Federal Trade Commission obligations in Other Scientific And Technical Consulting Services (NAICS 541690)

FTC × 541690 is a scientific-consulting join, not a merger-review census

Federal Trade Commission as awarding agency 029, Other Scientific And Technical Consulting Services as NAICS 541690: 106 records summing to $63,297,113.95. The pair is awarding-agency 029 crossed with NAICS 541690, not merger-review hours and not the FTC’s thicker other-computer-related (541519) book. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking, and not a claim that 106 awards equal that many matters, unique consultants, or named FTC cases. A Federal Trade Commission award coded to a different NAICS is out. A 541690 award from a different awarding agency is out even if the work sounds related.

Other computer-related services and management consulting for the FTC live on other pages. Correlation between this obligation sum and mission outcomes is not causation. Those outcomes are not in the packet. Campaign contributions recorded on FEC.gov do not fund this USAspending cell. Federal Trade Commission is the agency parent. NAICS 541690 is the industry parent. All agencies lists awarding agencies. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

106 FTC rows in the 541690 consulting NAICS

Mean obligation is about $597,143 if $63,297,113.95 were divided evenly across 106 lines. That ratio is a quotient of two packet facts, not a published typical award. One hundred six awards against $63.3 million is a mid-thickness consulting file, not a row per investigation. Award count is a row count, including possible orders and modifications. It is not a census of matters, unique consultants, or named FTC cases.

One hundred six awards are a record count, not a vendor roster. This page will not invent recipient names. Named experts and matters are unpublished. One hundred six awards are not one hundred six unique consultants. The $63,297,113.95 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. The FTC’s full awarding-agency book is $630,178,065.48; mixing that parent into $63,297,113.95 invents a roll-up the packet never computed.

FTC consulting obligations are not economist hours already billed

An obligation is a recorded commitment. An outlay is a payment. The $63,297,113.95 headline is the obligation sum, not expert hours already billed. No fiscal year is attached in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Citing the figure as cash already sent under Other Scientific And Technical Consulting Services confuses two USAspending concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Named experts and matters are unpublished. One hundred six awards are not one hundred six unique consultants. Unique recipients are unpublished. Keep the obligation label on $63,297,113.95. FEC filings and USAspending awards are different datasets, even when the same vendor name appears in both systems.

What the FTC–541690 cell omits

The extract has no roster of matters, unique consultants, or named FTC cases. Facts remain $63,297,113.95, 106 awards, NAICS 541690, and Federal Trade Commission (agency 029). This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling Federal Trade Commission × NAICS joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score. Other computer-related services and management consulting for the FTC live on other pages.

Federal Trade Commission places agency 029 among other awarding agencies. NAICS 541690 is the national industry hub. All agencies is the agency index. All spending ties indexes other awarding-agency × NAICS pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of the FTC’s full awarding-agency book the packet never computed. The $63,297,113.95 figure is the tagged pair only.

Citing the Federal Trade Commission with 541690

A clean footnote names Federal Trade Commission (agency 029), Other Scientific And Technical Consulting Services (NAICS 541690), $63,297,113.95 in obligations, and 106 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Mean dollars per action remain about $597,143. Quote Federal Trade Commission if you need every industry under agency 029, and quote NAICS 541690 if you need the code without the FTC filter. One hundred six awards totaling $63,297,113.95 remain a NAICS 541690 file, not a census of matters, unique consultants, or named FTC cases. Inspect named award lines on USAspending.gov rather than inferring inventories the packet omitted.

Questions

How much has Federal Trade Commission obligated in NAICS 541690?

USAspending.gov shows $63,297,113.95 in obligations for awarding agency 029 tagged to Other Scientific And Technical Consulting Services (NAICS 541690), across 106 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the FTC’s full awarding-agency book. Other NAICS codes are outside this join unless they also carry 541690.

Do 106 awards equal 106 FTC expert witnesses?

No. Award count is a row count of award actions and can include orders and modifications. It is not a census of matters, unique consultants, or named FTC cases. The packet does not name recipients. The implied mean near $597,143 is a ratio, not a typical unit. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is this the FTC’s full awarding-agency book?

No. The join is awarding agency 029 crossed with NAICS 541690. The agency parent in this packet is $630,178,065.48. Related industries on other NAICS numbers are not inside $63,297,113.95. Other computer-related services and management consulting for the FTC live on other pages.

Is the Other Scientific And Technical Consulting Services total already paid by FTC?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $63,297,113.95 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Completed activity and remaining balances are not published in this packet. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.