Colorado Department Of Public Health & Environment

Colorado Department Of Public Health & Environment, a division of the City of Lakewood, operates as a federal grant recipient and federal contract prime across public health, environmental compliance, food safety, vital statistics, and laboratory services delivered statewide in Colorado and at federally designated sites. The agency competes exclusively in full-and-open federal grant and contract vehicles with no small-business set-asides; its federal footprint consists almost entirely of prime awards (98% of recent work) spanning grants, indefinite delivery contracts, blanket purchase agreements, and purchase orders issued by civilian health, agriculture, and environmental agencies.

CDPHE's recent federal activity spans 1,375 awards with combined potential value of $601 million, though SCI-reportable service contract invoicing totaled only $754 thousand across FY2022–FY2025, reflecting CDPHE's role as a state agency delivering specialized public health and environmental services rather than as a commercial contractor. The agency generated activity across 89 distinct federal customer agencies in the past several years, with heaviest concentration among the CDC (139 awards by count), USDA Food and Nutrition Service (99 awards), EPA (94 awards), and USDA Forest Service Region 2 (70 awards). By potential dollar value, the top customers shift: FDA leads with $43 million in potential value across 38 awards for human food inspections and tobacco retail inspections; CDC Pittsburgh follows with $17.4 million across 27 awards for vital statistics cooperative program services; and CDC Office of Acquisition Services accounts for $12.6 million across 20 awards. Social Security Administration contributes $9.4 million across 30 awards for enumeration-at-birth and electronic death records services.

CDPHE holds significant indefinite delivery vehicles anchoring recurring task-order flow: an FDA single-award IDC for Colorado tobacco retail inspections carries an $8.4 million ceiling through September 2029 and has generated two delivery orders valued at $1.04 million and $1.53 million respectively. A CDC single-award indefinite delivery contract for Vital Statistics Cooperative Program services carries a $7.67 million ceiling through April 2027 and has funded data processing and technical assistance for birth and death certificate reporting. The agency also operates under multiple blanket purchase agreements with FDA, Social Security Administration, and others, placing task orders for laboratory testing, vital records services, food safety compliance, and environmental monitoring. Top parent vehicles by task-order count include FDA BPA HHSI247200810089B (27 task orders), USDA Forest Service BPA AG82X9B170031 (16 task orders), and CDC BPA HHSI247201300022B (12 task orders).

Capability portfolio centers on public health surveillance, laboratory analysis, food and tobacco regulatory inspection, vital statistics data management, environmental monitoring, and emergency preparedness coordination. Representative contract work includes an FDA definitive contract valued at $1.54 million (July 2026 – December 2031) for Colorado human food inspections; an FDA delivery order for $1.57 million for Colorado state tobacco retail inspections (May 2026 – May 2027, cost-no-fee); a CDC delivery order for $376 thousand for National Center for Health Statistics Vital Statistics Cooperative Program services (January 2026 – May 2027, firm fixed price); an FDA delivery order for $1.04 million for tobacco retail inspections through September 2029 (cost-no-fee); and FEMA purchase order for $100 thousand for BioWatch laboratory technical and management support (September 2026 – September 2027). Recent purchase orders also cover smoke permitting support for USDA Forest Service ($28.2 thousand, August 2026), BioWatch state and local laboratory support for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office ($90 thousand, September 2025 – September 2026), and CDC NDI data and surveillance work in the $35–$105 thousand range. Social Security Administration has awarded two significant vehicles: a purchase order for enumeration-at-birth and race/ethnicity records services valued at $2.24 million (June 2024 – June 2029) and an electronic death records contract valued at $1.90 million (December 2023 – December 2028).

Federal grant footprint is extensive and reflects CDPHE's role as a state public health and environmental agency. Recent grants span formula allocations, project grants, cooperative agreements, and block grants across CDC, EPA Region 8, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and others. Representative awards include the CDC Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant ($2.05 million, September 2026 – September 2027), EPA Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Emerging Contaminants Grant for small and disadvantaged communities ($41.8 million, April 2025 – March 2030), USDA WIC formula grants totaling $66.9 million for food expenses (October 2025 – September 2026) and $26.6 million for WIC administrative expenses (October 2025 – September 2026), USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program formula grants totaling $13.6 million and $19.4 million (October 2025 – September 2026 and through 2027), EPA Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants ($1.95 million, October 2024 – September 2029), and HRSA Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant ($19.1 million, October 2025 – September 2027). CDPHE distributes sub-awards to county health departments, regional water quality planning associations, community-based organizations, and local agencies to execute nutrition assistance, water quality improvement, wildfire preparedness, and disease surveillance programming.

SCI-reported invoicing for FY2024 totaled $360 thousand on a 0.5-FTE delivery model; government-paid hourly rates on these service contracts centered at $355.83/hr. Activity declined from FY2023 ($394 thousand) and the agency performed no named subcontracting across SCI records, indicating that CDPHE delivers federal services primarily through direct staff rather than through subcontractor networks.

Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months spans 68 awards with combined potential value of $5 million, reflecting steady-state renewal of recurring public health, food safety, laboratory, and environmental monitoring contracts and grants.