Medline Industries, LP

Medline Industries, LP, doing business as Caring International, manufactures and distributes medical consumables, surgical equipment, personal protective equipment, durable medical equipment, wound care products, and laboratory supplies to the federal government as a large-business prime contractor, competing without set-asides across full-and-open federal procurements. Based in Northfield, Illinois, Medline is a for-profit limited partnership operating through two named subsidiaries — Professional Hospital Supply, Inc. and Centurion Medical Products Corporation — and holds primary NAICS classifications in surgical and medical instrument manufacturing and medical equipment and supplies wholesaling (NAICS 334517, 424210). The company serves 174 distinct federal customer agencies across a $30.89 billion combined potential value portfolio spanning recent prime awards, with roughly 55,000 total awards recorded and an obligated base of $3.83 billion (12% of potential value).

Medline's federal customer base shows extreme concentration at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA Headquarters alone accounts for 119 awards carrying $5.63 billion in combined potential value — representing about 18% of Medline's entire portfolio across all customers — while the Indian Health Service (Department of Health and Human Services) brings 880 awards worth $482 million, and the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical command executes 6,023 awards (the highest award count by volume) valued at $113.2 million. The Bureau of Prisons facilities, while numerous in award count, carry smaller individual delivery order sizes; the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners Springfield alone represents 311 awards worth $10.8 million. This customer concentration pattern reveals a dollars-driven dependency on VA relationships that dwarfs all others: the top five customers by potential value account for approximately 20% of Medline's combined potential, with VA headquarters and Indian Health Service dominating the stack.

Medline's vehicle position centers on two established frameworks. The primary vehicle is Federal Supply Schedule V797P4144A (Medical Equipment and Supplies GSA Schedule, FSS-65-II-A), which anchors 20,065 task orders valued at $106.8 million — a high-volume, lower-dollar-per-order transactional pattern typical of schedule work. The Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor Generation Z Version 1 Program (MSPV GEN-Z V1), administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs Strategic Acquisition Center Frederick through Interagency Agreement 990-25, serves the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Veterans Affairs facilities, and Indian Health Service and generates routine monthly delivery orders; Medline holds a principal vendor seat on this multi-agency vehicle and executes hundreds of orders monthly. Additional IDIQs include Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE2D017D0007 (3,827 task orders, $2.6 million) and several BPAs, including a single-award $477,822.22 BPA with the U.S. Marshals Service Tactical Operations Division (running through August 2030) and a $175 million BPA with the Indian Health Service awarded in March 2025 (from which a $9 million BPA call was issued in July 2026).

Recent representative work samples the breadth of Medline's federal supply mission. In June 2026, the VA Strategic Acquisition Center Frederick issued a $80.581 million monthly express report delivery order for aggregate MSPV GEN-Z V1 expenditures across the Federal Bureau of Prisons system. In August 2026, a $82.4 million monthly express report delivery order captured similar aggregate medical supply expenditures. A $7.131 million BPA call from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (September 2026) procured respiratory protection and adult medical supplies under the Medical Equipment and Supplies GSA Schedule. In May 2026, Veterans Integrated Service Network 6 issued a $329,399.64 delivery order for bladder scanners under the Medical Equipment and Supplies GSA Schedule, and IHS issued a $9 million BPA call for medical and surgical supplies (ultimately due May 31, 2029) under the General Services Administration Schedule. Federal Correctional Complex Coleman, Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute, and Federal Correctional Institution Herlong issued numerous monthly delivery orders (typically $2,000–$87,000 each) for medical supplies under MSPV GEN-Z V1 throughout the June–October 2026 period. The Armed Forces Retirement Home awarded definitive contracts for medical supplies and dental equipment, and the Food and Drug Administration issued orders for IIJA-compliant, American-made lab coats and Tyvek coveralls.

Activity has remained steady, with 856 awards in 2022 declining slightly to 728 in 2023, then recovering to 870 in 2024 and 885 in 2025; 430 awards are recorded through October 2026. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is limited: only 30 awards carrying $10.9 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within that window, suggesting a relatively stable, mature contract portfolio with limited near-term discontinuity risk. Medline subcontracts as a supplier to Cardinal Health 200, LLC, providing medical and surgical equipment and supplies (tourniquet combat systems, bandages, gauze, trauma response region supplies, and infection prevention supplies) across multiple Defense Logistics Agency Medical Supply Chain orders dating from January to May 2026. The company also received a sub-award from the District of Columbia government for emergency medical supplies.

Medline competes entirely outside set-aside vehicles — no 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other SBA designations are present in the source — and operates as a large business across all prime and sub work. The federal supplier base recognizes Medline as a critical healthcare logistics vendor anchored by VA relationships and routine small-order replenishment work through GSA Schedule vehicles and multi-agency prime vendor programs serving the correctional and military medical supply infrastructure.