In March 2025, the Defense Logistics Agency (“DLA”) and the Veterans Health Administration (“VHA”) entered into another interagency agreement. The agencies announced that the purpose of the 10-year, $3.6 billion agreement is to align supply chain requirements and centralize logistical support DLA will provide to all VHA healthcare facilities nationwide.
The 2025 agreement follows three DLA and VHA interagency agreements entered into between 2018 and 2020. In 2018, DLA and VHA entered into an agreement under which VHA began transitioning its medical supplies purchasing to DLA’s Electronic Catalog (“ECAT”). In 2019, the agencies entered into another interagency agreement which allowed VHA to access medical and surgical items by leveraging the DLA supply chain and provided for creating a centralized ordering system, rather than using the separate VHA and DLA systems.
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