Department Of Public Health Illinois

Department Of Public Health Illinois, a state government entity headquartered in Springfield, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants and a prime contractor on federal service contracts, delivering public health administration, vital statistics management, disease surveillance, and environmental health services to federal agencies across HHS, CDC, EPA, SSA, and FDA. The department competes full-and-open across all federal grant programs and contracts and holds no set-aside designations; it is a division of the State of Illinois.

The department's federal portfolio centers on vital statistics data collection and management, disease prevention and control, maternal and child health services, environmental health protection, and occupational safety and health statistics. Representative work includes a $7.85 million single-award indefinite delivery contract from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics Vital Statistics Cooperative Program (NCHS VSCP) running through April 2027, supporting vital records data collection and analysis across multiple delivery orders valued at $785,124 each; a $5.24 million purchase order from the Social Security Administration for Enumeration at Birth and race and ethnicity records services through June 2029; a $2.7 million definitive contract from the Food and Drug Administration for human food inspections across Illinois through March 2027; and a $4.64 million purchase order from SSA for Electronic Death Records services supporting 54 states and jurisdictions through December 2028. Recent grant awards include a $42 million Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant from HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau (October 2025 through September 2027), a $3.72 million five-year cooperative agreement from the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS for the Medical Monitoring Project (awarded September 2025), a $2.03 million EPA Region 5 project grant for voluntary lead testing and remediation at schools and child care facilities (January 2026 through December 2029), and a $1.35 million HRSA HIV Care Formula Grant for AIDS Drug Assistance Program emergency relief funding (April 2026 through March 2027).

Customer concentration is dispersed across federal health and environmental agencies. The CDC Pittsburgh office accounts for 35 awards with $29.8 million combined potential value; the Social Security Administration holds 32 awards worth $23 million; the CDC Office of Acquisition Services accounts for 14 awards valued at $21.3 million; the FDA holds 13 awards worth $8.5 million; and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Administration for Children and Families, and EPA round out the top customers. Top five customers represent 37 percent of recent award count. By potential value, CDC Pittsburgh, SSA, CDC OAS, FDA, and the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons together account for 14 percent of combined potential value, indicating a highly diversified grant and contract footprint across federal mission areas.

The department operates primarily as a prime recipient and contractor (93 percent of awards) rather than as a subcontractor (7 percent). SCI-reported federal service contract invoicing totaled $3.7 million across fiscal years 2022–2024 (FY2022: $1.2 million, FY2023: $1.2 million, FY2024: $1.4 million), with a workforce of roughly 5.7 to 6.5 FTEs delivered on reportable federal service contracts. Government-paid hourly rates on federal service contracts cluster tightly around a median of $99.64/hr, with rates ranging from $99.59/hr at the tenth percentile to $102.34/hr at the ninetieth percentile, indicating standardized compensation posture. The department delivers work entirely through its own staff on SCI-reportable contracts, with zero average sub-hours share, and operates 7 regional offices and 3 laboratories across Illinois's 102 counties in partnership with 97 certified local health departments.

Forty-one awards (combined potential value $21.2 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure primarily in vital statistics, disease surveillance, and environmental health programs. The department holds a multi-year trajectory of federal grant funding for public health infrastructure, disease prevention, and emergency preparedness, with cooperative agreements from the CDC anchoring maternal and child health services, HIV prevention and surveillance, tuberculosis control and elimination, vaccine-preventable disease prevention, and emergency response readiness through 2029–2030. The portfolio demonstrates deep specialization in state-level public health administration, vital records management, and federal-state data sharing partnerships that support national surveillance and health equity initiatives.