Federal department or agency

Department of Veterans Affairs

Department of Veterans Affairs obligated $82.4B on federal contracts in FY2026 across 94,579 contract actions (+5.2% vs FY2025). Its largest recipient was OPTUM PUBLIC SECTOR SOLUTIONS, INC. ($22.5B). It also awarded $228.2B in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$82.4B
Actions
94.6K
New awards: 38.3K
Sole-source
6.5%
Small business
16%
Open in the contracts explorerFederal contracts

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 26.4BFY2017
  2. 27.1BFY2018
  3. 28.8BFY2019
  4. 39.5BFY2020
  5. 47.7BFY2021
  6. 56.4BFY2022
  7. 61.7BFY2023
  8. 66.9BFY2024
  9. 78.3BFY2025
  10. 82.4BFY2026
  11. 251.8MFY2027

Sub-agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$82.4B100%

Top recipients

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. OPTUM PUBLIC SECTOR SOLUTIONS, INC.$22.5B27%
  2. MCKESSON CORPORATION$13.2B16%
  3. TRIWEST HEALTHCARE ALLIANCE CORP$11B13%
  4. QTC MEDICAL SERVICES INC$2.3B2.8%
  5. OPTUMSERVE HEALTH SERVICES, INC.$1.9B2.3%
  6. LOYAL SOURCE GOVERNMENT SERVICES LLC$1.8B2.2%
  7. VETERANS EVALUATION SERVICES, INC$1.7B2.0%
  8. ORACLE HEALTH GOVERNMENT SERVICES, INC.$1.6B2.0%
  9. MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, LP$932.8M1.1%
  10. V3GATE, LLC$555.6M0.7%

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Health & medical$50.3B61%
  2. Education & social services$11B13%
  3. IT & telecom$8.4B10%
  4. Construction & real property$4.5B5.5%
  5. Professional services$4.1B5.0%
  6. Equipment maintenance$1.6B1.9%
  7. Other equipment & supplies$942.2M1.1%
  8. Transportation & logistics$776.7M0.9%
  9. Facilities & utilities$705.1M0.9%
  10. Research & development$62.2M0.1%
  11. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$35.9M0.0%
  12. Fuel$589.9K0.0%

Where the work was performed

  1. Virginia$37.4B45%
  2. Texas$19B23%
  3. Florida$2.8B3.4%
  4. Wisconsin$2.1B2.5%
  5. California$2.1B2.5%
  6. Illinois$1.9B2.3%
  7. Kansas$1.9B2.3%
  8. Colorado$1.5B1.8%
  9. District of Columbia$1.4B1.8%
  10. Massachusetts$919.2M1.1%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition13%
    US 39% · $10.4B
  • Sole-source awards6.5%
    US 30% · $5.4B
  • Single-offer competitions6.1%
    US 8.7% · $5B
  • Urgency justifications0.9%
    US 5.1% · $752.8M
  • Year-end rush9.2%
    US 6.0% · $7.6B
  • Undefinitized contracts0.3%
    US 5.0% · $270.3M
  • Time-and-materials pricing1.8%
    US 4.2% · $1.5B

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Offices with the most sole-source money

  1. TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION CENTER NJ (36C10B)$1.8B22%
    Department of Veterans Affairs
  2. STRATEGIC ACQUISITION CENTER FREDERICKSBURG (36C10G)$723M2.1%
    Department of Veterans Affairs
  3. 262-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 22 (36C262)$292.3M33%
    Department of Veterans Affairs
  4. COMMODITIES & SERVICES ACQUISITION SERVICE (36C791)$222.8M21%
    Department of Veterans Affairs
  5. 261-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 21 (36C261)$157.5M21%
    Department of Veterans Affairs

Contracts terminated for default: 64

Awards to excluded parties

New awards, options exercised and added work this agency signed while the recipient was listed in SAM.gov as debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment or excluded (exact identifier matches).

In FY2026
$0
0 awards · 0 recipients
All loaded years
$336K
9 awards · 2 recipients

None in FY2026.

SAM.gov lists what agencies report, and only exclusions in effect: those that ended are known from twice-yearly snapshots, so an end date is approximate. Agencies may award to an excluded party with a documented compelling reason. An exclusion is an administrative measure, not a conviction.

Source: Exclusions (debarred, suspended and otherwise excluded parties) (U.S. General Services Administration, SAM.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Exclusions as listed on Oct 8, 2026, history from Apr 28, 2022.

