The Daily LedgerMoney Trail | Federal Spending
Money Trail: A $7.4 million Veterans Affairs delivery order went to TrillaMed on October 14
USAspending records for October 9 to 15, 2026 show a $7,390,623.16 delivery order to TRILLAMED LLC from the Department of Veterans Affairs covering NX orders placed for the month of September 2026.
Key takeaways
- The Department of Veterans Affairs obligated $7,390,623.16 to TRILLAMED LLC on October 14, 2026, under delivery order 36C10X27K0046.
- The award description covers NX orders placed for the month of September 2026, recorded in the federal record as an express report of those orders.
- The single order accounts for about 3.9 percent of all Veterans Affairs contract obligations recorded in the October 9 to 15 window, which totaled $188,474,564.40 across 1,292 transactions.
The named recipient behind the Veterans Affairs total
Most contract coverage stops at the department total. The record underneath it names a recipient, and this week that name is TRILLAMED LLC. The Department of Veterans Affairs obligated $7,390,623.16 to the company on October 14, 2026. Followers of the Money Trail get one named recipient from the records, every day, and this order is the detail the weekly department totals skipped.
The action is a delivery order, which means it places work under an existing contract vehicle rather than starting a new competition from zero. The record lists the award as 36C10X27K0046 and describes the purpose in plain terms: NX orders placed for the month of September 2026. In the Veterans Affairs system, NX refers to the non-expendable equipment ordering program that supplies medical centers with equipment.
What the size of the order says about the week
Veterans Affairs recorded $188,474,564.40 in contract obligations across 1,292 transactions from October 9 to 15, 2026, and this one order is about 3.9 percent of that total. Unlike a week carried by a single order, the Veterans Affairs week was spread across more than a thousand transactions, and this delivery order sits near the top of that list without dominating it.
For scale, the same debt total that frames every Ledger report stood at $40,413,639,012,305.97 on October 21, 2026, or 40.4 trillion dollars, with debt per resident at $117,867. Contract orders like this one are a small, named part of the withdrawals that move through the Treasury every day. Tomorrow the Money Trail names the next recipient from the latest records, and the trail continues.
Data vintage: USAspending contract records with action dates from October 9 to 15, 2026, compiled in the Ledger contractors file dated October 19, 2026. Figures are net federal action obligations per transaction in that window.
Sources
1. USAspending award record for delivery order 36C10X27K0046: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_36C10X27K0046_3600_36C10G22D0032_3600/
2. USAspending, official federal award spending database: https://www.usaspending.gov/
3. U.S. Department of the Treasury, Fiscal Data, Debt to the Penny dataset: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement, September 28, 2026; Debt to the Penny.
Sources and methodology
Methodology. Daily cash figures are from the U.S. Treasury’s Daily Treasury Statement (DTS) for September 28, 2026, the government’s official daily cash-flow report. The DTS records money actually moving in and out of Treasury accounts; it is not the same as the budget deficit, which is measured monthly on an accrual-adjusted basis.
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement – operating cash balance, September 28, 2026 (fiscaldata.treasury.gov)
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, Debt to the Penny – September 28, 2026 (fiscaldata.treasury.gov)
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