USAspending.gov · federal agency · CY2024 · code 036
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Federal contract spending profile, contract obligations, budget authority and top contractors, from USAspending.gov.
- Corpus rank
- #2 of 65
- Contract obligations (CY2024)
- $70.3B
- Budget authority
- $524.2B
- Agency
- VA
Year-over-year change, 2019–2024
Across the calendar years on file, Department of Veterans Affairs’s annual contract obligations rose from $63.7B in 2023 to $70.3B in 2024. 10.3% vs 2023
Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures share the calendar-year basis of the CY2024 headline above; budget authority is a separate measure.
How Department of Veterans Affairs leads the CY2024 obligation board
$70.3B · #2 of 65 by CY2024 contract obligations (top 5% nationally) - a top-third USAspending agency by calendar-2024 contract obligations (same board as the agencies listing). See methodology.
From calendar 2019 to 2024, Department of Veterans Affairs held #2 of 66 agencies in the annual contract-obligation series. Its share of that year’s tracked agency total moved from 5.14% to 9.33%. Across the available annual series, its obligations ranged from $29.1B in 2019 to $70.3B in 2024, a 2.4x spread.
Optum Public Sector Solutions, Inc. is the largest listed prime contractor at $20.5B, or 29.2% of this agency’s calendar-2024 obligation total. The table below shows the remaining named prime recipients in the extract. Contract obligations ($70.3B) are a thin slice of the $524.2B budget-authority ceiling - most of the legal authority is outside this contract window. Methodology documents the distinct populations and the Treasury source fields.
Top Contractors
| # | Contractor | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Optum Public Sector Solutions, Inc. | $20.5B |
| 2 | Mckesson Corporation | $9.6B |
| 3 | Triwest Healthcare Alliance Corp | $9.2B |
| 4 | Qtc Medical Services Inc | $2.2B |
| 5 | Optumserve Health Services, Inc. | $1.6B |
| 6 | Veterans Evaluation Services, Inc | $1.4B |
| 7 | Oracle Health Government Services, Inc. | $896.9M |
| 8 | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $746.1M |
| 9 | Dell Federal Systems L.P | $525.8M |
| 10 | Loyal Source Government Services LLC | $518.8M |
| 11 | V3gate, LLC | $406.4M |
| 12 | Iron Bow Technologies, LLC | $391.7M |
| 13 | At&t Enterprises, LLC | $384.1M |
| 14 | Fedex Supply Chain Distribution System, Inc. | $353.0M |
| 15 | Medline Industries, LP | $333.0M |
| 16 | Sonova USA Inc | $300.7M |
| 17 | Four Points Technology, L.L.C. | $282.1M |
| 18 | Accenture Federal Services LLC | $268.6M |
| 19 | Concordance Healthcare Solutions LLC | $267.1M |
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Nearby mega-scale agencies
Data-derived peers across the USAspending agency extract: nearest contract-obligation scale and nearest budget authority. Not recommendations or same-department siblings.
Closest CY2024 contract obligations
Similar budget authority
Disclaimer: Data from USAspending.gov public records. For informational purposes only. Contract amounts are aggregated and may not reflect the most current modifications or de-obligations. Always verify with official sources.
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