Government Accountability Office federal obligations in Virginia

Agency 005 meeting Virginia

Government Accountability Office as awarding agency, Virginia as place-of-performance: 319 awards summing to $505,844,357.60. A Government Accountability Office award coded outside VA is out. An award in Virginia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, District of Columbia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. An Arlington-coded award with a District of Columbia place-of-performance tag is a different cell.

319 awards against $505,844,357.60 is a 319-award accountability-office file, not a report census. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 319 as 319 unique audit reports issued, named contractors, or engagement counts. Government Accountability Office in Virginia is the both-keys table. Virginia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Government Accountability Office is the agency book without a VA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Oversight folklore is unpublished. Do not invent contractors or engagement titles. Place-of-performance VA is not a Pentagon roster. The join is 005 × VA only. Correlation is not causation: Virginia did not cause $505,844,357.60 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 005 × VA only.

GAO dollars are not a report count

$505,844,357.60 does not measure audit reports issued, named contractors, or engagement counts. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 005 and an VA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 319 awards as a census of audit reports issued, named contractors, or engagement counts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Virginia federal spending or Government Accountability Office matched $505,844,357.60 and 319, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state GAO joins are other pairs, not addends.

Virginia, not a Northern Virginia-only map

Place of performance VA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, District of Columbia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. An Arlington-coded award with a District of Columbia place-of-performance tag is a different cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not split $505,844,357.60 by city, county, or named facility. 319 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Campaign-finance filings do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Three hundred nineteen obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $505,844,357.60 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Virginia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Virginia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 319 awards 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 $505,844,357.60.

Citing GAO in Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Government Accountability Office (agency 005) obligated $505,844,357.60 on 319 awards coded to Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as audit reports issued, named contractors, or engagement counts.

Prefer Government Accountability Office in Virginia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Virginia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to VA. Government Accountability Office is the 005 parent without the VA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $505,844,357.60.

A usable footnote names Government Accountability Office, Virginia, $505,844,357.60, and 319. The compact headline $505.8M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1,585,718.99 is $505,844,357.60 divided by 319. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has Government Accountability Office obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $505,844,357.60 across 319 awards with awarding agency 005 and a Virginia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Virginia’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Do 319 GAO awards mean 319 Virginia audits?

No. $505,844,357.60 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 005 × VA. It does not measure audit reports issued, named contractors, or engagement counts. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Why does this GAO file have 319 awards?

319 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $505,844,357.60 by 319 yields about $1,585,718.99 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where is the live table for Government Accountability Office in Virginia?

Government Accountability Office in Virginia is the overlay for both keys. Virginia federal spending is the all-agency Virginia hub. Government Accountability Office is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.