Largest awards

  1. EHRM WAVES K, L, M (VISN 23) AND N, O (VISN 15) DEPLOYMENTS$2.1B
    ORACLE HEALTH GOVERNMENT SERVICES, INC.· Wyandotte County, KS· IT & telecom· Sep 28, 2022 – Sep 24, 2026· 36C10B22N0051EHRM
  2. VA MICROSOFT ENTERPRISE LICENSE AGREEMENT.$1.6B
    DELL FEDERAL SYSTEMS L.P· Williamson County, TX· IT & telecom· Mar 29, 2022 – Apr 20, 2026· 36C10B22F0089
  3. TASK ORDER 36C10B18N0003 UNDER IDIQ CONTRACT 36C10B18D5000 FOR OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES, TO INCLUDE HOSTING, FOR THE EHRM APPLICATIONS, APPLICATION SERVICES, AND ALL SUPPORTING EHRM DATA.$1.5B
    ORACLE HEALTH GOVERNMENT SERVICES, INC.· Wyandotte County, KS· IT & telecom· May 17, 2018 – Jul 15, 2026· 36C10B18N0003
  4. ENTERPRISE DATA NETWORK SERVICES CARRIER B$1.4B
    AT&T ENTERPRISES, LLC· Travis County, TX· IT & telecom· Sep 30, 2020 – Sep 9, 2026· 36C10A20F0309
  5. EXPRESS REPORT: PHARMACEUTICAL PRIME VENDOR (PPV)FY2026 NOVEMBER$1.4B
    MCKESSON CORPORATION· Dallas County, TX· Health & medical· Nov 1, 2025 – Nov 1, 2025· 36C24026K1002
  6. EXPRESS REPORT: PHARMACEUTICAL PRIME VENDOR (PPV)FY2026 MAY$1.4B
    MCKESSON CORPORATION· Dallas County, TX· Health & medical· May 1, 2026 – May 1, 2026· 36C24026K1008
  7. TRANSFORMATION TWENTY-ONE TOTAL TECHNOLOGY NEXT GENERATION (T4NG) TASK ORDER - BENEFITS INTEGRATED DELIVERY$1.4B
    BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC· Monmouth County, NJ· IT & telecom· May 18, 2021 – Jul 8, 2026· 36C10B21N10070021
  8. EXPRESS REPORT: AUGUST 2026$1.2B
    TRIWEST HEALTHCARE ALLIANCE CORP· Spotsylvania County, VA· Education & social services· Sep 23, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026· 36C10G26K0300

Federal grants & assistance awarded

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Department of Veterans Affairs obligated $228.2B in federal assistance in FY2026, on 384,803 actions (12,497 new awards), +9.4% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 64.109 · Veterans Compensation for Service-Connected Disability ($194.9B).

Assistance · FY2026
$228.2B
Loan face value
$64.8B
lent or guaranteed
Actions
384.8K
Since FY2021
$1.2T

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 208.7BFY2021
  2. 234.6BFY2022
  3. 195.1BFY2023
  4. 171.5BFY2024
  5. 208.6BFY2025
  6. 228.2BFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$223.8B98%
  2. Grants$3B1.3%
  3. Other assistance$910.2M0.4%
  4. Insurance$434M0.2%
  5. Loans$00.0%
    $64.8B lent or guaranteed

Top programs

  1. 64.109 · Veterans Compensation for Service-Connected Disability$194.9B85%
  2. 64.110 · Veterans Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for Service-Connected Death$10.9B4.8%
  3. 64.028 · Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance$9.7B4.3%
  4. 64.117 · Survivors and Dependents Educational Assistance$3.1B1.4%
  5. 64.015 · Veterans State Nursing Home Care$2.1B0.9%
  6. 64.104 · Pension for Non-Service-Connected Disability for Veterans$1.6B0.7%
  7. 64.116 · Veteran Readiness and Employment$1.4B0.6%
  8. 64.039 · Champva$910.2M0.4%

Top recipients (organizations)

  1. TEXAS GENERAL LAND OFFICE$158.9M0.1%
    AUSTIN, TX
  2. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS$119.1M0.1%
    HOLLYWOOD, FL
  3. CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS$110.6M0.0%
    SACRAMENTO, CA
  4. VETERANS AFFAIRS WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT$99.5M0.0%
    ORTING, WA
  5. PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY & VETERANS AFFAIRS$86.5M0.0%
    ANNVILLE, PA
  6. NYS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH$85.1M0.0%
    ALBANY, NY
  7. VETERANS COMMISSION MISSOURI$83.2M0.0%
    JEFFERSON CITY, MO
  8. MICHIGAN STATE OF$78.6M0.0%
    GRAND RAPIDS, MI

Where it went

  1. Texas$26.9B12%
  2. Florida$20.6B9.0%
  3. California$18.8B8.3%
  4. North Carolina$11.1B4.9%
  5. Georgia$10.6B4.7%
  6. Virginia$10.5B4.6%
  7. Tennessee$6.2B2.7%
  8. South Carolina$6B2.6%
  9. Ohio$6B2.6%
  10. Pennsylvania$6B2.6%

By state of the place of performance.

