USAspending.gov · NAICS 444130 · Retail Trade
Hardware Stores
Mid-pack NAICS industry on the industries board — code 444130 in Retail Trade.
- CY2024 awards
- $93.7M
- Corpus rank
- #296 of 499
- Award plate
- LIGHT
- Sector
- RETAIL · WEIGHTY
Hardware Stores federal industry awards
Hardware Stores sits in the mid-pack on the NAICS award board at $93.7M CY2024 (#296 of 499).
Hardware Stores takes 14.6% of RETAIL sector dollars in the calendar-2024 window, a heavy share within its two-digit NAICS sector. See /methodology/#naics.
Year-over-year change, 2019–2024
Across the calendar years on file, Hardware Stores’s annual contract dollars rose from $92.6M in 2023 to $93.7M in 2024. 1.2% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2019 at $157.1M.
Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures use the same NAICS classification basis as the CY2024 headline above.
How Hardware Stores sits in the mid-pack award band
$93.7M · #296 of 499 by CY2024 industry awards , mid-pack on the NAICS award board (same order as the industries listing). See methodology.
$93.7M under NAICS 444130 · #296 of 499 , LIGHT · RETAIL · WEIGHTY · SLIP. 2019→2024: 221→296 of 499 (0.028%→0.012% of tracked industry dollars) ; #3/3 in RETAIL. That is a 75-place move over 5 years. Nearest ABS peer: Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing at $93.1M (LIGHT).
Calendar-2024 actions under NAICS 444130 count as opportunity size, not firm revenue. This code carries a heavy share of its RETAIL sector window. Populations, lag, and NAICS/SBA rules: methodology.
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Mid-scale industry peers nationwide
Cross-sector peers from the USAspending NAICS extract: nearest mid-scale calendar-2024 award dollars and nearest sector-weight share. Not recommendations.
Closest CY2024 award dollars
- Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing $93.1M
- Passenger Car Leasing $92.2M
- Nuclear Electric Power Generation $95.3M
- Switchgear and Switchboard Apparatus Manufactur… $95.4M
- Jewelry, Watch, Precious Stone, $96.0M
- Industrial Launderers $89.9M
Similar sector weight
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 14.7% · $747.0M
- Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing 14.8% · $4.5B
- Residential Property Managers 14.2% · $242.0M
- Computer Systems Design Services 13.7% · $33.3B
- Flight Training 15.7% · $794.6M
- Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipme… 16.1% · $786.2M
Disclaimer: Data from USAspending.gov public records. For informational purposes only. Industry spending amounts are aggregated from contract awards and may not reflect the most current data. Always verify with official sources.
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