The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a notice of intent to award a sole-source contract to Anthropic to maintain enterprise access to its Claude artificial intelligence (AI) models and advanced features for authorized HHS personnel.
The limited continuity-of-services requirement covers Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government, including advanced reasoning, drafting and summarization, research, document and data analysis, coding assistance, developer tools, agentic workflows, enterprise connectors, secure API access and administrative controls.
The requirement also includes enterprise security and data-handling provisions covering single sign-on, role-based access controls, audit logging, encryption, data residency and restrictions on the use of HHS data for model training.
HHS states that the interim award is intended to maintain its existing Claude deployment pending award of the competitive HHS Enterprise Frontier SI Models and Advanced Features multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). The notice does not identify the anticipated BPA award date, value or prospective awardees.
Intended Awardee: ANTHROPIC
Agency: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Contracting Office: OMAS STRATEGIC BUYING CENTER, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Requirement: ENTERPRISE CLAUDE AI MODELS AND ADVANCED FEATURES
Planned Acquisition: HHS ENTERPRISE FRONTIER SI MODELS AND ADVANCED FEATURES MULTIPLE-AWARD BPA
Notice ID: 7571TE27R00001
Acquisition Type: Notice of Intent to Sole Source
