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$35,977,981

Department of Veterans Affairs·Department of Veterans Affairs

to MERLIN INTERNATIONAL, INC.

veteransexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2021 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2021-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-03-12·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_36C10B21F0345_3600_NNG15SC17B_8000
Award description

BENEFITS DELIVERY NETWORK NOVASCALE MAINFRAME MAINTENANCE

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

Maintenance and support for VA's Benefits Delivery Network NovaScale mainframe systems that process veteran benefits.

Sub-sectors
va-benefits-administrationit-infrastructuremainframe-operations
Why this matters

Critical infrastructure for timely delivery of disability, pension, and healthcare benefits to millions of veterans; system downtime directly impacts benefit payments.

Supply-chain signal

Indicates continued reliance on mainframe-based legacy systems for VA benefits processing; suggests ongoing demand for mainframe maintenance vendors and potential modernization opportunities.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002079.

Period of performance
Start
2021-10-01
End
2024-10-31
Status
expired565 days ago
Sources

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