Medical, Dental, And Hospital Equipment And Supplies Merchant Wholesalers federal obligations in Virginia

Medical wholesalers and Virginia as a pair

Medical, Dental, And Hospital Equipment And Supplies Merchant Wholesalers as the NAICS industry, Virginia as place of performance: 342,569 records summing to $655,309,544.55. An award in this industry coded outside VA is out. An award in Virginia from a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Virginia. Virginia place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Norfolk, Arlington, Richmond, or a Pentagon-adjacent ZIP.

342,569 awards is a very high-count industry cell. Volume like this often accumulates on supply schedules, delivery orders, and modifications without each row being a new plant or a new program. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 342,569 as 342,569 unique establishments. The overlay path for this pair is the ties page for medical, dental, and hospital equipment merchant wholesalers in Virginia. Virginia federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 423450 is the industry book without a VA filter. Virginia industries lists other NAICS cells inside the state. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is about $1,913 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical invoice. On a very thick file the mean is pulled down by many small or modifying rows. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: Virginia did not “cause” $655,309,544.55 by existing as a large or small place, and NAICS 423450 did not “cause” the geography tag. Population, employment, and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 423450 × VA only.

Wholesale supply, not a hospital census

$655,309,544.55 does not measure hospital beds, clinics supplied, or devices implanted. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. NAICS 423450 covers medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers: wholesale of medical equipment and supplies as coded on the award. It is not a hospital census and not a count of devices used in care. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 423450 and a VA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 342,569 awards as a census of hospitals supplied. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Virginia federal spending or the national NAICS 423450 table matched $655,309,544.55 and 342,569, the join would be pointless. Use the ties page when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state cells for the same NAICS are other pairs, not addends.

Virginia statewide, not a local map

Place of performance VA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Virginia. Recipient headquarters can sit in another state while the place-of-performance tag remains VA. Contractor address is not this filter.

Virginia place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Norfolk, Arlington, Richmond, or a Pentagon-adjacent ZIP. This packet does not split $655,309,544.55 by city, county, installation, or named facility. 342,569 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Do not infer a regional ranking from a single state×industry cell.

Obligations still are not outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $655,309,544.55 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Virginia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Virginia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 342,569-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $655,309,544.55. Campaign-finance filings are a different dataset; this page does not treat donations as funding these awards.

Citing Medical wholesalers in Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Medical, Dental, And Hospital Equipment And Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (NAICS 423450) obligated $655,309,544.55 on 342,569 awards coded to Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as hospital beds, clinics supplied, or devices implanted.

Prefer the ties page for medical, dental, and hospital equipment merchant wholesalers in Virginia if a live overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Virginia federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to VA. NAICS 423450 is the industry parent without the VA filter. Virginia industries is the state’s industry index. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $655,309,544.55.

A usable footnote names Medical, Dental, And Hospital Equipment And Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, Virginia, NAICS 423450, $655,309,544.55, and 342,569. The compact headline $655M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1,913 is $655,309,544.55 divided by 342,569. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated for medical, dental, and hospital equipment merchant wholesalers in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $655,309,544.55 across 342,569 awards with NAICS 423450 and a Virginia place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of hospitals supplied. Keep both keys when quoting $655,309,544.55.

Does this total count hospitals or devices supplied?

No. The packet publishes $655,309,544.55 and 342,569 awards for NAICS 423450 inside VA coding. Hospital beds, clinics supplied, or devices implanted are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Virginia file have 342,569 awards?

That is the award-record count for 423450 × VA. Combined with $655,309,544.55, the average is about $1,913. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 342,569 is not unique hospitals supplied. Later ingests can revise the count.

Where is the live table?

Virginia federal spending and NAICS 423450 are the parents, not addends. Virginia industries lists other NAICS cells in the state. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $655,309,544.55. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.