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$203,925,445

Department of Health and Human Services·Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

to MCKESSON SPECIALTY DISTRIBUTION LLC

biotechactive
ACTION DATE·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75D30123C17978_7523_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

CENTRALIZED VACCINE DISTRIBUTION

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

Centralized distribution of vaccines through McKesson Specialty Distribution to CDC.

Sub-sectors
vaccinespublic-health-infrastructuredistribution-logistics
Why this matters

Critical infrastructure for national vaccine supply chain resilience and pandemic preparedness.

Supply-chain signal

Indicates reliance on private logistics providers for government vaccine distribution; signals need for robust cold-chain and warehousing capacity.

U.S.–China competition angle

Demonstrates U.S. commitment to domestic vaccine distribution independence; relevant to biotech supply chain sovereignty.

Generated by award_classification v1.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-13. Cost: $0.001233.

Period of performance
Start
2024-02-01
End
2027-01-31
Status
activein 261 days
Sources

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