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Department of Veterans Affairs: $78.3B in contracts in FY2025
The VA runs the largest integrated health system in the country and buys like one: medical supplies and equipment, clinical staffing, pharmaceuticals, construction and leasing for its hospitals and clinics, and the IT that connects them. Its Veterans First rule puts service-disabled and veteran-owned small businesses ahead of everyone on most set-asides.
Its mission, in its own words
To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan" by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's veterans.
As recorded on USAspending.gov; 6 sub-agencies and bureaus buy under it. www.va.gov
- Small-business set-asides
- $7.1B
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Set-aside share
- 9.1%
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations over all contract obligations, read 2026-11-05.
What VA buys, by code
The NAICS codes with the most VA contract dollars in FY2025: together $67.5B, 86.2% of everything it obligated. Each code links to its own page with the buyers under it across government.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $32B | 40.8% | |
| $11.7B | 14.9% | |
| $8.1B | 10.4% | |
| $3.9B | 5% | |
| $2.8B | 3.6% | |
| $2.4B | 3.1% | |
| $1.4B | 1.8% | |
| $1.3B | 1.7% | |
| $905M | 1.2% | |
| $840M | 1.1% | |
| $812M | 1% | |
| $669M | 0.9% | |
| $634M | 0.8% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, read 2026-11-05.
The small-business share
$7,138,192,135 of VA’s FY2025 contract dollars, 9.1% of the total, went out under a small-business set-aside: competitions and sole-source awards reserved for small firms, 8(a) participants, HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned and women-owned businesses. The dollars primes placed with small subcontractors sit on top of that and are not counted here.
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations, read 2026-11-05.
The vehicles
T4NG2
The VA's IT services IDIQ, with veteran-owned holders favored on orders.
VA Federal Supply Schedules
The VA's own schedules for medical equipment, supplies and pharmaceuticals.
CFM construction IDIQs
The Office of Construction and Facilities Management's regional construction and design vehicles.
SDVOSB and VOSB set-asides
The Veterans First reservations across every category the VA buys.
What GovSmith does with this
How GovSmith wins at VA for you
For a veteran-owned client, the VA is where GovSmith starts: the vCM confirms the certification, watches the VISN-level buys and the construction orders, and times the pursuits to the medical centers' fiscal-year patterns. For everyone else, the VA's medical and IT subcontracts are the way in.