Engineering Services federal obligations in Texas

Engineering services and Texas as a pair

Engineering Services as the NAICS industry, Texas as place of performance: 2,031 records summing to $497,722,202.05. An award in this industry coded outside TX is out. An award in Texas from a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. Texas (TX) excludes New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Texas. Texas place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, or a border crossing.

2,031 awards is a high-count industry cell. Volume can rise on task orders and modifications without each row being a new facility. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 2,031 as 2,031 unique establishments. The overlay path for this pair is the ties page for engineering services in Texas. Texas federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 541330 is the industry book without a TX filter. Texas industries lists other NAICS cells inside the state. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is about $245,063 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: Texas did not “cause” $497,722,202.05 by existing as a large or small place, and NAICS 541330 did not “cause” the geography tag. Population, employment, and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 541330 × TX only.

Engineering services, not construction put in place

$497,722,202.05 does not measure engineers employed, drawings delivered, or construction put in place. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. NAICS 541330 covers engineering services: professional engineering work as coded on the award. It is not construction (a different NAICS family) and not a census of licensed engineers. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 541330 and a TX place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 2,031 awards as a census of engineers employed. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Texas federal spending or the national NAICS 541330 table matched $497,722,202.05 and 2,031, the join would be pointless. Use the ties page when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state cells for the same NAICS are other pairs, not addends.

Texas statewide, not a local map

Place of performance TX is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Texas (TX) excludes New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Texas. Recipient headquarters can sit in another state while the place-of-performance tag remains TX. Contractor address is not this filter.

Texas place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, or a border crossing. This packet does not split $497,722,202.05 by city, county, installation, or named facility. 2,031 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Do not infer a regional ranking from a single state×industry cell.

Obligations still are not outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $497,722,202.05 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Texas confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Texas’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 2,031-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 $497,722,202.05. Campaign-finance filings are a different dataset; this page does not treat donations as funding these awards.

Citing Engineering services in Texas

Cite USAspending.gov: Engineering Services (NAICS 541330) obligated $497,722,202.05 on 2,031 awards coded to Texas. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as engineers employed, drawings delivered, or construction put in place.

Prefer the ties page for engineering services in Texas if a live overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Texas federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to TX. NAICS 541330 is the industry parent without the TX filter. Texas industries is the state’s industry index. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $497,722,202.05.

A usable footnote names Engineering Services, Texas, NAICS 541330, $497,722,202.05, and 2,031. The compact headline $498M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $245,063 is $497,722,202.05 divided by 2,031. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated for engineering services in Texas?

USAspending.gov records $497,722,202.05 across 2,031 awards with NAICS 541330 and a Texas place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of engineers employed. Keep both keys when quoting $497,722,202.05.

Does this total count engineers or construction completed?

No. The packet publishes $497,722,202.05 and 2,031 awards for NAICS 541330 inside TX coding. Engineers employed, drawings delivered, or construction put in place are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Texas file have 2,031 awards?

That is the award-record count for 541330 × TX. Combined with $497,722,202.05, the average is about $245,063. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 2,031 is not unique engineers employed. Later ingests can revise the count.

Where is the live table?

Texas federal spending and NAICS 541330 are the parents, not addends. Texas industries lists other NAICS cells in the state. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $497,722,202.05. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.