USAspending.gov · federal contract spending · CY2024 · ND
North Dakota federal contract spending
Thin-tail place-of-performance jurisdiction on the states board — ND CY2024 awards with listed primes below.
- Corpus rank
- #49 of 56
- Contract awards (CY2024)
- $1.1B
- State code
- ND
- Top primes
- 10
North Dakota 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)
$1,090,201,152 13th percentile more award dollars than 13% 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
North Dakota place-of-performance awards
According to the USAspending.gov place-of-performance extract, North Dakota ranks #49 of 54 by calendar-2024 dollars ($1.1B) and #3 by 2023-to-2024 change (+46.6%). 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 North Dakota 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, North Dakota’s annual contract dollars by place of performance rose from $743.6M in 2023 to $1.1B in 2024. 46.6% 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 North Dakota shows up on the thin-tail award band
$1.1B · #49 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.
Noridian Healthcare Solutions, LLC is the largest listed prime with work attributed here at $305.7M, or 28.0% 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 North Dakota
Listed-prime dollar bands
Exclusive cut of the 10 named primes listed below ($602.9M combined). This is a share of the listed table only, not of North Dakota’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
- Rhode Island $1.0B
- Nebraska $1.2B
- South Dakota $1.3B
- Montana $1.3B
- Vermont $793.0M
Similar awarding-agency span
North Dakota lists top recipients tied to 2 awarding agencies in the available linked extract.
- Alaska 2 agencies
- Delaware 2 agencies
- Michigan 2 agencies
- Ohio 2 agencies
- Virgin Islands 2 agencies
- Connecticut 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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