Other Heavy And Civil Engineering Construction federal obligations in California

Heavy civil construction and California as a pair

Other Heavy And Civil Engineering Construction as the NAICS industry, California as place of performance: 353 records summing to $966,040,619.68. An award in this industry coded outside CA is out. An award in California from a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. California (CA) excludes Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in California. California place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Los Angeles, San Diego, the Bay Area, or a named facility.

353 awards is a thin industry cell. A small row count can still sum to a large obligation total when individual instruments are large. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 353 as 353 unique establishments. The overlay path for this pair is the ties page for other heavy and civil engineering construction in California. California federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 237990 is the industry book without a CA filter. California industries lists other NAICS cells inside the state. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is about $2,736,659 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. On a thin file the mean is sensitive to a handful of large rows. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: California did not “cause” $966,040,619.68 by existing as a large or small place, and NAICS 237990 did not “cause” the geography tag. Population, employment, and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 237990 × CA only.

Heavy civil coding, not a project census

$966,040,619.68 does not measure miles of highway, dams completed, or marine structures placed in service. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. NAICS 237990 covers other heavy and civil engineering construction: heavy civil work not classified in more specific 237 codes, as tagged on the award. It is not a miles-of-infrastructure series and not a census of projects opened. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 237990 and a CA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 353 awards as a census of projects completed. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If California federal spending or the national NAICS 237990 table matched $966,040,619.68 and 353, the join would be pointless. Use the ties page when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state cells for the same NAICS are other pairs, not addends.

California statewide, not a local map

Place of performance CA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. California (CA) excludes Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in California. Recipient headquarters can sit in another state while the place-of-performance tag remains CA. Contractor address is not this filter.

California place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Los Angeles, San Diego, the Bay Area, or a named facility. This packet does not split $966,040,619.68 by city, county, installation, or named facility. 353 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Do not infer a regional ranking from a single state×industry cell.

Obligations still are not outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $966,040,619.68 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in California confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

California’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 353-award 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 $966,040,619.68. Campaign-finance filings are a different dataset; this page does not treat donations as funding these awards.

Citing Heavy civil construction in California

Cite USAspending.gov: Other Heavy And Civil Engineering Construction (NAICS 237990) obligated $966,040,619.68 on 353 awards coded to California. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as miles of highway, dams completed, or marine structures placed in service.

Prefer the ties page for other heavy and civil engineering construction in California if a live overlay has refreshed after an ingest. California federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to CA. NAICS 237990 is the industry parent without the CA filter. California industries is the state’s industry index. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $966,040,619.68.

A usable footnote names Other Heavy And Civil Engineering Construction, California, NAICS 237990, $966,040,619.68, and 353. The compact headline $966M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $2,736,659 is $966,040,619.68 divided by 353. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated for other heavy and civil engineering construction in California?

USAspending.gov records $966,040,619.68 across 353 awards with NAICS 237990 and a California place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of projects completed. Keep both keys when quoting $966,040,619.68.

Does this total measure miles of infrastructure built?

No. The packet publishes $966,040,619.68 and 353 awards for NAICS 237990 inside CA coding. Miles of highway, dams completed, or marine structures placed in service are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this California file have 353 awards?

That is the award-record count for 237990 × CA. Combined with $966,040,619.68, the average is about $2,736,659. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 353 is not unique projects completed. Later ingests can revise the count.

Where is the live table?

California federal spending and NAICS 237990 are the parents, not addends. California industries lists other NAICS cells in the state. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $966,040,619.68. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.