Federal spend by industry (NAICS)

How much does the federal government spend under NAICS 611310 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools), and who wins the contracts?

Name: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (NAICS 611310) — federal contract spending
Creator: Fonteum
License: https://www.usa.gov/government-works

Federal prime-contract spending under NAICS 611310 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools), 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 $2,157,839,904 obligated across 8 prime-award actions on file to 2 contractors under NAICS 611310 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools), 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

$2,157,839,904

Obligated across prime awards on file

Prime-award actions on file

Distinct contractors

Distinct awarding agencies

Top contractors — largest recipients of Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools awards

Contractor	Award actions	Obligated	Share of obligated $
THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY	1	$2,154,534,154	99.8%
DEPLOYMENT MEDICINE CONSULTANTS, INC.	7	$3,305,750	0.2%

Top 2 of 2 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 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools — top awarding agencies

Awarding agency	Award actions	Obligated	Share of obligated $
Department of Energy	1	$2,154,534,154	99.8%
Department of Defense	7	$3,305,750	0.2%

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

Set-aside reliance

How much of the federal spending under Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 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
FY2013	1	$343,800
FY2009	1	$2,154,534,154
FY2008	5	$1,005,150
FY2007	1	$1,956,800

Federal fiscal years run October 1 – September 30. Showing the most recent 4 of 4 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
DEAC0209CH11466	Department of Energy	2009-01-28	$2,154,534,154	DEFINITIVE CONTRACT
M6700107P0016	Department of Defense	2006-12-07	$1,956,800	PO
W912CZ08P0154	Department of Defense	2008-04-24	$540,000	PURCHASE ORDER
M6700113P9006	Department of Defense	2013-07-30	$343,800	PURCHASE ORDER
M6700108P9006	Department of Defense	2008-02-28	$330,400	PURCHASE ORDER

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 611310 is Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 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 611310 definition	U.S. Census Bureau (NAICS 2022)
Small-business size standard for NAICS 611310	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/611310. Industry data as of 2026-07-27.