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$284,485,632

Department of Health and Human Services·Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

to GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.

healthexpiring · 0d· period of performance ends in 0 daysONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-02-20·LATEST ACTION2026-06-26·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75FCMC25FJ022_7530_47QTCK18D0003_4732
Award description

THE CLOUD PRODUCTS AND TOOLS (CPT) CONTRACT IS USED TO PROVIDE CLOUD-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE FROM COMMERCIAL CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERS (CSP) SUCH AS MICROSOFT AZURE GOVERNMENT (MAG) AND AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS), AS WELL AS SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, TOOLS, PROF

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

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In plain English

Latest obligation on the 2025 Cloud Products and Tools contract providing CMS with cloud infrastructure and software from AWS and Microsoft Azure Government.

Sub-sectors
medicare-infrastructurecloud-servicesit-modernization
Why this matters

CMS relies on commercial cloud platforms to modernize Medicare and Medicaid systems serving 150+ million beneficiaries; cloud migration is critical to system reliability and cost efficiency.

Supply-chain signal

Sustains demand for AWS GovCloud and Azure Government services; signals continued federal reliance on major cloud providers for healthcare IT infrastructure.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. cloud sovereignty: contract locks federal healthcare data into domestic (AWS/Microsoft) rather than foreign cloud providers, reinforcing strategic tech independence.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-19. Cost: $0.003045.

Period of performance
Start
2025-02-20
End
2026-06-30
Status
expiring · 0din 0 days
Sources

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