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Question: Investigate Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): Search USASpending for "GSA contracts with 'intelligence' or 'classified' keywords in description fields". Would reveal GSA serving as procurement intermediary for intelligence agencies. Report any findings as factual claims with dates and evidence.
Date: 2026-04-13
Research reveals that GSA does serve as a procurement intermediary for intelligence agencies, including the CIA, though much of this activity is obscured by classification requirements. The CIA explicitly does not report contract data to USASpending.gov for both classified and unclassified procurements to avoid revealing operational requirements. However, GSA's Office of Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS) generated over $16 billion in revenue in FY2023 handling complex contracts with classified elements, and the CIA is listed as an approved buyer through GSA's procurement systems.
The most documented example is the CIA's Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) contract awarded through intelligence community procurement processes to Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle, worth tens of billions over 15 years. This represents a shift from the previous single-award C2S contract to AWS. While GSA may not directly manage these intelligence contracts, the agency's role in federal procurement consolidation under the new Office of Centralized Acquisition Services suggests expanding involvement in cross-agency procurement functions that could include intelligence community support services.