High-Tech Medical Equipment: VA Has Opportunities to Improve Its Acquisition of Maintenance Services , May 1 , 2026
High-Tech Medical Equipment: VA Has Opportunities to Improve Its Acquisition of Maintenance Services , May 1 , 2026
From the report: “The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually to buy and maintain high-tech medical equipment (HTME)—such as magnetic resonance imaging equipment—to deliver health care to veterans. To maintain this equipment, and help ensure its safe use, medical centers can purchase maintenance services—often from equipment manufacturers—using agencywide or stand-alone contracts. Agencywide contracts help VA leverage its buying power to obtain quality medical equipment at the best prices possible.
VA’s approach to buying HTME, uses agencywide contracts that generally support equipment maintenance. But not all regional contracting officials use these contracts when buying maintenance services and some unknowingly duplicated other officials’ work by awarding their own contracts for the services.”
Authors - Government Accountability Office (GAO)Related Resources
