Massachusetts Department Of Public Health

Massachusetts Department Of Public Health, a U.S. state government entity and division of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants and a prime contractor on federal service agreements, delivering public health surveillance, vital statistics management, regulatory compliance inspections, and disease prevention programs across 72 federal agencies. MDPH competes full-and-open without set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

MDPH's capability portfolio centers on administration of public health programs, data collection and surveillance, laboratory testing, vital records management, and health promotion services. Recent representative work includes a $9.05 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Food and Drug Administration for ongoing tobacco inspection and compliance services in Massachusetts through September 2029, funded through delivery orders of $864.7 thousand and $744.5 thousand; a $4.64 million CDC Indefinite Delivery Contract for National Center for Health Statistics Vital Statistics Cooperative Program services (birth, death, and vital records data collection and analysis) through April 2027, with recurring delivery orders valued at $527.4 thousand; a $2.44 million Social Security Administration contract for enumeration at birth and race/ethnicity records services through June 2029; and a $2.69 million FDA Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) inspection contract through January 2028. On the grant side, MDPH is recipient of a $72.4 million formula grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service under the WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (CFDA 10.557) for fiscal year 2025–2026, a $17.3 million Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (CFDA 93.994) for fiscal years 2025–2027, and a $10.4 million Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Grant (CFDA 93.870) from HRSA through September 2027, supporting evidence-based home visiting services across 18 Massachusetts communities.

Customer concentration is distributed across health and human services agencies. The top five funding sources by award count account for 36 percent of awards and include the CDC Pittsburgh (124 awards), Health Resources and Services Administration (65 awards), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (58 awards), and two Food and Nutrition Service allocations (56 and 50 awards). By potential-value concentration, CDC Pittsburgh leads with 48 awards valued at $43.3 million, followed by the Food and Drug Administration (26 awards, $33.7 million) and the Social Security Administration (21 awards, $11.2 million). MDPH maintains parent vehicles including Basic Ordering Agreement HHSD200201250822I (11 task orders, $3 million combined value), an IDC with the Social Security Administration (9 task orders, $1.2 million), and IDC HHSD200200100082I (8 task orders, $6.7 million).

Activity has remained steady at 33–44 awards per year over the past five years, with 72 awards (combined potential value $4.7 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoicing totaled $2.2 million across prime service contracts from FY2022–FY2024, with 6.6 FTEs in FY2022 and 8.2 FTEs in FY2023; no SCI-reported invoicing appears in FY2024 data, reflecting reporting lags or contract structure shifts. Government-paid rates on federal service contracts ran median $67.84 per hour, with the spectrum ranging from $57.96 per hour (10th percentile) to $102.17 per hour (90th percentile). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, MDPH performed 100 percent of contractor hours in-house with no named subcontractor engagement.

MDPH operates as a state-level primary health authority, receiving sub-award flows from federal research and demonstration grants routed through academic and nonprofit prime recipients including Stanford University, Tufts University, Boston University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the University of Texas at Austin on projects spanning birth defects research, disease surveillance methods, and maternal health outcomes. The department distributes portions of its own federal grants to local health departments, community health centers, nonprofit service providers, and local implementing agencies to deliver maternal and child health services, nutrition programs, home visiting, and substance abuse treatment across the Commonwealth. The 956 prime awards and 18 sub awards reflect MDPH's dominant role as the state's contracting and grant administration entity rather than a feeder to larger federal primes.