Big FOOT Suction LLC is a woman-owned small business based in Sarasota, Florida. It started with one product, a better OR floor suction device, and grew into a manufacturer and strategic sourcing partner that health systems across the country rely on. The philosophy has not changed: products as good, or better, for less, with price transparency and real partnership.
Big FOOT makes its own flagship line rather than reselling someone else’s. There is no distributor margin stacked on top of a manufacturer margin, which is the entire reason the price comparison keeps landing the way it does.
Every dollar of Big FOOT spend is reportable Woman-Owned Small Business purchasing. Most diversity programs ask you to pay a premium for that. This one comes with documented savings attached.
No call center, no portal queue, no case number. You get the person who can actually price the thing you are asking about, which matters most on the Friday afternoon when a product goes on allocation.
Three and five-year locked prices are standard. A savings number you can only bank for eleven months is not a savings number, it is a delay.
Every product can be trialed free with no purchase commitment. Clinicians get to reject it before supply chain has to defend it.
Send three line items with what you pay today and you get a benchmark back, including the lines where you are already buying it cheaper than Big FOOT can supply it.
Big FOOT is founded in Sarasota, Florida, on the idea of a better OR floor suction device, one that improves safety, reduces costs, and minimizes waste. The original suite of floor suction devices, absorbent mats, and suction mats is still in production today.
Big FOOT becomes a trusted manufacturer and supplier to health systems, expanding into fluid waste manifolds, HEPA filters, tourniquets, corner protectors, and distribution of fluid waste systems with service and support across the US.
When the pandemic breaks global supply chains, Big FOOT delivers more than 100 million masks to US hospitals in a single year, and the strategic sourcing arm of the business is forged in the process.
25+ product categories manufactured and sourced for 45 health systems and surgical facilities across 15 states. If a product is not in the catalog, Big FOOT can source it: backorders, custom kits, off-contract conversions, and diversity sourcing.
Every dollar of Big FOOT product spend qualifies as Woman-Owned Small Business purchasing, reportable against supplier diversity commitments. And because Big FOOT competes on price first, that diversity credit comes with documented savings attached rather than a premium. Several Big FOOT customers use the partnership specifically for diversity supply credit.
Call 404-488-5656, request samples, or send three line items for a free price benchmark. We look forward to serving your health system.