# FBI seeks up to $88 million in AI compute hardware

_Published Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 6:06 PM EDT · Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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The FBI has issued a multiple-award contract opportunity seeking enterprise, rack-scale and pod-scale AI systems, inference servers, networking equipment and expansion hardware. The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has a collective ceiling of $88 million. The bureau says it wants the equipment for AI, machine learning, large-language-model training and inference, computer vision, analytics and enterprise workloads. It has not named a supplier or specified the GPUs' desired compute capability.

## Sources

- [DCD](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fbi-puts-out-call-for-ai-hardware-procurement-contracts/)

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Published: 2026-08-19T22:06:55.967Z
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