/pa/agencies/036/ is the table view of the same pair.
A national VA page will show a larger dollar total. Using $16,966,054,003.50 as the entire VA obligation book would drop the Pennsylvania filter. Using 39,005 as a headcount of Pennsylvania veterans would drop the award-record definition.
Pennsylvania as place of performance
Pennsylvania is state code PA. Place of performance can follow work in-state, a recipient address, or a reporting convention. Awards coded to New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, or West Virginia stay outside this $16,966,054,003.50 figure even when metro areas straddle those lines. The join does not reconstruct those metros.
Statewide Pennsylvania federal spending is the parent geography. VA is one awarding agency inside it. A large VA cell does not make Pennsylvania’s other agency cells small; those have their own facts.
A $434,971 mean in a 39,005-row book
Mean obligation of about $434,971 sits between high-volume micro-purchase books and sparse HHS assistance books. 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. 39,005 remains a count of award records, not 39,005 unique vendors and not 39,005 veterans served.
What the VA–Pennsylvania pair is not
Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania’s veteran population. It reports one USAspending join.
Continue from Department of Veterans Affairs in Pennsylvania for the overlay, Pennsylvania federal spending for all agencies, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 nationally, and All spending ties for other pairs.
How to read the Pennsylvania–VA numbers
Pennsylvania VA ($16,966,054,003.50, 39,005 awards) covers a state with many medical centers in ordinary speech. Ordinary speech is not the filter. The filter is 036 and PA. Naming Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or Wilkes-Barre as “the” budget would over-specify 39,005 undifferentiated records. Thirty-nine thousand five rows can mix health contracts, community care, construction, and benefits administration. The $434,971 mean is a ratio across that mix. It is not a typical inpatient stay cost.
New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia bound Pennsylvania. Philadelphia’s metro and Pittsburgh’s metro both cross lines in conversation. USAspending bins by PA. Non-PA tags stay out of $16,966,054,003.50.
Questions
- How much Veterans Affairs funding is obligated in Pennsylvania?
- USAspending records $16,966,054,003.50 in obligations for awarding agency 036 (Department of Veterans Affairs) with Pennsylvania place of performance, covering 39,005 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 PA place of performance. $16,966,054,003.50 and 39,005 awards cover whatever records carry both tags.
- What is the average VA award in Pennsylvania?
- Dividing $16,966,054,003.50 by 39,005 awards produces about $434,971 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 Pennsylvania place of performance is in the total. The packet does not split VHA, VBA, or other VA awarding offices.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.