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$260,424,386

Department of Health and Human Services·Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

to GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.

ai-infrastructureexpiring · 47d· period of performance ends in 47 days
ACTION DATE·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75FCMC25FJ022_7530_47QTCK18D0003_4732
Award description

THE CLOUD PRODUCTS AND TOOLS (CPT) CONTRACT IS USED TO PROVIDE CLOUD-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE FROM COMMERCIAL CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERS (CSP) SUCH AS MICROSOFT AZURE GOVERNMENT (MAG) AND AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS), AS WELL AS SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, TOOLS, PROF

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Provides cloud-based infrastructure and tools from commercial providers like Azure Government and AWS to CMS.

Sub-sectors
cloud-computinggovernment-it-infrastructure
Why this matters

Modernizes federal healthcare IT systems through commercial cloud platforms, critical for Medicare/Medicaid operations serving 150+ million beneficiaries.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for cloud service providers' government-certified infrastructure and increases reliance on Microsoft Azure Government and AWS for federal healthcare data.

U.S.–China competition angle

Strengthens U.S. cloud infrastructure capabilities in government sector, reducing dependence on foreign alternatives for sensitive healthcare data.

Generated by award_classification v1.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-13. Cost: $0.001416.

Period of performance
Start
2025-02-20
End
2026-06-30
Status
expiring · 47din 47 days
Sources

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