USAspending.gov · federal contract spending · CY2024 · DC
District of Columbia federal contract spending
Top-third USAspending place-of-performance jurisdiction by calendar-2024 contract dollars — DC extract with listed primes below.
- Corpus rank
- #5 of 56
- Contract awards (CY2024)
- $36.8B
- State code
- DC
- Top primes
- 20
District of Columbia 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)
$36,823,548,005 Top 9% more award dollars than 91% 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
District of Columbia place-of-performance awards
According to the USAspending.gov place-of-performance extract, District of Columbia ranks #5 of 54 by calendar-2024 dollars ($36.8B) and #18 by 2023-to-2024 change (+8.8%). 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 District of Columbia 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, District of Columbia’s annual contract dollars by place of performance rose from $33.8B in 2023 to $36.8B in 2024. 8.8% vs 2023
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 District of Columbia leads the CY2024 place-of-performance board
$36.8B · #5 of 56 by CY2024 place-of-performance awards (top 10% nationally) — a top-third jurisdiction by calendar-2024 place-of-performance contract dollars (same board as the states listing). See methodology.
Deloitte Consulting LLP is the largest listed prime with work attributed here at $1.2B, or 3.2% of this state’s calendar-2024 total. Top recipients in this extract tie to 27 awarding agencies — a broad awarding-agency span for the listed primes. Totals use primary place of performance (where the work ran), not contractor headquarters. Methodology.
Top Contractors in District of Columbia
Listed-prime dollar bands
Exclusive cut of the 20 named primes listed below ($10.9B combined). This is a share of the listed table only, not of District of Columbia’s full place-of-performance total, and not a forecast.
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Mega-scale state peers nationwide
Cross-state peers on the USAspending place-of-performance extract: nearest mega-scale obligation totals and broadest awarding-agency span among listed primes. Not regional neighbors.
Closest place-of-performance obligations
- Florida $30.6B
- Pennsylvania $27.1B
- Maryland $48.2B
- Connecticut $22.7B
- Arizona $19.3B
- Massachusetts $18.9B
Similar awarding-agency span
District of Columbia lists top recipients tied to 27 awarding agencies in the available linked extract.
- Virginia 27 agencies
- North Carolina 19 agencies
- West Virginia 16 agencies
- Georgia 15 agencies
- Rhode Island 14 agencies
- California 13 agencies
Disclaimer: USAspending.gov public records for a top-tier place-of-performance jurisdiction. Dollar totals aggregate CY2024 awards where work ran in District of Columbia; verify modifications with Treasury before relying on a single figure.
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