Government Accountability Office obligations in Computer Systems Design Services (NAICS 541512)

GAO × 541512 is a systems-design join, not an audit-IT census

Government Accountability Office as awarding agency 005, Computer Systems Design Services as NAICS 541512: 8 records summing to $215,360,383.68. The pair is awarding-agency 005 crossed with NAICS 541512, not an audit-technology inventory and not GAO’s thicker other-computer-related (541519) file. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking, and not a claim that 8 awards equal that many GAO systems, unique integrators, or named audit tools. A Government Accountability Office award coded to a different NAICS is out. A 541512 award from a different awarding agency is out even if the work sounds related.

Other computer-related services (541519) for GAO is a different join. 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. Government Accountability Office is the agency parent. NAICS 541512 is the industry parent. All agencies lists awarding agencies. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

Eight GAO rows behind a $215.4 million 541512 book

Mean obligation is about $26.92 million if $215,360,383.68 were divided evenly across 8 lines. That ratio is a quotient of two packet facts, not a published typical award. Eight awards against $215.4 million is a thin systems-design file with a high implied mean, not a row per GAO application. Award count is a row count, including possible orders and modifications. It is not a census of GAO systems, unique integrators, or named audit tools.

Eight awards are a record count, not a vendor roster. This page will not invent recipient names. Named integrators and GAO platforms are unpublished. Eight awards are not eight unique systems. The $215,360,383.68 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. GAO’s full awarding-agency book is $765,932,457.62; mixing that parent into $215,360,383.68 invents a roll-up the packet never computed.

GAO systems-design obligations are not audit tools already live

An obligation is a recorded commitment. An outlay is a payment. The $215,360,383.68 headline is the obligation sum, not design work already delivered. No fiscal year is attached in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Citing the figure as cash already sent under Computer Systems Design Services confuses two USAspending concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Named integrators and GAO platforms are unpublished. Eight awards are not eight unique systems. Unique recipients are unpublished. Keep the obligation label on $215,360,383.68. FEC filings and USAspending awards are different datasets, even when the same vendor name appears in both systems.

What the GAO–541512 pair leaves unpublished

The extract has no roster of GAO systems, unique integrators, or named audit tools. Facts remain $215,360,383.68, 8 awards, NAICS 541512, and Government Accountability Office (agency 005). This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling Government Accountability Office × NAICS joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score. Other computer-related services (541519) for GAO is a different join.

Government Accountability Office places agency 005 among other awarding agencies. NAICS 541512 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 GAO’s full awarding-agency book the packet never computed. The $215,360,383.68 figure is the tagged pair only.

Citing GAO with computer systems design

A clean footnote names Government Accountability Office (agency 005), Computer Systems Design Services (NAICS 541512), $215,360,383.68 in obligations, and 8 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Mean dollars per action remain about $26.92 million. Quote Government Accountability Office if you need every industry under agency 005, and quote NAICS 541512 if you need the code without the GAO filter. Eight awards totaling $215,360,383.68 remain a NAICS 541512 file, not a census of GAO systems, unique integrators, or named audit tools. Inspect named award lines on USAspending.gov rather than inferring inventories the packet omitted.

Questions

How much has Government Accountability Office obligated in NAICS 541512?

USAspending.gov shows $215,360,383.68 in obligations for awarding agency 005 tagged to Computer Systems Design Services (NAICS 541512), across 8 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not GAO’s full awarding-agency book. Other NAICS codes are outside this join unless they also carry 541512.

Do 8 awards equal 8 GAO computer systems?

No. Award count is a row count of award actions and can include orders and modifications. It is not a census of GAO systems, unique integrators, or named audit tools. The packet does not name recipients. The implied mean near $26.92 million is a ratio, not a typical unit. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is this GAO’s full awarding-agency book?

No. The join is awarding agency 005 crossed with NAICS 541512. The agency parent in this packet is $765,932,457.62. Related industries on other NAICS numbers are not inside $215,360,383.68. Other computer-related services (541519) for GAO is a different join.

Is the Computer Systems Design Services total already paid by GAO?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $215,360,383.68 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.