All Categories

The more than 500 categories the federal government uses to describe the products and services purchased in response to the coronavirus pandemic. These are the “what” in “What did the government purchase?”

Category	Contracts	Actions	Total Committed
Medical and Surgical Instruments, Equipment and Supplies	2,942	5,701	$7,069,268,452
Fruits and Vegetables	454	1,025	$4,299,618,409
Other Professional Services	458	1,120	$2,540,987,052
Laboratory Testing	262	743	$2,229,654,513
Drugs and Biologicals	253	480	$1,765,069,356
Laboratory Equipment and Supplies	610	1,722	$1,632,672,576
Biomedical Advanced Development R&D	65	118	$1,538,424,355
Hospital and Surgical Clothing and Related Special Purpose Items	179	252	$1,060,156,600
Financial Services	24	133	$843,784,507
Meat, Poultry and Fish	68	135	$839,502,453
Biomedical Applied Research/Exploratory Development R&D	67	188	$838,637,031
Other IT and Telecommunications	138	353	$765,338,117
Operation of Government Owned Contractor-Operated R&D Facilities	10	69	$753,838,344
Engineering/Technical Services	116	241	$662,734,794
Annual Software Maintenance Service Plans	51	130	$614,029,206
Integrated Hardware/Software/Services Solutions	76	224	$541,885,516
Other Medical	141	459	$533,538,419
Operation of Government Owned Contractor Operated R&D Facilities	5	34	$484,519,511
Dairy Foods and Eggs	47	126	$475,731,993
Advertising Services	12	34	$465,997,603
Communications Services	24	38	$447,895,113
Program Management/Support Services	148	355	$365,755,837
Commercialized Biomedical R&D	1	1	$354,256,000
Information Technology Support Equipment	91	278	$317,602,348
Emergency Response/Disaster Planning/Preparedness Support Services	38	123	$309,707,116
Production Buildings Construction	2	7	$306,290,013
Data Collection Services	22	41	$259,668,942
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Products Manufacturing Machinery	17	34	$218,245,752
Other Hospital Buildings Engineering & Architecture	16	45	$217,412,901
Other Hospital Buildings Construction	25	66	$211,538,695
Biomedical R&D	61	119	$205,630,656
Repair or Alteration of Hospitals And Infirmaries	107	256	$190,771,955
In Vitro Diagnostic Substances, Reagents, Test Kits and Sets	206	398	$170,782,963
Application/Application Development Support Services (Labor)	13	20	$165,281,360
Logistics Support Services	33	4,003	$164,913,488
Custodial Janitorial Services	1,248	3,888	$163,782,367
General Health Care	215	561	$159,139,340
Program Evaluation/Review/Development Services	29	61	$157,196,407
Special Purpose Clothing	215	671	$151,575,230
Restoration of Government Owned Real Property	2	22	$143,412,285
Nursing	102	476	$137,667,810
Lodging, Hotel/Motel Services	157	447	$132,958,286
Social Rehabilitation Services	51	208	$131,266,748
Information Technology Software	175	326	$131,185,760
Legal Services	31	53	$127,406,963
Production Buildings Repair	2	3	$119,900,000
Imaging Equipment and Supplies: Medical, Dental, Veterinary	102	322	$114,148,992
Gas Turbines And Jet Engines, Aircraft, Prime Moving and Components	5	8	$113,067,690
Safety and Rescue Equipment	106	750	$111,681,011
Telecommunications and Transmission	67	178	$110,193,122
Aeronautics/Space Technology Basic Research R&D	7	33	$84,195,535
Marine Lifesaving and Diving Equipment	14	41	$78,361,197
Teleprocessing, Timeshare, Cloud Computing, and High Performance Computing	10	23	$77,127,912
Repair or Alteration of Miscellaneous Buildings	24	52	$72,357,742
Courier/Messenger Services	37	123	$71,106,850
Data Center Products (Hardware and Perpetual License Software)	3	8	$67,330,569
Other Management Services	84	196	$66,626,841
Hospital Furniture, Equipment, Utensils and Supplies	216	499	$66,240,777
IT and Telecom Programming	29	54	$63,161,603
Other Travel Services	33	74	$62,282,274
Hospitals and Infirmaries Maintenance	111	216	$60,864,962
Medical/Health Special Studies/Analysis	19	26	$58,222,968
Warehousing/Storage Services	14	20	$58,034,928
IT and Telecom Help Desk	6	15	$57,239,502
Other Community Service/Development R&D (Engineering Development)	1	1	$57,200,000
Digital Computers	96	275	$57,122,708
Physical Science Applied Research/Exploratory Development R&D	33	50	$56,358,466
Operation of Dining Facilities	5	6	$55,019,342
Demolition of Buildings	1	6	$53,574,492
Air Passenger Services	5	27	$53,248,540
Specialized Medical Support	23	50	$52,529,817
Prefabricated and Portable Buildings	59	82	$51,919,002
Office Buildings Construction	32	56	$51,570,045
Medical, Dental and Veterinary Equipment Installation	12	18	$50,005,317
Other Administrative Services	110	244	$49,253,895
Operation of Government Owned Waste Treatment and Storage Facilities	2	17	$48,840,000
IT Help Desk Productivity Tools	26	52	$47,879,122
Demolition of Structures/Facilities (Other Than Buildings)	1	12	$47,662,284
Hospitals Construction	67	159	$47,526,174
Physical Security and Badging Services	32	143	$47,182,874
Business Application/Application Development Software as a Service	16	23	$45,239,618
Guard Services	104	318	$40,697,151
Data Center As A Service	3	5	$40,683,404
Facilities Operations Support Services	94	300	$39,194,706
AIDS Research R&D (Basic Research)	3	9	$37,765,633
Health Services R&D	6	19	$36,500,562
Other Environmental Services	42	97	$35,986,971
Information Technology Equipment System Configuration	67	193	$35,249,938
Other Non-Building Facilities Construction	11	24	$34,788,302
Specialized Flight Clothing and Accessories	18	29	$34,055,589
Evaluation/Screening	39	126	$32,408,574
Composite Food Packages	17	57	$30,463,861
Other Management/Support R&D	1	6	$30,442,760
Expenses for Health Care R&D Facilities and Major Equipment	1	4	$29,041,892
Information Technology Components	75	153	$28,767,891
IT and Telecom Systems Development	20	36	$28,725,397
Data (Other Than Scientific) Special Studies/Analysis	16	20	$28,070,779
Information Technology Supplies	36	93	$27,941,047
Telecommunications Network Management	14	46	$26,854,897
Live Animals Rental	10	19	$26,826,672

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About this data

This data comes from the Federal Procurement Data System, which includes all contracts worth $10,000 or more. We look at all contracts that are tagged with the procurement code for COVID-19 or otherwise started in 2020 and contain “COVID-19” in the description. Department of Defense contracting data is subject to a 90-day delay before it appears in the data.