Deployable medical capability and the standards it is held to
Military medical procurement covers a spectrum from individual first aid equipment to deployable field hospitals, and what distinguishes it from civilian healthcare supply is the operating environment. Equipment must work without reliable power, water or climate control, survive transport and rough handling, be maintainable by a technician far from a service centre, and be light and compact enough to move with the force. Those constraints frequently rule out the clinically best civilian product, and the specification says so explicitly.
Clinical and regulatory standards still apply. Devices need the conformity marking or approval that applies where they will be used; medicines need registration, cold chain management in hot climates, and controlled drug handling with an auditable chain of custody across borders; and deployable facilities are held to defined capability levels for the surgical and diagnostic functions they must provide. Blood products, oxygen generation and medical waste handling each bring specific requirements that are easy to omit from a bid.
Training and sustainment are procured with the capability. Clinical staff need training on the specific configuration deployed, and simulation is often part of the contract; spares, consumables and calibration must be provisioned for an operating period without resupply; and technical documentation has to be usable in the field rather than in a workshop. Interoperability with allied medical systems -- shared patient records, compatible evacuation equipment, common consumable standards -- is increasingly specified because casualties move between national systems during an evacuation.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys military medical in United States?
GlobalGov holds 20 military medical records from 17 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - Dhaca (3 records); 242-Network Contract Office 02 (36C242) (2 records); 244-Network Contract Office 4 (36C244) (1 record); 246-Network Contracting Office 6 (36C246) (1 record); 248-Network Contract Office 8 (36C248) (1 record); 252-Network Contract Office 12 (36C252) (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 45% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - Dhaca | 3 | 15% |
| 242-Network Contract Office 02 (36C242) | 2 | 10% |
| 244-Network Contract Office 4 (36C244) | 1 | 5.0% |
| 246-Network Contracting Office 6 (36C246) | 1 | 5.0% |
| 248-Network Contract Office 8 (36C248) | 1 | 5.0% |
| 252-Network Contract Office 12 (36C252) | 1 | 5.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to military medical tenders in United States?
Across the 19 United States military medical notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 12 days. A quarter of them allowed 6 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 59. 10 of them (53%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.
How often are military medical tenders published in United States?
United States published 19 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 20, spread across 6 separate months of activity since 15 September 2025. May is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 8 May 2026, 146 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does United States compare with other military medical markets?
Among the 3 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable military medical market, United States ranks 3rd by number of records. The largest is Colombia (141 records against 20 here). Within United States itself, military medical is the 85th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the United States military medical records on this page come from?
These 20 records are collected from 2 official sources: SAM.gov (17), Grants.gov (3). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent Military Medical tenders in United States
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical military medical notice in United States is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
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