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$344,077,337

Department of Agriculture·Office of the Chief Financial Officer

to ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC

ai-infrastructureactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2017 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2017-09-19·LATEST ACTION2026-06-24·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_12314418F0020_1205_HHSN316201200002W_7529
Award description

USDA ENTERPRISE-SCALE FEDRAMP CERTIFIED CLOUD HOSTING SERVICES. IGF::OT::IGF

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 USDA's 2017 enterprise cloud hosting contract with Accenture for FedRAMP-certified infrastructure.

Sub-sectors
cloud-hostingfedramp-compliancegovernment-it-modernization
Why this matters

Consolidates USDA's IT systems onto secure federal cloud, reducing legacy infrastructure costs and improving agency resilience across food safety, farm programs, and rural services.

Supply-chain signal

Sustains demand for FedRAMP-certified cloud providers and federal IT integrators; signals continued government reliance on commercial cloud platforms meeting security standards.

U.S.–China competition angle

Demonstrates U.S. government shift to domestic cloud infrastructure with strict security certification, reducing exposure to foreign supply-chain risks in critical agricultural data systems.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-18. Cost: $0.003038.

Period of performance
Start
2017-09-19
End
2027-05-31
Status
activein 335 days
Sources

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