Optum Public Sector Solutions, Inc.

Optum Public Sector Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated and based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, operates as a prime federal contractor delivering healthcare claims processing, community care network operations, dental network administration, and healthcare IT services to the Department of Veterans Affairs and other federal agencies on a full-and-open basis without SBA certifications. The vendor competes exclusively as a large business across 265 prime awards carrying $516.23 billion in combined potential value, with zero subcontract activity in the source footprint.

Optum's federal work concentrates overwhelmingly in VA healthcare administration. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 accounts for 57 awards valued at $393.79 billion combined potential value—76% of all dollars in the portfolio. The Department of Veterans Affairs proper holds an additional 116 awards worth $76.37 billion, and VA Headquarters accounts for 11 awards worth $45.94 billion. Combined, VA entities represent approximately 98% of the vendor's measurable federal contracting footprint. The next-largest customer, the Office of Personnel Management, carries only $12.5 million across 7 awards—a signal of extreme customer concentration anchored entirely to the VA's Community Care Network modernization and dental network initiatives. Within the VA, Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 (VISN 19) is the dominant contracting entity; the source data show 57 VISN 19 awards, many of which are multi-billion-dollar option-year task orders and express-report delivery orders issued monthly or quarterly against three core Community Care Network regional Indefinite Delivery Contracts (36C79119D0004, 36C79119D0005, and 36C79119D0006).

Optum's capability portfolio centers on three concrete service lines grounded in its award history. First, community care network operations for veterans: the vendor holds three regional IDCs that collectively deliver healthcare provider network management, claims processing, pharmacy benefits administration, utilization management, referral coordination, and medical documentation services across VA's Community Care Network (CCN) program. Recent awards include three Option Year 7 task orders issued October 1, 2025, valued at $4.817 billion, $6.807 billion, and $5.473 billion respectively for Regions 1, 3, and 2, running through September 30, 2026. Second, dental network implementation and operations: Optum Public Sector Solutions received a $50.9 million delivery order from the VA on October 1, 2026, for CCN Next Generation Dental Network implementation, with performance in La Crosse, Wisconsin and completion targeted September 30, 2027. This order executes under a single-award IDC with a $30 billion ceiling and a September 29, 2036 completion date, awarded September 30, 2026, for nationwide dental provider network operations. Third, healthcare IT support and reporting: the vendor issues dozens of monthly and quarterly express-report delivery orders to the VA, ranging from $400 million to $1.3 billion each, supporting healthcare administration systems and data analytics across three VA regions.

Optum holds three permanent parent vehicles anchoring its VA business. Indefinite Delivery Contract 36C79119D0005 (Community Care Network Region 3) carries 55 task orders valued at $79.35 billion combined potential. Indefinite Delivery Contract 36C79119D0006 (Community Care Network Region 2) carries 55 task orders valued at $117.77 billion combined potential. Indefinite Delivery Contract 36C79119D0004 (Community Care Network Region 1) carries 57 task orders valued at $84.66 billion combined potential. These three vehicles alone account for $281.78 billion of the $516.23 billion total portfolio. Additionally, Optum holds 69 task orders across GSA's Multiple Award Schedule worth $69.4 million, primarily for labor categories spanning analyst through vice-president-level consulting roles at hourly rates from $123.43 to $409.07, and holds a position on the $1 trillion OASIS contract for government-wide task orders. Two new IDCs awarded in late 2026 signal near-term expansion: the Community Care Network Next Generation (CCN NextGen) Medical Services multiple-award IDC with a $1 trillion ceiling (awarded January 1, 2027) and the single-award CCN Next Generation Dental Network IDC with a $30 billion ceiling (awarded September 30, 2026).

Activity has grown sharply over the measurement window. Awards-per-year data show 27 awards in FY2023, 39 in FY2024, 39 in FY2025, 20 in FY2026, and 1 in FY2027. However, FY2026 and FY2027 counts reflect only a partial-year slice and do not represent a slowdown; the source shows dozens of multi-billion-dollar express-report delivery orders issued monthly throughout late 2024, 2025, and 2026. Only three awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, with combined potential value of $775.4 million—a minimal recompete exposure given the vendor's core dependency on three multi-year, multi-billion-dollar regional CCN IDCs that extend through September 2026 for current option years and through 2036 under newly awarded nextgen contracts. From a recompete risk perspective, the vendor faces substantial pressure: the three existing regional CCN IDCs (36C79119D0004, 36C79119D0005, and 36C79119D0006) are scheduled to complete Option Year 7 on September 30, 2026, and transition to the new CCN NextGen structure already in place as of January 2027.

Service Contract Inventory data capture Optum's federal services work above the $150,000 reporting threshold. SCI-reported invoiced revenue totaled $40.13 billion across FY2022–FY2025, with $21.56 billion in FY2025 alone across 1,174 FTEs, $18.25 billion in FY2024 across 1,617 FTEs, $303.2 million in FY2023 across 2,747 FTEs, and $19.5 million in FY2022 across 108 FTEs. The dramatic growth from FY2022 to FY2024 and stabilization in FY2025 reflects the scaling of Community Care Network task order execution. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates showed a median of $5,080.61/hr, with 10th percentile rates around $87.66/hr and 90th percentile rates around $6,210.37/hr—a wide spread reflecting the mix of analyst-level labor and claims-processing operations blended across the portfolio. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, named subcontractors account for an average 22% share of total contractor hours, with 965 total named subcontractors reported. However, the top_customers_by_potential_value block shows zero sub-award activity in the award footprint, and the prime_vs_sub_split confirms 265 prime awards (100%) and zero sub-awards (0%), indicating that subcontractor hours are embedded within Optum's prime service delivery rather than awarded as discrete federal sub-contracts.

Optum Public Sector Solutions operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Optum Serve, LLC, itself a Limited Liability Company subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, a diversified healthcare company with substantial federal contracting presence across multiple agencies. The vendor's federal footprint, while diversified in absolute agency count (30 distinct customers served), is functionally concentrated in a single customer (the VA) through a single program (Community Care Network) executed across three regional platforms. The source data reflect only prime activity; Optum does not appear in the federal contracting footprint as a named subcontractor to other primes.