The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has placed an $8 million order for ID.me identity services for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, using a new agreement that lets HHS buy sign-in and identity verification services from commercial providers, federal records show.
The order was signed on September 28 and runs for one year. Its description identifies it as a CMS order for ID.me “identity services” from a credential service provider, the term for a company that verifies a person’s identity and issues the login credential used to reach government websites. It was placed under a blanket purchase agreement with ID.me titled “FedHub Credential Service Provider,” which was signed on July 10 and carries a ceiling of $90 million. The agreement drew one offer and is recorded as awarded under full and open competition. HHS placed a first $3 million order under it on July 13.
The records show HHS has set up a parallel FedHub agreement for CLEAR. That agreement, held by reseller Carahsoft Technology and signed on September 17, carries an $85 million ceiling. It also drew a single offer, and HHS placed a $1 million order for CLEAR “base integration” on September 25. Both agreements were awarded through the General Services Administration’s centralized acquisition office and are funded by HHS’s Program Support Center. CLEAR is also piloting sign-in for veterans on VA.gov.
Accepting commercial credentials lets people reuse an identity they have already verified with a provider instead of creating a separate government account. A draft Office of Management and Budget memo would instead make the government’s own Login.gov the default sign-on across federal websites.
ID.me also sells directly to the Internal Revenue Service, whose earlier orders describe the licenses as supporting IRS Secure Access digital identity. The IRS signed a blanket purchase agreement with ID.me in December 2025, with ordering open through December 2030. Its order for calendar year 2026 was signed on December 31, 2025, at $30 million and raised to $65 million in June, with options valued at about $77.1 million. In earlier years, the IRS bought ID.me licenses through reseller V3Gate.
Sources: USAspending (CMS order), USAspending (CLEAR agreement), USAspending (IRS order)
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
