USAspending.gov · federal contract spending · CY2024 · MT
Montana federal contract spending
Thin-tail place-of-performance jurisdiction on the states board — MT CY2024 awards with listed primes below.
- Corpus rank
- #45 of 56
- Contract awards (CY2024)
- $1.3B
- State code
- MT
- Top primes
- 10
Montana 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)
$1,312,255,612 20th percentile more award dollars than 20% 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
Montana place-of-performance awards
According to the USAspending.gov place-of-performance extract, Montana ranks #45 of 54 by calendar-2024 dollars ($1.3B) and #6 by 2023-to-2024 change (+39.6%). 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 Montana 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, Montana’s annual contract dollars by place of performance rose from $939.9M in 2023 to $1.3B in 2024. 39.6% 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 Montana shows up on the thin-tail award band
$1.3B · #45 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.
Archer Western Federal Jv is the largest listed prime with work attributed here at $218.6M, or 16.7% of this state’s calendar-2024 total. Top recipients in this extract tie to 1 awarding agency — 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 Montana
Listed-prime dollar bands
Exclusive cut of the 10 named primes listed below ($602.3M combined). This is a share of the listed table only, not of Montana’s full place-of-performance total, and not a forecast.
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
- South Dakota $1.3B
- Nebraska $1.2B
- Puerto Rico $1.1B
- North Dakota $1.1B
- Rhode Island $1.0B
- Vermont $793.0M
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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