American Medical Association

American Medical Association (doing business as A M A), a tax-exempt corporate entity headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is a prime contractor delivering medical coding systems, physician credentialing databases, and digital journal subscriptions to 73 federal agencies—competing entirely under full-and-open procurement without set-aside designations. The organization operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards); it does not subcontract.

AMA's federal portfolio centers on four concrete product and service lines grounded in its proprietary medical intellectual property. Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code licensing represents a significant portion of AMA's federal revenue, sold annually to the Department of Veterans Affairs as sole-source purchases under FAR Part 13 simplified acquisition procedures—CPT codes are mandated under HIPAA for all electronic healthcare transactions and available exclusively through AMA. The Department of Veterans Affairs alone has awarded recurring CPT license purchase orders valued at roughly $16,500 to $16,800 annually (VISN 9 and VA Technology Acquisition Center Austin). AMA's Physician Professional Data File—a software license and database product providing searchable physician credentialing, background, and certification information—anchors a $900,930 definitive contract with the VA Strategic Acquisition Center Frederick running through July 2029, generating SCI-reported invoicing of $177 thousand in FY2024 and $1.4 million in FY2025 at a government-paid rate of roughly $212.74 per hour. AMA's Doctor's Profiles Online Database subscription, a web-based physician background resource, is purchased annually by the Social Security Administration (34 awards across the portfolio, $2.5 million combined potential value) to support disability adjudication and claims processing; recent renewal purchases run $107,625 to $48,000 per fiscal year. JAMA and related AMA Network journal subscriptions—digital access to the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Pediatrics, and related peer-reviewed medical publications—are procured by the Department of Agriculture (6 awards, $866 thousand), the Social Security Administration, NASA, and the Defense Health Agency; a recent USDA five-year subscription through September 2031 was valued at $247,761.46.

Customer concentration is moderate and split across civilian healthcare and benefits administration agencies. The top five customer agencies by potential value account for 59% of the portfolio: the Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center Austin (20 awards, $7.9 million), the Social Security Administration (34 awards, $2.5 million), the Department of the Army Medical Command (13 awards, $1.3 million), the Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service (19 awards, $1.1 million), and the Department of Agriculture (6 awards, $866 thousand). By award count, the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service places 36 awards, but this group carries minimal dollar magnitude and reflects real-estate-related transactions rather than AMA's core healthcare products. SCI-reportable service contract invoicing totaled $1.6 million across FY2022–FY2025, with $177 thousand in FY2024 and $1.4 million in FY2025; the FY2025 spike reflects increased utilization of the VA physician credentialing subscription contract.

AMA sits on the GSA Basic Ordering Agreement GS11B70317 (20 task orders), the IDC V10193P2126 (3 task orders, $1.2 million), and the IDC MDA90381C0401 (2 task orders), enabling task-order procurement across federal agencies. Most of AMA's awards, however, are individual purchase orders issued under simplified acquisition or firm-fixed-price arrangements without standing IDVs. Awards across the portfolio are predominantly classified as Support–Administrative (Other) under PSC codes (1,382 awards) and Miscellaneous Items (348 awards), reflecting AMA's position as a specialized vendor of information products and professional resources rather than a service provider.

Activity has moderated recently—eight awards in 2022 declining to five in 2026—with six awards (combined potential value $740 thousand) facing ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure. Six awards are recompeting within the next two years, though the dollar magnitude is relatively small relative to AMA's total portfolio. In August 2024, AMA received its largest recent contract: a definitive $900,930 physician credentialing subscription with the VA Strategic Acquisition Center Frederick running through July 2029. In September 2024, AMA secured a $69,750 five-year digital subscription to the AMA Guides with the Department of Labor's Office of Workers Compensation Program. In September 2026, AMA began a new five-year $247,761.46 JAMA journal subscription with USDA.

AMA also operates as a federal grant recipient. In August 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded AMA a cooperative agreement (CDC-RFA-PW24-0080, CFDA category not specified in source) for capacity-building assistance to physicians and medical students on evidence-based preventive interventions, policies, and public health infrastructure alignment, with performance through July 2029. This is AMA's sole identified federal grant in the source data.

AMA's federal footprint reflects its unique market position as the exclusive steward of CPT codes, the JAMA journal network, and proprietary physician credentialing databases—assets that drive sole-source procurement designations and limit competitive displacement on the organization's core products.