USAspending.gov · federal contract spending · CY2024 · WI
Wisconsin federal contract spending
Mid-pack place-of-performance jurisdiction on the states board — WI CY2024 awards with listed primes below.
- Corpus rank
- #24 of 56
- Contract awards (CY2024)
- $8.7B
- State code
- WI
- Top primes
- 13
Wisconsin 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)
$8,741,541,695 Top 43% more award dollars than 57% 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
Wisconsin place-of-performance awards
According to the USAspending.gov place-of-performance extract, Wisconsin is #1 of 54 by 2023-to-2024 change (+60.8%) at dollars #24 ≠ Virginia #1 calendar-2024 dollars ($111.4B) at change #27.
PlainFedContract attributes awards to Wisconsin 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, Wisconsin’s annual contract dollars by place of performance rose from $5.4B in 2023 to $8.7B in 2024. 60.8% 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 Wisconsin sits in the mid-pack award band
$8.7B · #24 of 56 by CY2024 place-of-performance awards (above the median) — mid-pack on the place-of-performance board (same order as the states listing). See methodology.
Optum Public Sector Solutions, Inc. is the largest listed prime with work attributed here at $2.0B, or 23.1% of this state’s calendar-2024 total. Top recipients in this extract tie to 3 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 Wisconsin
Listed-prime dollar bands
Exclusive cut of the 13 named primes listed below ($6.1B combined). This is a share of the listed table only, not of Wisconsin’s full place-of-performance total, and not a forecast.
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Mid-scale state peers nationwide
Cross-state peers on the place-of-performance extract: nearest mid-scale obligation totals and comparable awarding-agency span. Not regional neighbors.
Closest place-of-performance obligations
- Ohio $9.3B
- North Carolina $7.6B
- Tennessee $10.0B
- New Jersey $10.0B
- Michigan $7.2B
- Utah $6.9B
Similar awarding-agency span
Wisconsin lists top recipients tied to 3 awarding agencies in the available linked extract.
- Connecticut 3 agencies
- Guam 3 agencies
- Idaho 3 agencies
- Maine 3 agencies
- Mississippi 3 agencies
- Alaska 2 agencies
Disclaimer: USAspending.gov public records for a mid-pack jurisdiction. State-level totals aggregate place-of-performance awards and may lag the latest de-obligations; confirm with official sources.
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