# Intent to Sole Source to Anthropic Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/7571te27r00001 - Solicitation number: 7571TE27R00001 - Notice type: Special notice - Status: Closed. Deadline was October 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT - Department: Department of Health and Human Services - Agency: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources - Contracting office: Omas Strategic Buying Center - Information Technology (7571TE) - NAICS: 541512 Computer Systems Design Services - Product or service code: DA10 Support services, delivered as a service contract (SaaS or Subscription) involved with the analysis, design, development, code, test and release packaging services associated with application development projects, as well as off-the-shelf Business software. - Place of performance: Rockville, Maryland - County: Montgomery County (FIPS 24031). https://abierto.us/counties/montgomery-county-md-24031 - City: Rockville. https://abierto.us/cities/rockville-md-2467675 - First posted: October 19, 2026 - Last posted: October 19, 2026 - SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/3280f97fd5a045459cf5e0e31ea1415d/view ## 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. ## Open now in the same industry 20 open in NAICS 541512. - Enterprise Inventory Management (SaaS), due November 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM EST. https://abierto.us/opportunities/a5f6b56af8c94d168a081571b56e002f - Enterprise Next (ENX) RFI (80GSFC27R0018), due November 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM EST. https://abierto.us/opportunities/80gsfc27r0018 - Civilian Mariner Wireless Network (CivMar WiN) Installation and Sustainment Follow-on Contract (N3220527R6100), due November 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM EST. https://abierto.us/opportunities/n3220527r6100 ## Publications - October 19, 2026: Special notice, due October 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT. Notice 3280f97fd5a045459cf5e0e31ea1415d. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/3280f97fd5a045459cf5e0e31ea1415d/view ## Points of contact - Joseph Kozar, joseph.kozar@hhs.gov --- Source: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities bulk extract. Confirm deadlines on SAM.gov before responding. Cite https://abierto.us/opportunities/7571te27r00001.