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$489,182,436

Department of Veterans Affairs·Department of Veterans Affairs

to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

veteransactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2023 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2023-04-15·LATEST ACTION2026-05-28·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_36C10D23N0010_3600_36C10E19D0018_3600
Award description

BENEFITS TRANSFORMATION PLATFORM

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

Latest obligation on the VA's multi-year Benefits Transformation Platform contract with IBM, modernizing veteran benefits delivery systems.

Sub-sectors
va-benefits-modernizationit-infrastructureplatform-transformation
Why this matters

The VA's digital infrastructure overhaul directly affects how 9+ million veterans access healthcare, disability pay, and education benefits; modernization reduces processing delays and improves service delivery.

Supply-chain signal

IBM's role as prime integrator signals continued reliance on enterprise software vendors for federal benefits platforms; downstream impacts IT staffing and cloud infrastructure providers supporting VA systems.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-18. Cost: $0.002837.

Period of performance
Start
2023-04-15
End
2027-05-20
Status
activein 324 days
Sources

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