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Medical Laboratories federal obligations in New Jersey (NAICS 621511)

The Medical Laboratories–New Jersey join on USAspending.gov sums to $148,704,041.99 in obligations. 1,394 award actions carry both the NAICS 621511 tag and the New Jersey geography tag. That is not cash already paid, and about $106,674.35 per award is a mean, not a typical lab-testing award.

Key figures

  • New Jersey medical laboratories overlay: $148,704,041.99, 1,394 awards, NAICS 621511.
  • Mean $106,674.35 is a ratio, not a typical lab-testing award.
  • Statewide tag — does not split Newark from Trenton or Camden.
  • Correlation is not causation.
  • New Jersey federal spending and NAICS 621511 are parents, not addends.

New Jersey place of performance for Medical Laboratories

NAICS 621511 and place-of-performance state NJ meet here. $148,704,041.99 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not nationwide Medical Laboratories, not New Jersey's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. New Jersey 621511 is medical laboratories, not hospitals and not a specimen-count. 621511 is Medical Laboratories, not hospitals or physician offices. Clinical-lab and diagnostic-testing folklore and port, pharma-corridor, and Turnpike folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not extra packet dollars and not a census of labs or specimens.

1,394 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — more than a few hundred rows can mix large instruments with smaller service awards. A long row list can mix small support payments with larger instruments. The join does not rank New Jersey against other states and does not name laboratories inside the extract. Unique vendors are unpublished.

Open New Jersey federal spending for the statewide rollup, NAICS 621511 for the industry hub, New Jersey industries for other NAICS in the same geography, and All spending ties for other pairs. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $148,704,041.99.

Award count 1,394 is a record count

Dividing $148,704,041.99 by 1,394 yields about $106,674.35 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical lab-testing award. A second medical laboratories join in another state uses the same NAICS and a different dollar total. Do not treat New Jersey's 621511 figure as a synonym for every Medical Laboratories award in the catalog.

Clinical-lab and diagnostic-testing folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Industry titles on NAICS 621511 are the place to see what a given line bought. Port, pharma-corridor, and turnpike folklore may explain a search path. It does not add dollars or laboratories.

Industry-wide medical laboratories versus this overlay

The industry hub for NAICS 621511 aggregates Medical Laboratories without requiring NJ geography. New Jersey federal spending aggregates all industries with New Jersey place of performance. New Jersey industries lists other NAICS in New Jersey. Only this tie applies both the 621511 filter and the New Jersey geography tag, which is why it cites 1,394 awards and $148,704,041.99.

Place of performance in New Jersey is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list NJ while later testing occurs in New York or Pennsylvania. medical laboratories awards coded to those places do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Newark. This packet does not split Newark from Trenton or Camden. Newark, Trenton, and Camden are reader landmarks, not packet subtotals.

Outlays are a different column

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $148,704,041.99 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 New Jersey over-reads the field. USAspending.gov NAICS aggregates by place of performance state are the source.

Award count 1,394 is a record count, not a payment count and not a unique-contractor census. Catalog lines, delivery orders, and modifications can each mint a row. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use New Jersey industries and NAICS 621511. Keep the obligation word on $148,704,041.99.

Do not treat port, pharma-corridor, and Turnpike folklore as a second NAICS

A large medical laboratories total in New Jersey does not mean the industry caused New Jersey's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between port, pharma-corridor, and Turnpike folklore and 621511 awards is expected; it is not a finding about waste or plant quality. No performance metric is in the packet. New Jersey 621511 is medical laboratories, not hospitals and not a specimen-count.

Keep $148,704,041.99 labeled as NAICS 621511 obligations with New Jersey place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. Do not claim that donations paid for $148,704,041.99 in New Jersey. No contractor or award-recipient names are in the packet, and none are invented.

Keep $148,704,041.99 labeled as a join

A clean footnote names NAICS 621511 (Medical Laboratories), New Jersey place of performance, $148,704,041.99 in obligations, and 1,394 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $148,704,041.99 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $106,674.35 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical lab-testing award.

New Jersey federal spending, NAICS 621511, New Jersey industries, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $148,704,041.99 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Newark-versus-Trenton folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Laboratories names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has NAICS 621511 obligated in New Jersey?
USAspending.gov records $148,704,041.99 in obligations for NAICS 621511 (Medical Laboratories) with New Jersey place of performance, covering 1,394 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not nationwide Medical Laboratories. NAICS 621511 is the industry key on the join.
Does this total include every New Jersey lab-testing award?
The extract lists 1,394 award actions totaling $148,704,041.99. Average obligation per award is about $106,674.35, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical lab-testing award. Unique laboratories are not published here. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Is this a Newark-only medical laboratories total?
No. $148,704,041.99 and 1,394 awards are statewide New Jersey place of performance. This packet does not split Newark from Trenton or Camden. Awards coded to New York or Pennsylvania are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Newark.
Where is the live medical laboratories–New Jersey table?
New Jersey federal spending is the state rollup. NAICS 621511 is the industry hub without a state filter. New Jersey industries lists other NAICS in New Jersey. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

USAspending.gov NAICS industry aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.