Sub-agencies

  1. Under Secretary for Benefits/Veterans Benefits Administration$224.2B98%
  2. Under Secretary for Health/Veterans Health Administration$3.9B1.7%
  3. Directory/National Cemetery Administration$29.9M0.0%

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Federal grants & assistance

Subawards under this agency's awards

First-tier subawards that recipients of this agency's contracts and financial assistance reported, by the fiscal year of the subaward.

FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $1.4B (568 subawards)
  • Sub-grants: $5.2M (18 subawards)

340 sub-recipients

Largest sub-recipients

  1. RED RIVER TECHNOLOGY LLC$433.7M32%
    CHANTILLY, VA · 3 subawards
  2. 1 EVEREST GROUP LLC$73.6M5.4%
    BETHESDA, MD · 1 subaward
  3. ADVANCED MONITORED CAREGIVING INC$59.8M4.4%
    NEW YORK, NY · 4 subawards
  4. BLUE LAKE GOVERNMENT SERVICES LLC$50M3.7%
    HOUSTON, TX · 1 subaward
  5. TAKE2 CONSULTING LLC$22.9M1.7%
    VIENNA, VA · 7 subawards
  6. JOINTMEDOPS, LLC$21.7M1.6%
    EMORY, TX · 1 subaward
  7. APOTHESOURCE, INC$21.6M1.6%
    SUMMERVILLE, SC · 5 subawards
  8. RISE8 INC$21.3M1.6%
    TAMPA, FL · 1 subaward
  9. PODIMETRICS, INC$20.3M1.5%
    SOMERVILLE, MA · 7 subawards
  10. STEERBRIDGE STRATEGIES LLC$19.7M1.4%
    VIENNA, VA · 4 subawards

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Who lobbies this agency

Organizations whose quarterly lobbying reports list this agency as contacted, ranked by the reports' spending. A report's amount covers all its issues and every agency it lists; reports do not split it.

Lobbying in 2026
$142.2M
Clients
325
Reports
595

The whole amount of every report that lists this agency.

Organizations lobbying it, 2026

  1. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$30M
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Budget and appropriations, Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code, Housing
  2. American Medical AssociationAI match · 99%$13.1M
    82% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Veterans, Health issues, Budget and appropriations
  3. Amazon.com Services LLCAI match · 100%$8.7M
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Health issues, Budget and appropriations, Defense
  4. AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP)$5.3M
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Health issues, Medicare and Medicaid, Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code
  5. MICROSOFT CORPORATIONAI match · 99%$5.1M
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense, Education, Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code
  6. JOHNSON & JOHNSON SERVICES, INC.$5M
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Veterans, Health issues, Budget and appropriations
  7. PMI US Corporate Services Inc. (fka PMI Global Services Inc.)$4.7M
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Veterans, Health issues, Budget and appropriations
  8. Oracle CorporationAI match · 100%$4.1M
    96% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Veterans, Health issues, Budget and appropriations
  9. HUMANA INC.AI match · 100%$3M
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense, Medicare and Medicaid, Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code
  10. Alzheimer's Association$2.3M
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Health issues, Budget and appropriations
  11. DAVITA INC.AI match · 97%$2.2M
    99.9% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Veterans, Health issues, Medicare and Medicaid
  12. MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100%$2M
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Budget and appropriations, Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code, Housing
  13. ALKERMES, INC.$2M
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Health issues, Medicare and Medicaid, Alcohol and drug abuse
  14. VETERANS GUARDIAN VA CLAIM CONSULTING$1.9M
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Veterans
  15. AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION$1.6M
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Veterans, Health issues, Medicare and Medicaid

38 more clients ($2.3M) are counted but not named: their names may be a person's.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Committees that oversee and fund it

Congressional committees whose jurisdiction includes this agency, and the appropriations subcommittees that write its spending bill (Analisa's reading of the House and Senate rules; committees share jurisdiction). Leaders as currently published.

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Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.