Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration

The Department of State Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration is a civilian bureau within the State Department that funds and contracts for refugee resettlement, humanitarian assistance, and population-policy programs worldwide. The bureau operates through both federal contracting and grant mechanisms, with grant-making dominating its transactional volume and total federal dollars obligated.

The bureau has awarded 425 federal contracts totaling $921.9 million in potential value, with $553.3 million obligated across 132 distinct prime contractors since 2008. Contract activity has declined sharply in recent years: 65 awards in 2022, 50 in 2023, 21 in 2024, 15 in 2025, and 12 year-to-date in 2026. Competitive concentration is highly fragmented — the top five primes by award count hold 45 percent of recent awards but individually represent small transaction volumes. New TECH Solutions, Inc. leads by count with 25 awards but only $94 thousand combined potential value; Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees account for 24 awards with $759 thousand combined potential value. The largest value player among recent awardees is Goldbelt C6, LLC at $17.4 million across six awards, followed by Deloitte & Touche LLP at $14.5 million across nine awards. The top five by value hold only 6 percent of combined potential value, indicating severe fragmentation by dollars as well. Contract awards are predominantly open competition — 90 percent carry no set-aside designation. Small-business set-asides account for 5 percent of awards, with 8(a) sole-source awards representing 2 percent and competitive 8(a), HUBZone, and service-disabled veteran-owned small business each under 1 percent.

Grant-making is the bureau's primary funding vehicle, with 4,278 awards obligating $11.22 billion in federal dollars since 2006. Recent grant activity also shows decline: 302 awards in 2022, 284 in 2023, 266 in 2024, 35 in 2025, and 30 year-to-date in 2026. Grant recipients are moderately concentrated — the top five by award count hold 24 percent of recent awards; the top five by federal dollars hold 12 percent. International Rescue Committee, Inc. leads by both count and value with 68 awards obligating $502.5 million federal dollars. Church World Service, Inc. leads by value alone at $507.7 million across 25 awards. Cooperative Agreements dominate the assistance-type mix at 84 percent of awards, with Project Grants accounting for 16 percent. Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees appear in both the grant and contract rankings, indicating significant overseas NGO and implementing-partner engagement.

No recent contract or grant opportunities are recorded against the bureau or its descendant offices.