$4M of generative AI capacity for seven weeks — August 10 to September 30, ending exactly at the fiscal year boundary (Carahsoft)

1The date September 30

The U.S. federal fiscal year begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The end of this period of performance falls exactly on that last day, and the scope text states the coverage as August 10 through September 30. Budgets are allocated by year and generally have to be used within it, so short contracts clustering toward the year end are unremarkable in federal acquisition. A large amount over roughly seven weeks follows from that structure.

2Buying "model units"

Advanced Model Units in the scope indicates that generative AI capability is being procured as units. It is neither a software purchase nor a development engagement: it secures a bounded allowance of use over a defined period. Because generative AI costs move with consumption, procurement has little choice but to measure in how much can be used rather than in how many are built. The contract design itself differs from conventional goods and services.

3No awarding agency recorded

This data records no awarding agency for the order. It is captured as an order under parent contract 47QSWA18D008F, but which agency uses it cannot be determined from the record. This site does not fill in what the record does not contain, so the awarding organization is left unidentified.

4The span the records cover

Among the 222 federal spending records this site holds as of 2026-09-01, the earliest contract begins on 2018-09-28 and the latest on 2027-06-26 — a span of about nine years.

Contracts with a start date in the future appear because a record is registered when the award is published. The data holds not only what has happened but what is about to begin. Filtering by period for an aggregation means allowing for both ends.