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You Bought Seven Things
In July 2026 Chainalysis's government arm sued over an ICE sole-source award of blockchain forensic software to TRM Labs. Using that dispute as a worked case, this brief asks what an intelligence-platform contract buys once general-purpose models are cheap, and how a buyer can test whether price still matches work. Built from the protest record, a parallel defense dispute, a GAO report on federal AI buying and federal model-pricing offers. For buyers renewing analytics contracts.
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