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$110,364,715

Department of the Treasury·Internal Revenue Service

to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

financeexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2020 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2020-09-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-02·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_2032H520F00469_2050_47QTCK18D0014_4732
Award description

MODERNIZE EFILE: 3/24/2025-TERMINATION FOR CONVENIENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH EXECUTIVE ORDERS

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

Termination of IBM's eFile modernization contract that began in 2020, ending the IRS digital filing system upgrade.

Sub-sectors
irs-modernizationcontract-termination
Why this matters

The IRS halted a multi-year, $110M modernization effort mid-stream, signaling potential shifts in federal IT strategy or budget constraints affecting tax administration infrastructure.

Supply-chain signal

IBM loses a major government IT services contract; the IRS must now reassess eFile modernization approach, potentially redirecting work to other vendors or in-house teams.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-27. Cost: $0.002858.

Period of performance
Start
2020-09-01
End
2024-06-29
Status
expired744 days ago
Sources

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