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Social Security Administration·Social Security Administration
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ACTION DATE2026-03-02·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_28321318C00060013_2800_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

NEW 66 MONTH OPEN-MARKET CONTRACT FOR RENEWAL OF CA SOFTWARE, SUPPORT SERVICES, AND MAINTENANCE. CA PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE PRODUCTS ARE USED EXTENSIVELY THROUGHOUT OUR MAINFRAME AND DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS AT ALL SSA DATA CENTERS.

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

Renewal contract for CA proprietary software, support services, and maintenance across SSA mainframe and distributed data center environments.

Sub-sectors
software-servicesit-infrastructuregovernment-operations
Why this matters

Ensures continuity of critical software infrastructure supporting Social Security Administration's core operations and citizen-facing services.

Supply-chain signal

Demonstrates sustained demand for enterprise software maintenance services and CA's entrenched position as SSA's primary software vendor.

Generated by award_classification v1.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-14. Cost: $0.001257.

Period of performance
Start
2018-03-22
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 138 days
Sources
  • Award record ingested from usaspending. Source identifier CONT_AWD_28321318C00060013_2800_-NONE-_-NONE-.

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