Minnesota Department Of Health

Minnesota Department Of Health Financial Management Division, a U.S. state government entity headquartered in St. Paul, is the primary recipient of federal grants supporting public health programs and the prime contractor on vital statistics and public health surveillance contracts with federal civilian agencies. The division operates as a grant recipient on 81% of its recent awards, working predominantly under full-and-open federal grant programs spanning disease control, maternal and child health, nutrition assistance, water infrastructure, and emergency preparedness rather than competing in set-aside categories.

The division's federal footprint centers on three capability clusters. First, vital statistics and death records management: the division maintains the National Death Index and operates enumeration-at-birth and electronic death records systems serving 54 states and jurisdictions under contracts with the Social Security Administration (29 awards, $11.1 million combined potential value) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (43 awards, $42.4 million combined potential value). Recent work includes a $438,720 delivery order with CDC Pittsburgh for National Center for Health Statistics Vital Statistics Program (NCHS VSP) services under a single-award indefinite delivery contract running through April 2027, and a $2.3 million Social Security Administration purchase order for enumeration-at-birth and race-ethnicity records management extending through June 2029. Second, disease surveillance and laboratory capacity: the division delivers epidemiologic surveillance, laboratory testing, outbreak response, and vaccine-preventable disease monitoring through cooperative agreements with CDC (142 awards), supporting work on emerging infectious diseases, tuberculosis elimination, HIV prevention, immunization coverage, and pandemic preparedness. Third, federal nutrition and maternal-child health grants: the division administers the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) statewide, receiving formula grants for food expenses, breastfeeding peer counselor services, and program administration totaling approximately $78.3 million annually as of October 2025, alongside cooperative agreements for maternal and child home visiting, lead hazard reduction, and rural health transformation.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward health and human services agencies. The top five funders account for 35% of recent awards by count, led by CDC with 142 awards, the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service with 129 awards combined across multiple grant programs, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services with 68 awards. By dollar value, CDC Pittsburgh commands 54% of the top-customer concentration, with Social Security Administration and CDC's Office of Acquisition Services accounting for the remainder of the 81% coverage figure. The Environmental Protection Agency ranks fourth by award count (66 awards) with project and formula grants supporting water quality monitoring, drinking water system supervision, lead testing in schools and childcare facilities, beach monitoring, and emerging contaminant remediation.

The division places task orders under five named indefinite delivery contracts: a basic ordering agreement with HHS carrying 10 task orders valued at $2.8 million, Social Security Administration IDCs with 15 task orders combined ($1.9 million), and HHS IDCs carrying 12 task orders ($2.5 million). No GWAC or government-wide vehicle participation is evident in the source material; work flows through agency-specific IDIQs and BPAs.

Activity has remained relatively stable but shows a recent downturn: the division received 84 awards in 2022, declining to 54 in 2025 and 9 year-to-date in 2026, suggesting a data collection lag rather than a trend decline. Fifty-six awards face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $580 thousand, representing modest recompete exposure. The division holds a sub-recipient posture on approximately 218 awards (19% of the portfolio), receiving subawards from the Minnesota Department of Human Services (supporting Medicaid administration and refugee services), the Association of Public Health Laboratories (vaccine-preventable disease testing), the Regents of the University of Minnesota (research partnerships), and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (disease surveillance and zoonoses education). By classification, the division's primary work falls under NAICS 928110 (Administration of Public Health Programs), with secondary categories in data processing and laboratory testing services.