Project Information

Bid Title

Intent to Sole Source to Anthropic

Issuing Agency

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF

Location

Maryland

Published Date

Oct 19, 2026

Closing Date

Oct 21, 2026

Government Level

Federal

Status

Closed

Ref. #

7571TE27R00001

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Set Aside

No Set aside used

Project Description

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Intent to Sole Source to Anthropic

Active

Contract Opportunity

Notice ID

7571TE27R00001

Related Notice

Department/Ind. Agency

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF

Sub-tier

OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR FINANCIAL RESOURCES (ASFR)

Office

OMAS STRATEGIC BUYING CENTER - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

General Information

• Contract Opportunity Type: Special Notice (Original)
• Original Published Date: Oct 19, 2026 08:14 am EDT
• Original Response Date: Oct 21, 2026 03:00 pm EDT
• Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
• Original Inactive Date: Nov 05, 2026
• Initiative:
  • None

Classification

• Original Set Aside: No Set aside used
• Product Service Code: DA10 - IT AND TELECOM - BUSINESS APPLICATION/APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE
• NAICS Code:
  • 541512 - Computer Systems Design Services
• Place of Performance:
  Rockville , MD 20857
  USA

Description

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. This is a notice of intent to solicit, negotiate and award a sole source contract under statutory authority 41 USC 1901, set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation 13.106-1(b)(1), Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements.

This action provides continued enterprise access to Anthropic's Claude frontier models and advanced features (Claude for Enterprise / Claude for Government) for authorized HHS workforce, users for a limited continuity of services award, pending award of the competitive HHS Enterprise Frontier SI Models and Advanced Features multiple-award BPA.

Covered capabilities include, as applicable: enterprise-wide access entitlement (general chat, mature reasoning, drafting/summarization, search, research, file/document workflows, reporting/analytics); highest-capability/premium reasoning models and long-context modes; document, file, and data-analysis workflows; coding assistance and developer tools; agentic and delegated-work features; connectors, projects/workspaces, and memory/personalization where authorized; web-grounded research where authorized; native applications and secure API/gateway access; and administrative controls (enterprise SSO, SCIM, RBAC, group/feature controls) with reporting/analytics and audit export.

The capability is specific to one provider: Claude is Anthropic's proprietary model family, and the requirement is continuity of the existing Claude deployment already integrated into HHS infrastructure (see Section 4). All access is delivered within the HHS-approved security and data-handling boundary: HHS data excluded from model training by default; FIPS 140-validated encryption in transit and at rest; CONUS data residency; HIPAA/BAA posture confirmed for PHI-eligible surfaces; exportable logging/audit; 1-hour security-incident notification; data retrievable within one business day on request; and secure deletion (NIST SP 800-88) with non-proprietary export at exit.

Please contact Frank Barnett at Frank.Barnett@hhs.gov if you have any questions.

Attachments/Links

Contact Information

Contracting Office Address

• 5600 Fishers Lane
• Rockville , MD 20857
• USA

Primary Point of Contact

• Joseph Kozar
• joseph.kozar@hhs.gov

Secondary Point of Contact

History

• Oct 19, 2026 08:14 am EDTSpecial Notice (Original)

Commodity Codes

• FSC DAutomatic Data Processing and Telecommunication Services

• NAICS 541512Computer Systems Design Services

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