Federal spend by industry (NAICS)

How much does the federal government spend under NAICS 221210 (Natural Gas Distribution), and who wins the contracts?

Name: Natural Gas Distribution (NAICS 221210) — federal contract spending
Creator: Fonteum
License: https://www.usa.gov/government-works

Federal prime-contract spending under NAICS 221210 (Natural Gas Distribution), as the public record states it — total obligated, the contractors who win the work, the agencies that buy it, and the fiscal-year trend, stated as exact dated facts with their source, never a score or label. Confirm the full picture at USASpending.gov →

The federal government has $41,846,702 obligated across 36 prime-award actions on file to 1 contractor under NAICS 221210 (Natural Gas Distribution), on the prime-award records Fonteum currently holds. Every figure is an exact USASpending.gov fact — no score, no label; confirm the full picture at USASpending.gov.

At a glance

$41,846,702

Obligated across prime awards on file

Prime-award actions on file

Distinct contractors

Distinct awarding agencies

Top contractors — largest recipients of Natural Gas Distribution awards

Contractor	Award actions	Obligated	Share of obligated $
ARAPAHO COMMUNICATIONS. LP	36	$41,846,702	100%

Top 1 of 1 contractors on file, by obligated dollars. A high obligation is an exact fact, not an endorsement. Each named contractor links to its canonical federal contractor record.

Source: USASpending.gov award record. Confirm current status at SAM.gov →

Who buys Natural Gas Distribution — top awarding agencies

Awarding agency	Award actions	Obligated	Share of obligated $
Department of Justice	36	$41,846,702	100%

Source: USASpending.gov award record. Confirm current status at SAM.gov →

Set-aside reliance

How much of the federal spending under Natural Gas Distribution runs through a small-business or socioeconomic set-aside vehicle — an exact ratio of public dollars, not an eligibility determination.

Obligations via set-aside vehicles

Set-aside award actions

Total award actions on file

Source: USASpending.gov award record. Confirm current status at SAM.gov →

Obligations by fiscal year (the YoY trend)

Federal fiscal year	Award actions	Obligated
FY2022	1	$233,272
FY2021	1	$1,972,458
FY2020	1	$1,826,163
FY2019	1	$1,902,203
FY2018	2	$3,076,929

Largest awards on record

Award ID (PIID)	Awarding agency	Signed	Obligated	Award type
DJBP0215RP420003	Department of Justice	2015-10-02	$4,142,070	PURCHASE ORDER
DJBP0215PP420005	Department of Justice	2014-10-01	$3,545,035	PO
DJB0700CCIA310077	Department of Justice	2010-01-29

What this NAICS code covers

NAICS 221210 is Natural Gas Distribution in the North American Industry Classification System — the standard the federal government uses to classify what it buys. The U.S. Small Business Administration sets a small-business size standard (a receipts or employee threshold) per NAICS code, used to decide who qualifies for small-business set-asides.

Reference	Source
NAICS 221210 definition	U.S. Census Bureau (NAICS 2022)
Small-business size standard for NAICS 221210	U.S. Small Business Administration

How to read this profile

This page reports exact public-record facts and assigns no score or label. An obligated-dollar figure is an exact sum over USASpending.gov prime awards on the records Fonteum currently holds; it is a bounded slice of the federal corpus, not a completeness claim, and it is not a budget or forecast. Contractors are named only as the neutral recipients of public awards. The award footprint fills in as the federal award-archive backfill runs.

Related federal-contracting evidence

Reviewed by the Fonteum Government Contracts Desk. Federal procurement records analysts. This study reports exact regulatory facts — an award's signed date and an exclusion's active window, each sourced to SAM.gov and USASpending.gov. It makes no determination of wrongdoing and assigns no score.

Sources: USASpending.gov prime awards (U.S. Government Works, public domain) for the spending figures; U.S. Census Bureau (NAICS 2022) for the industry title; U.S. Small Business Administration for the size standard. Confirm any current figure at usaspending.gov. Canonical record: https://fonteum.com/gov/naics/221210. Industry data as of 2026-06-21.