USAspending.gov · federal contract spending · CY2024 · DE
Delaware federal contract spending
Thin-tail place-of-performance jurisdiction on the states board — DE CY2024 awards with listed primes below.
- Corpus rank
- #53 of 56
- Contract awards (CY2024)
- $362.4M
- State code
- DE
- Top primes
- 5
Delaware vs all states by place-of-performance award dollars
Where this state's calendar-2024 USAspending place-of-performance total sits among every jurisdiction with awards (coverage density, not contractor quality)
$362,420,504 5th percentile more award dollars than 5% of 56 states
States, banded by CY place-of-performance award dollars
Each bar is a $1-wide band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source USAspending.gov · 2026-08-14
Delaware place-of-performance awards
According to the USAspending.gov place-of-performance extract, Delaware ranks #53 of 54 by calendar-2024 dollars ($362.4M) and #11 by 2023-to-2024 change (+21.6%). Virginia is #1 of 54 by calendar-2024 place-of-performance dollars ($111.4B) at 2023-to-2024 #27 (+1.6%) ≠ Wisconsin #1 2023-to-2024 change (+60.8%) at dollars #24 ($8.7B).
PlainFedContract attributes awards to Delaware by USAspending.gov primary place of performance (where the work ran), not contractor headquarters. Calendar-2024 dollars stay separate from lifetime recipient totals and complete-FY national pools; see /methodology/#populations/. Not a forecast of future awards.
Year-over-year change, 2019–2024
Across the calendar years on file, Delaware’s annual contract dollars by place of performance rose from $298.0M in 2023 to $362.4M in 2024. 21.6% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2020 at $812.3M.
Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures use the same place-of-performance basis as the CY2024 headline above.
How Delaware shows up on the thin-tail award band
$362.4M · #53 of 56 by CY2024 place-of-performance awards (bottom quartile nationally) — thin-tail on the place-of-performance board (same order as the states listing). See methodology.
Helicopter Transport Services, LLC is the largest listed prime with work attributed here at $30.8M, or 8.5% of this state’s calendar-2024 total. Top recipients in this extract tie to 2 awarding agencies — a narrow awarding-agency span for the listed primes. Totals use primary place of performance (where the work ran), not contractor headquarters. Methodology.
Top Contractors in Delaware
| # | Contractor | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Helicopter Transport Services, LLC | |
| 2 | Agilent Technologies Inc | |
| 3 | Cms Corporation | |
| 4 | Dawson Enterprises, Inc. | |
| 5 | Education & Training Resources LLC |
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Thin-tail state peers nationwide
Cross-state peers on the place-of-performance extract: nearest thin-tail obligation totals and comparable awarding-agency span. Not regional neighbors.
Closest place-of-performance obligations
- Wyoming $612.1M
- Northern Mariana Islands $94.8M
- Virgin Islands $54.0M
- American Samoa $22.3M
- Vermont $793.0M
- Rhode Island $1.0B
Similar awarding-agency span
Delaware lists top recipients tied to 2 awarding agencies in the available linked extract.
- Alaska 2 agencies
- Michigan 2 agencies
- North Dakota 2 agencies
- Ohio 2 agencies
- Connecticut 3 agencies
- Guam 3 agencies
Disclaimer: USAspending.gov public records for a thin-tail jurisdiction. Small award totals can move sharply with a single prime; always verify with official Treasury extracts.
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