Medical, Dental, And Hospital Equipment And Supplies Merchant Wholesalers federal obligations in Massachusetts (NAICS 423450)

What the medical wholesalers–Massachusetts join is

NAICS 423450 and place-of-performance state MA meet here. $225,597,942.82 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not nationwide Medical, Dental, And Hospital Equipment And Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, not Massachusetts's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Massachusetts 423450 is medical merchant wholesale, not device manufacturing and not a hospital-bed census. 423450 is Medical, Dental, And Hospital Equipment And Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, not medical-device manufacturing or hospital operations. Catalog-medical and hospital-supply folklore and Boston campus and defense-corridor folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not extra packet dollars and not a census of hospitals or SKUs.

26,600 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — an unusually long award list in which catalog lines and modifications can dominate the row count. An unusually long row list usually mixes many small actions with a thinner set of large instruments. The join does not rank Massachusetts against other states and does not name medical wholesalers inside the extract. Unique vendors are unpublished.

Open Massachusetts federal spending for the statewide rollup, NAICS 423450 for the industry hub, Massachusetts industries for other NAICS in the same geography, and All spending ties for other pairs. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $225,597,942.82.

26,600 NAICS 423450 actions under one Massachusetts filter

Dividing $225,597,942.82 by 26,600 yields about $8,481.13 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical hospital-supply award. A second medical wholesalers join in another state uses the same NAICS and a different dollar total. Do not treat Massachusetts's 423450 figure as a synonym for every Medical, Dental, And Hospital Equipment And Supplies Merchant Wholesalers award in the catalog.

Catalog-medical and hospital-supply folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Industry titles on NAICS 423450 are the place to see what a given line bought. Boston campus and defense-corridor folklore may explain a search path. It does not add dollars or medical wholesalers.

NAICS 423450 without a Massachusetts overlay is a different total

The industry hub for NAICS 423450 aggregates Medical, Dental, And Hospital Equipment And Supplies Merchant Wholesalers without requiring MA geography. Massachusetts federal spending aggregates all industries with Massachusetts place of performance. Massachusetts industries lists other NAICS in Massachusetts. Only this tie applies both the 423450 filter and the Massachusetts geography tag, which is why it cites 26,600 awards and $225,597,942.82.

Place of performance in Massachusetts is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list MA while later supply distribution occurs in New Hampshire or Connecticut. medical wholesalers awards coded to those places do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Boston. This packet does not split Boston from Worcester or Springfield. Boston, Worcester, and Springfield are reader landmarks, not packet subtotals.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $225,597,942.82 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Massachusetts over-reads the field. USAspending.gov NAICS aggregates by place of performance state are the source.

Award count 26,600 is a record count, not a payment count and not a unique-contractor census. Catalog lines, delivery orders, and modifications can each mint a row. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use Massachusetts industries and NAICS 423450. Keep the obligation word on $225,597,942.82.

What this pair does not prove

A large medical wholesalers total in Massachusetts does not mean the industry caused Massachusetts's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between Boston campus and defense-corridor folklore and 423450 awards is expected; it is not a finding about waste or plant quality. No performance metric is in the packet. Massachusetts 423450 is medical merchant wholesale, not device manufacturing and not a hospital-bed census.

Keep $225,597,942.82 labeled as NAICS 423450 obligations with Massachusetts place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. Do not claim that donations paid for $225,597,942.82 in Massachusetts. No contractor or award-recipient names are in the packet, and none are invented.

How to cite 423450 in Massachusetts

A clean footnote names NAICS 423450 (Medical, Dental, And Hospital Equipment And Supplies Merchant Wholesalers), Massachusetts place of performance, $225,597,942.82 in obligations, and 26,600 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $225,597,942.82 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $8,481.13 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical hospital-supply award.

Massachusetts federal spending, NAICS 423450, Massachusetts industries, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $225,597,942.82 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Boston-versus-Worcester folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Medical wholesalers names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has NAICS 423450 obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov records $225,597,942.82 in obligations for NAICS 423450 (Medical, Dental, And Hospital Equipment And Supplies Merchant Wholesalers) with Massachusetts place of performance, covering 26,600 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not nationwide Medical, Dental, And Hospital Equipment And Supplies Merchant Wholesalers.

Does this total include every Massachusetts hospital-supply award?

The extract lists 26,600 award actions totaling $225,597,942.82. Average obligation per award is about $8,481.13, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical hospital-supply award. Unique medical wholesalers are not published here.

Is this a Boston-only medical wholesalers total?

No. $225,597,942.82 and 26,600 awards are statewide Massachusetts place of performance. This packet does not split Boston from Worcester or Springfield. Awards coded to New Hampshire or Connecticut are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Boston.

Where is the live medical wholesalers–Massachusetts table?

Massachusetts federal spending is the state rollup. NAICS 423450 is the industry hub without a state filter. Massachusetts industries lists other NAICS in Massachusetts. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.