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$420,206,224

Social Security Administration·Social Security Administration

to CA, INC.

financeactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2018 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2018-03-22·LATEST ACTION2026-05-19·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 of CA software licenses, support, and maintenance for Social Security Administration mainframe and distributed computing environments across all data centers.

Sub-sectors
it-infrastructuremainframe-operationsgovernment-it-modernization
Why this matters

SSA processes retirement, disability, and survivor benefits for 67+ million Americans. Mainframe software reliability is critical to uninterrupted benefit payments and claims processing.

Supply-chain signal

Continued dependence on CA Technologies (Broadcom subsidiary) proprietary mainframe software; limited vendor alternatives in legacy enterprise environments.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002861.

Period of performance
Start
2018-03-22
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 92 days
Sources

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