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VA's three-year Salesforce CRM contract with V3GATE logs $576.9M obligation, action date ten days past stated period end
Daily briefing2026-07-12

VA's three-year Salesforce CRM contract with V3GATE logs $576.9M obligation, action date ten days past stated period end

On July 10, 2026, the Department of Veterans Affairs obligated $576.9 million against an ongoing Salesforce customer relationship management contract with V3GATE, LLC, procured through the NASA SEWP vehicle [award:88294]. Work began June 26, 2023; the contract's stated period of performance ran through June 30, 2026 — making the action date ten days post-period.

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Weekly newsletter2026-07-06

Medicaid's $301 Billion Day and DOE's Lab Sweep Set a 12-Week Spending Record

One brief each Sunday. The week's top awards, regulatory shifts, opportunities closing — synthesized from the same pipeline that powers the daily briefing above.

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Medicaid's $301 Billion Day and DOE's Lab Sweep Set a 12-Week Spending Record
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This week, in numbers

What hit the wire this week

Total awarded
$1.1T
Past 7 days
Awards
325
New this week
Rules published
36
Past 7 days, Federal Register
Grants closing
106
Next 7 days
Signal, not noise

What's actually changing

We don't surface the same lab-management contracts every week.
New entrants

Recipients newly tracked

Recipients whose first tracked federal award landed in the past 24 months. Worth a closer look — new vendors, new programs, new policy directions.

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Contracts above $10M with period_end inside the next 12 months. If you're a competitor, this is your shortlist. If you're an incumbent, this is your defense calendar.

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Sector momentum

Where it's heating up

Which sectors are accumulating dollars right now, by LLM-classified award. Snapshot, last 30 days of enrichments.

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USAspending.gov
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