National Archives and Records Administration obligations in Custom Computer Programming Services (NAICS 541511)

NARA × 541511 is a custom-programming join, not a digitization census

National Archives and Records Administration as awarding agency 088, Custom Computer Programming Services as NAICS 541511: 33 records summing to $84,648,598.54. The pair is awarding-agency 088 crossed with NAICS 541511, not a list of digitization projects and not NARA’s entire IT-and-records book. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking, and not a claim that 33 awards equal that many codebases, unique vendors, or named NARA applications. A National Archives and Records Administration award coded to a different NAICS is out. A 541511 award from a different awarding agency is out even if the work sounds related.

Other computer-related services (541519) and systems design (541512) for NARA sit 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. National Archives and Records Administration is the agency parent. NAICS 541511 is the industry parent. All agencies lists awarding agencies. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

33 NARA rows in the 541511 software bin

Mean obligation is about $2.57 million if $84,648,598.54 were divided evenly across 33 lines. That ratio is a quotient of two packet facts, not a published typical award. Thirty-three awards against $84.6 million is a short custom-programming roster, not a repository of named applications. Award count is a row count, including possible orders and modifications. It is not a census of codebases, unique vendors, or named NARA applications.

Thirty-three awards are a record count, not a vendor roster. This page will not invent recipient names. Named vendors and electronic-records platforms are unpublished. Thirty-three awards are not thirty-three unique programs. The $84,648,598.54 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. NARA’s full awarding-agency book is $860,857,433.60; mixing that parent into $84,648,598.54 invents a roll-up the packet never computed.

NARA programming obligations are not code already shipped

An obligation is a recorded commitment. An outlay is a payment. The $84,648,598.54 headline is the obligation sum, not software 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 Custom Computer Programming Services confuses two USAspending concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Named vendors and electronic-records platforms are unpublished. Thirty-three awards are not thirty-three unique programs. Unique recipients are unpublished. Keep the obligation label on $84,648,598.54. FEC filings and USAspending awards are different datasets, even when the same vendor name appears in both systems.

What the NARA–541511 table omits

The extract has no roster of codebases, unique vendors, or named NARA applications. Facts remain $84,648,598.54, 33 awards, NAICS 541511, and National Archives and Records Administration (agency 088). This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling National Archives and Records Administration × NAICS joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score. Other computer-related services (541519) and systems design (541512) for NARA sit on other pages.

National Archives and Records Administration places agency 088 among other awarding agencies. NAICS 541511 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 NARA’s full awarding-agency book the packet never computed. The $84,648,598.54 figure is the tagged pair only.

Citing National Archives with custom programming

A clean footnote names National Archives and Records Administration (agency 088), Custom Computer Programming Services (NAICS 541511), $84,648,598.54 in obligations, and 33 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Mean dollars per action remain about $2.57 million. Quote National Archives and Records Administration if you need every industry under agency 088, and quote NAICS 541511 if you need the code without the NARA filter. Thirty-three awards totaling $84,648,598.54 remain a NAICS 541511 file, not a census of codebases, unique vendors, or named NARA applications. Inspect named award lines on USAspending.gov rather than inferring inventories the packet omitted.

Questions

How much has National Archives and Records Administration obligated in NAICS 541511?

USAspending.gov shows $84,648,598.54 in obligations for awarding agency 088 tagged to Custom Computer Programming Services (NAICS 541511), across 33 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not NARA’s full awarding-agency book. Other NAICS codes are outside this join unless they also carry 541511.

Do 33 awards equal 33 NARA software products?

No. Award count is a row count of award actions and can include orders and modifications. It is not a census of codebases, unique vendors, or named NARA applications. The packet does not name recipients. The implied mean near $2.57 million is a ratio, not a typical unit. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is this NARA’s full awarding-agency book?

No. The join is awarding agency 088 crossed with NAICS 541511. The agency parent in this packet is $860,857,433.60. Related industries on other NAICS numbers are not inside $84,648,598.54. Other computer-related services (541519) and systems design (541512) for NARA sit on other pages.

Is the Custom Computer Programming Services total already paid by NARA?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $84,648,598.54 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.