Baxter Healthcare Corporation

Baxter Healthcare Corporation, doing business as Baxter Health Systems, is a for-profit medical-device and pharmaceutical manufacturer headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, that supplies intravenous solutions, frozen antibiotics, pharmaceutical products, surgical instruments, and medical equipment to federal healthcare agencies as a prime contractor competing without set-aside restrictions. The corporation holds a portfolio of 33,290 prime federal awards (100% of tracked volume) with a combined potential value of $14.83 billion across 59 distinct customer agencies, concentrated heavily in routine medical-supply replenishment to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Defense Logistics Agency, and the Department of the Navy.

Baxter's customer concentration is extreme and bifurcated by volume and dollars. By award count, the top five customers account for 10% of tracked awards, led by the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical with 1,864 delivery orders valued at $76.5 million combined, followed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (420 awards, $153 thousand combined potential value), and the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (332 awards, $7.1 million). By potential value, however, the ranking reorders dramatically: the VA Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 carries $520.7 million across 153 awards alone — a massive outlier driven by high-ceiling indefinite-delivery contracts. The next tiers by dollar value are the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical ($76.5 million), VISN 22 ($34.6 million), the Department of the Army Medical Command ($31 million), and VISN 15 ($20.3 million). Together, these five customers represent approximately 5% of Baxter's combined potential-value footprint.

The award portfolio splits across two dominant contract vehicle types: Indefinite Delivery Contracts and Federal Supply Schedules, both anchoring routine order-and-delivery execution. The largest parent vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract V797P9112 with 8,273 task orders valued at $13.3 million combined potential value, followed by Federal Supply Schedule V797P4320A (4,617 task orders, $10.8 million) and V797P5840X (3,099 task orders, $7.1 million). These vehicles are open to multiple federal agencies and support the high-velocity, low-per-order medical-supply procurement pattern evident across the award history.

Baxter's recent activity has climbed sharply — from 244 awards in 2022 to 411 in 2025 — though the first seven months of 2026 show 168 awards on pace for a moderation. The recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months exposes 22 awards valued at $56.3 million combined potential value reaching ultimate completion dates. A single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 for frozen intravenous antibiotics (Cefazolin, Cefepime, Oxacillin, Ceftriaxone in Galaxy Plastic Containers), valued at $1.94 million with an August 2027 completion date, and a Blanket Purchase Agreement with Veterans Integrated Service Network 8 for Total Parenteral Nutrition pharmaceutical supplies, valued at $150,000 through May 2031, represent the two largest named IDVs in the source; the former completed an $387,925.87 delivery order on August 20, 2026.

Baxter's capability portfolio centers on pharmaceutical manufacturing (16,404 awards under NAICS 325412) and surgical and medical instrument manufacturing (5,401 awards under NAICS 339112), spanning drugs and biologicals (18,904 awards under PSC 6505), medical and surgical instruments and supplies (11,064 awards under PSC 6515), and hospital equipment and supplies. Recent representative work includes delivery orders from the Defense Logistics Agency Medical Supply Chain for sodium chloride 0.9% solution (multiple volumes and concentrations), lactated Ringers injection, Plasma-Lyte A solutions, and norepinephrine and dextrose formulations, each typically in the sub-$10,000 range; a $114,588 pharmacy compounder equipment purchase order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 20 for an ExactaMix PRO 1200 Compounder unit with technical support and training; a $22,990 delivery order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 for a Starling CMMST5 noninvasive cardiac monitoring system; and a $25,000 purchase order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 for DoseIQ cloud and service support.

Baxter maintains a subcontract footprint with Cardinal Health 200, LLC as prime, where Baxter supplies medical and surgical equipment and supplies (surgical packs, respiratory masks, tourniquets, hemostatic dressings, surgical instruments, oxygen sensors, and related field supplies) across multiple Defense Logistics Agency regional orders from November 2025 through January 2026. The corporate structure includes at least eleven named subsidiaries, including Baxter Pharmaceutical Products Inc., Welch Allyn Inc., Hill-Rom Inc., Voalte Inc., Advanced Respiratory Inc., and Epiphany Healthcare Data Management LLC, each bringing specialized capability in clinical monitoring, patient-care workflow software, respiratory equipment, and healthcare data management that extends Baxter's footprint beyond core IV pharmaceuticals and infusion equipment. As a parent corporate entity, Baxter competes in full-and-open federal procurement across all contract types and vehicles without reliance on set-aside categories.