Federal spend by industry (NAICS)

How much does the federal government spend under NAICS 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), and who wins the contracts?

Name: Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (NAICS 236220) — federal contract spending
Creator: Fonteum
License: https://www.usa.gov/government-works

Federal prime-contract spending under NAICS 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), 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 $6,538,003,115 obligated across 904 prime-award actions on file to 45 contractors under NAICS 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), 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

$6,538,003,115

Obligated across prime awards on file

904

Prime-award actions on file

Distinct contractors

Distinct awarding agencies

Top contractors — largest recipients of Commercial and Institutional Building Construction awards

Contractor	Award actions	Obligated	Share of obligated $
FISHER SAND & GRAVEL CO	2	$5,427,039,612	83%
BLACKHAWK VENTURES, LLC	179	$219,988,970	3.4%
ODYSSEY INTERNATIONAL, INC.	55	$157,308,332	2.4%
EDIFICE LLC	69	$131,690,783	2%
ZIESON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, LLC	65	$89,645,083	1.4%
A4 CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.	11	$65,489,202	1%
N-POWELL COMPANY, INC.	53	$59,941,302	0.9%
NORTHERN CONSTRUCTION LLC	68	$59,381,644	0.9%
EDIFICE-SCHLOSSER JV LLC	3	$54,448,326	0.8%
PLATT CONSTRUCTION, INC.	75	$43,876,926	0.7%

Top 10 of 45 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 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction — top awarding agencies

Awarding agency	Award actions	Obligated	Share of obligated $
Department of Homeland Security	26	$5,445,672,731	83.3%
Department of Defense	402	$687,014,761	10.5%
Department of Veterans Affairs	250	$231,784,567	3.5%
Department of State	35	$67,574,479	1%
General Services Administration	133	$66,916,528	1%

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

Set-aside reliance

How much of the federal spending under Commercial and Institutional Building Construction runs through a small-business or socioeconomic set-aside vehicle — an exact ratio of public dollars, not an eligibility determination.

3.1%

Obligations via set-aside vehicles

171

Set-aside award actions

904

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
FY2026	2	$5,427,039,612
FY2025	1	$0
FY2024	7	$2,288,234
FY2023	12	$1,435,385
FY2022	12	$3,996,913
FY2021	23	$6,678,293
FY2020	16	$11,862,211
FY2019	47	$80,269,604
FY2018	47	$67,954,021
FY2017	60	$56,708,008

Federal fiscal years run October 1 – September 30. Showing the most recent 10 of 22 years with award actions on file.

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

Largest awards on record

Award ID (PIID)	Awarding agency	Signed	Obligated	Award type
70B01C26F00000017	Department of Homeland Security	2025-12-17	$2,832,999,612	DELIVERY ORDER
70B01C26F00000405	Department of Homeland Security	2026-06-02	$2,594,040,000	DELIVERY ORDER
W912PP06C0006	Department of Defense	2006-05-11	$31,658,308	DCA
VA101F13C0055	Department of Veterans Affairs	2013-07-31	$24,290,752	DEFINITIVE CONTRACT
W912DR14C0017	Department of Defense	2014-05-12	$22,674,182	DEFINITIVE CONTRACT

Prime-award actions only — sub-award (subcontract) records are not ingested. Confirm the full award history at USASpending.gov →

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

What this NAICS code covers

NAICS 236220 is Commercial and Institutional Building Construction 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 236220 definition	U.S. Census Bureau (NAICS 2022)
Small-business size standard for NAICS 236220	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/236220. Industry data as of 2026-07-22.