Process, Physical Distribution, And Logistics Consulting Services federal obligations in Virginia

Logistics consulting and Virginia as a pair

Process, Physical Distribution, And Logistics Consulting Services as the NAICS industry, Virginia as place of performance: 603 records summing to $1,072,447,576.52. An award in this industry coded outside VA is out. An award in Virginia from a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Virginia. Virginia place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Norfolk, Arlington, Richmond, or a Pentagon-adjacent ZIP.

603 awards is a mid-count industry cell. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows without each one being a new establishment. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 603 as 603 unique firms. The overlay path for this pair is the ties page for process, physical distribution, and logistics consulting in Virginia. Virginia federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 541614 is the industry book without a VA filter. Virginia industries lists other NAICS cells inside the state. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is about $1,778,520 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: Virginia did not “cause” $1,072,447,576.52 by existing as a large or small place, and NAICS 541614 did not “cause” the geography tag. Population, employment, and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 541614 × VA only.

Consulting, not freight volume

$1,072,447,576.52 does not measure warehouses operated, freight tons moved, or truck miles. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. NAICS 541614 covers process, physical distribution, and logistics consulting services: advice and related professional work on logistics and distribution as coded on the award. It is not the freight itself and not a census of warehouses or carriers. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 541614 and a VA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 603 awards as a census of tons shipped. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Virginia federal spending or the national NAICS 541614 table matched $1,072,447,576.52 and 603, 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.

Virginia statewide, not a local 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, North Carolina, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Virginia. Recipient headquarters can sit in another state while the place-of-performance tag remains VA. Contractor address is not this filter.

Virginia place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Norfolk, Arlington, Richmond, or a Pentagon-adjacent ZIP. This packet does not split $1,072,447,576.52 by city, county, installation, or named facility. 603 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. $1,072,447,576.52 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 603-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 $1,072,447,576.52. Campaign-finance filings are a different dataset; this page does not treat donations as funding these awards.

Citing Logistics consulting in Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Process, Physical Distribution, And Logistics Consulting Services (NAICS 541614) obligated $1,072,447,576.52 on 603 awards coded to Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as warehouses operated, freight tons moved, or truck miles.

Prefer the ties page for process, physical distribution, and logistics consulting in Virginia if a live overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Virginia federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to VA. NAICS 541614 is the industry parent without the VA filter. Virginia industries is the state’s industry index. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,072,447,576.52.

A usable footnote names Process, Physical Distribution, And Logistics Consulting Services, Virginia, NAICS 541614, $1,072,447,576.52, and 603. The compact headline $1.07B is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1,778,520 is $1,072,447,576.52 divided by 603. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated for process, physical distribution, and logistics consulting in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $1,072,447,576.52 across 603 awards with NAICS 541614 and a Virginia place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of tons shipped. Keep both keys when quoting $1,072,447,576.52.

Does this total measure freight moved?

No. The packet publishes $1,072,447,576.52 and 603 awards for NAICS 541614 inside VA coding. Warehouses operated, freight tons moved, or truck miles are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Virginia file have 603 awards?

That is the award-record count for 541614 × VA. Combined with $1,072,447,576.52, the average is about $1,778,520. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 603 is not unique tons shipped. Later ingests can revise the count.

Where is the live table?

Virginia federal spending and NAICS 541614 are the parents, not addends. Virginia industries lists other NAICS cells in the state. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,072,447,576.52. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.