Utah Department Of Health And Human Services

The Utah Department of Health and Human Services operates as a state government entity and prime recipient of federal contracts and grants across health, nutrition, and emergency preparedness programs. As a direct arm of state government (child entity of the State of Utah), UDHHS does not compete under SBA set-asides and works exclusively through full-and-open federal awards in its role as state administering agency for Medicaid, WIC, nutrition programs, and public health initiatives.

UDHHS's federal footprint centers on vital statistics data collection, nutrition assistance administration, and public health surveillance and response. On the contract side, the agency holds a $3.3 million indefinite delivery contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for National Center for Health Statistics Vital Statistics Program services, through which it collects and reports birth, death, marriage, and divorce records to support CDC's national health statistics and public health monitoring. Representative contract work includes a $264,984 delivery order (April 2026, CDC Pittsburgh) for vital statistics data collection under the NCHS Vital Statistics Program, a $16,877 purchase order (June 2026, CDC Pittsburgh) for National Death Index maintenance under Executive Order 14398, and a $1.73 million purchase order (June 2024, Social Security Administration) for enumeration at birth and race/ethnicity records collection running through June 2029. UDHHS also holds awards for Electronic Death Records maintenance and electronic benefit transfer system modernization for the WIC program.

The grant portfolio reflects UDHHS's role as state Medicaid and WIC administering agency and public health infrastructure hub. The agency is a major recipient of entitlement block grants: in fiscal year 2026 alone, UDHHS received $8.11 billion through the Centers for Medicaid and Chip Services for Medicaid Title XIX medical assistance (CFDA 93.778) and $138.4 million for Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Title XXI (CFDA 93.767) coverage expansion. UDHHS administers formula grants for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC, CFDA 10.557), including separate allocations for food expenses ($32.1 million in fiscal year 2026), administrative expenses ($15.59 million), and breastfeeding peer counselor programs ($689,734). The agency holds cooperative agreements with CDC for rural health transformation ($782.97 billion, awarded December 2025, running through October 2030—the largest federal award), public health emergency preparedness and hospital preparedness ($7.6 million combined through June 2029), immunization surveillance and vaccine-preventable disease prevention (five cooperatives totaling over $5 million), and emerging infectious disease epidemiology and laboratory capacity ($3.5 million through July 2029). UDHHS is also recipient of project grants for maternal and child health services ($9.36 million, October 2025–September 2027), home visiting programs ($5.4 million through September 2027), early intervention for infants and toddlers with disabilities ($6.55 million through September 2026 under CFDA 84.181), and opioid overdose prevention and surveillance data work ($multi-year cooperative agreement). The agency sub-awards portions of Medicaid, CHIP, WIC, and maternal-child health funding to 14 county health departments and other local entities across Utah's 29 counties.

Federal customer concentration is spread across health and human services departments. The top five funding agencies (by award count) account for 43% of awards: the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service dominates with 121 awards across WIC and commodity food distribution programs, followed by the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (44 awards), CDC Pittsburgh (42 awards, $12.1 million), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (29 awards, mostly Medicaid and CHIP entitlements). By dollar value, CDC Pittsburgh anchors the portfolio at $12.1 million, followed by the Social Security Administration ($7.8 million for vital records and enumeration programs) and CDC's Office of Acquisition Services ($5.6 million).

Recent activity shows volume concentration in 2024 (98 awards) and 2023 (54 awards), with a sharp decline to 5 awards year-to-date in 2026, reflecting the snapshot nature of new obligation activity for state entitlement programs. Sixty-four awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next 24 months and combined potential value of $282,000, indicating modest recompete exposure in the immediate pipeline relative to the multi-billion-dollar Medicaid and CHIP entitlements that run continuously.

UDHHS operates through multiple parent vehicles: Basic Ordering Agreement HHSD200201250844I (HHS, 12 task orders, $1.6 million), Indefinite Delivery Contract HHSD200201792565I (HHS, 9 task orders, $2.2 million), and Social Security Administration IDCs for vital records work (8–8 task orders ranging from $213 thousand to $822 thousand per vehicle). The agency's work is concentrated in public health program administration (53 awards), data processing and computing infrastructure (46 awards), and testing and laboratory services (10 awards), with the bulk of labor directed toward nutrition program eligibility and enrollment, vital statistics surveillance, emergency preparedness coordination, and maternal-child health service delivery across rural and urban Utah.