International Organization For Migration

International Organization For Migration, an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient—not a federal contractor—delivering humanitarian assistance, refugee resettlement support, border security capacity building, and counter-trafficking services to State Department, USAID, and Department of Homeland Security customer agencies worldwide. IOM is not subject to small business set-aside designations and competes on full-and-open basis for all federal work.

IOM's federal footprint is overwhelmingly grant-based, with 809 prime grant awards across 49 customer agencies since 1997. The organization operates exclusively as a direct recipient with no federal subcontractor relationships; one sub-award record shows IOM performing as a sub-grantee under JSI Research & Training Institute on an USAID/Indonesia health systems project. SCI-reported invoicing totaled $28.9 million across FY2022–FY2025 ($5.6 million in FY2022, $10 million in FY2023, $6.5 million in FY2024, and $6.8 million in FY2025), though SCI captures only service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, products, and classified work; the $5.21 billion in combined obligated dollars across all awards dwarfs the $44.2 million combined potential value, reflecting that many IOM awards carry no preset ceiling or represent drawdown authority on existing cooperative agreements.

Customer concentration clusters heavily within humanitarian and migration portfolios. USAID leads by award count (278 awards, though combined potential value shows only $21 thousand), followed by USAID Bureau for Management Office of the Assistant Administrator (143 awards), Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (77 awards), and Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement (70 awards). Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services anchors the dollar concentration (36 awards, $7.7 million combined potential value) through recent FY2026 and FY2024 awards for home country support services assisting Miss L Settlement beneficiaries in family reunification, temporary lodging and transportation at refugee camps in Africa, and biometrics collection for refugee applicants. These USCIS awards, ranging from $24,100 to $2.84 million, reflect IOM's role as the operational executor for U.S. refugee admissions processing overseas.

IOM's recent capability portfolio spans five primary service streams. First, emergency humanitarian response: USAID awarded $157.2 million for Ukraine war-affected populations (shelter, WASH, protection, psychosocial support); $41.2 million for DRC humanitarian services (healthcare coordination, shelter, WASH, protection); $34 million for Gaza shelter and technical support; and $32 million for Somalia multisectoral emergency response—all executed as direct recipient, not sub-awardee. Second, refugee and migrant services: USCIS contracts for home country support (assisting beneficiaries in family reunification), temporary lodging at refugee camps in Chad, Tanzania, and Kenya, and overseas health assessment and management of U.S.-bound migrants under cooperative agreements with the Department of State Center for Global Health. Third, counter-trafficking and victim protection: Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement awarded multiple project grants and cooperative agreements totaling $2.5 million each (October 2025) across Malaysia, Uruguay, Laos, Solomon Islands, and Cambodia for victim-centered trafficking prevention, shelter services, and survivor livelihood support; combined with older awards in Nigeria, Ghana, and Morocco ($2.5 million each for extended periods through 2028), these reflect IOM's positioning as the primary federal implementer for victim protection infrastructure. Fourth, border security and counterterrorism capacity building: Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism awarded $3.95 million (September 2025) for installation of IOM's proprietary Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) at key Ethiopian border entry points; prior awards in Somalia ($4.94 million, September 2022) and multiple cooperative agreements support similar border management upgrades across East Africa and South Asia. Fifth, global health security and disease surveillance: HHS/CDC Center for Global Health awarded cooperative agreements for pandemic preparedness and overseas health assessment programs linked to migrant populations and cross-border disease transmission zones.

Recent activity shows contraction: eight awards in 2026 (as of October 1), fourteen in 2025, thirty-five in 2024, compared to forty in 2022 and forty-nine in 2023. The recompete cliff exposes $2.8 million in combined potential value across sixteen awards completing within the next twenty-four months, including several multi-year humanitarian response initiatives in Syria/Yemen, Haiti, and South Sudan that require renewal or closeout.

IOM's NAICS footprint reflects its operational character: hotels and motels account for thirty-one awards (refugee camp lodging and temporary housing at processing centers), office administrative services four awards, and lessors of nonresidential buildings two awards. PSC coding aligns: transportation/travel/relocation lodging (hotel/motel) accounts for twenty-seven awards; other transportation/travel categories add nine more. This categorization derives from USCIS and State Department awards for facility operations and logistics rather than from professional services or systems integration, positioning IOM as a unique federal partner—one that deploys staff, operates physical facilities, and delivers direct humanitarian assistance overseas rather than providing advisory, engineering, or IT services common to most federal contractors.