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$184,035,735

Department of State·Department of State

to CITIBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

diplomacyactive
WORK BEGAN2025-09-30·LATEST ACTION2026-03-05·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_19AQMM25C0149_1900_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

APPLICATION PROCESSING SOLUTION (APS)

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

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: medium
In plain English

Citibank processes visa and passport applications for the State Department's consular operations.

Sub-sectors
visa-processingconsular-operationsstate-department-it
Why this matters

Consular processing is critical infrastructure for U.S. diplomatic presence; outsourcing to a major bank reflects operational scale and security requirements.

Supply-chain signal

Citibank's role as a financial intermediary for State Department consular services indicates reliance on private-sector payment and data-processing infrastructure for government operations.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-22. Cost: $0.002703.

Period of performance
Start
2025-09-30
End
2026-09-29
Status
activein 91 days
Sources

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