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$782,102,377

Department of Veterans Affairs·Department of Veterans Affairs

to OPTUM PUBLIC SECTOR SOLUTIONS, INC.

veteransexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-11-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-30·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_36C10G26K0210_3600_36C79119D0006_3600
Award description

EXPRESS REPORT: R3 FY26 1ST QTR NOV

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

Optum provides health insurance and administrative services for VA beneficiaries under the R3 (Retiree/Survivor/Dependent) program.

Sub-sectors
va-healthcare-administrationhealth-insurance-operations
Why this matters

This $782M obligation supports ongoing VA healthcare delivery to millions of veterans and their families through a major private contractor.

Supply-chain signal

Optum's role as VA's primary health plan administrator creates dependency on a single large vendor for critical veteran benefits processing and claims management.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002707.

Period of performance
Start
2025-11-01
End
2025-11-30
Status
expired212 days ago
Sources

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