USAspending.gov · federal contract spending · CY2024 · NE
Nebraska federal contract spending
Thin-tail place-of-performance jurisdiction on the states board — NE CY2024 awards with listed primes below.
- Corpus rank
- #47 of 56
- Contract awards (CY2024)
- $1.2B
- State code
- NE
- Top primes
- 11
Nebraska 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)
$1,158,312,891 16th percentile more award dollars than 16% 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
Nebraska place-of-performance awards
According to the USAspending.gov place-of-performance extract, Nebraska ranks #47 of 54 by calendar-2024 dollars ($1.2B) and #52 by 2023-to-2024 change (-45.9%). 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 Nebraska 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, Nebraska’s annual contract dollars by place of performance fell from $2.1B in 2023 to $1.2B in 2024. 45.9% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2023 at $2.1B.
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 Nebraska shows up on the thin-tail award band
$1.2B · #47 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.
Metgreen Solutions Inc is the largest listed prime with work attributed here at $149.9M, or 12.9% of this state’s calendar-2024 total. Top recipients in this extract tie to 9 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 Nebraska
Listed-prime dollar bands
Exclusive cut of the 11 named primes listed below ($517.4M combined). This is a share of the listed table only, not of Nebraska’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
- Puerto Rico $1.1B
- North Dakota $1.1B
- South Dakota $1.3B
- Rhode Island $1.0B
- Montana $1.3B
- 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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