Engineering Services federal obligations in Virginia

What NAICS 541330 and Virginia share on one row

NAICS 541330 and place-of-performance state VA meet here. $5,359,790,116 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not every federal award in Virginia, not the nationwide Engineering Services total, and not cash already paid. Northern-Virginia and Hampton Roads engineering-firm folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not a PE-license census and not a project list.

14,943 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — tens of thousands of award actions behind a multi-billion obligation total. A long row list can mix small task orders with larger instruments. The join does not rank Virginia against other states and does not name firms inside the extract.

Open Virginia federal spending for the filtered table, NAICS 541330 for the next hub, Virginia industries for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Engineering-services actions under a Virginia geography tag

Dividing $5,359,790,116 by 14,943 yields about $358,682 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical A-E task order. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; the listed count is not a unique-firm census. Firm names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Northern-virginia and hampton roads engineering-firm folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Recipient rows live on the industry and state hubs, not in this narrative’s extra columns.

NAICS 541330 without a Virginia overlay is a different total

The NAICS 541330 page aggregates NAICS 541330 without requiring VA geography. The Virginia federal spending page aggregates all agencies and industries with Virginia place of performance. Virginia industries lists other industry cells in the same state. Only this tie applies both the 541330 filter and the VA filter, which is why it cites 14,943 awards and $5,359,790,116.

Place of performance in Virginia is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list VA while design work occurs in Maryland or D.C. 541330 awards coded to those jurisdictions do not sit in this total even if the firm’s mailroom is in Alexandria. This packet does not split Northern Virginia from Hampton Roads or Richmond.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $5,359,790,116 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Virginia over-reads the field.

Award count 14,943 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use Virginia federal spending, NAICS 541330, and Virginia industries. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large 541330 total in Virginia does not mean engineering firms caused Virginia’s contractor mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between Beltway geography and engineering awards is expected; it is not a finding about design quality or waste.

Keep $5,359,790,116 labeled as NAICS 541330 obligations with Virginia place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An industry name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Virginia–541330 pair

A clean footnote names NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), Virginia place of performance, $5,359,790,116 in obligations, and 14,943 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $5,359,790,116 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $358,682 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical A-E task order.

Virginia federal spending, NAICS 541330, Virginia industries, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $5,359,790,116 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Northern Virginia-versus-Hampton Roads folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Firm names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has NAICS 541330 obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $5,359,790,116 in obligations for NAICS 541330 with Virginia place of performance, covering 14,943 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not the nationwide Engineering services total. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does this total include every Virginia engineering firm?

The extract lists 14,943 award actions totaling $5,359,790,116. Average obligation per award is about $358,682, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical A-E task order. Unique recipients are not published here, and the row count is not a company census. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Northern Virginia-only engineering total?

No. $5,359,790,116 and 14,943 awards are statewide Virginia place of performance. This packet does not split Northern Virginia from Hampton Roads or Richmond. A regional cut would be a different extract, not this NAICS–state join. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where are the live Virginia and NAICS 541330 tables?

Virginia federal spending shows statewide spending. NAICS 541330 shows NAICS 541330 without a state filter. Virginia industries lists other Virginia industry cells. All spending ties lists other pairs. This page is the join of those two filters, not a restatement of either hub. Original filings remain on the source sites.