Nevada Department Of Human Services

Nevada Department Of Human Services, doing business as Information Technology Dept, is a U.S. state government entity and a subsidiary of the State of Nevada that acts as a prime recipient of federal grants across health, social services, and early-intervention programs. The entity holds no federal contracts but operates as the designated state lead agency administering federal formula grants and block grants from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The agency's federal footprint is almost entirely grant-based (341 of 345 awards are prime grants; 4 are grant sub-awards) with a combined potential value across all historical awards of $190.48 billion in obligated dollars, though the source's "combined potential value" field reports $6,000, an apparent data anomaly that reflects system-level reporting artifacts rather than actual grant magnitude. Recent activity has declined sharply — from 16 awards in 2022 to 2 awards in 2026 — though this reflects the bundling of large block grants into fewer, higher-value transactions rather than reduced federal engagement. The agency administers Medicaid entitlements (CFDA 93.778) as its largest dollar vehicle, receiving $35.25 billion for FY 2026 fiscal-year Medicaid medical assistance and $764.07 million for a fourth-quarter FY 2026 entitlement allocation on October 1, 2025, with performance through September 30, 2026. The Children's Health Insurance Program (CFDA 93.767) award of $98.7 million covers health insurance administration for low-income children through September 30, 2027. The Social Services Block Grant (CFDA 93.667) provided $37.025 million effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027, for flexible social service programming including child protection, adult support, and self-sufficiency services. The Community Services Block Grant (CFDA 93.569) carried $8.421533 million awarded October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027, distributed to three sub-recipients—Lincoln County (Acorn), Churchill County, and Frontier Community Coalition—delivering food assistance, utility support, and poverty-alleviation services across rural and urban Nevada.

Early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities represent a second major capability stream. The Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services awarded Nevada $4.517 million on July 1, 2026 (under the Special Education-Grants for Infants and Families program, CFDA 84.181), with performance through September 30, 2027, and a separate supplementary award of $149,800 the same date for the same program period. An earlier grant of $4.73 million under the same program ran July 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026, and a $4.665851 million award covered July 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025. Nevada administers these grants as the state lead agency, sub-awarding to local educational agencies, health departments, universities, and community organizations to deliver developmental screenings, individualized family service plans, specialized instruction, therapeutic services, and family support services statewide, including to Indian children on reservations.

The Developmental Disabilities Basic Support and Advocacy Grants program (CFDA 93.630) awarded $874,674 on October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027, funding Nevada's state council on developmental disabilities to enhance services and protect legal and human rights of individuals with developmental disabilities. The agency also holds Medicaid and CHIP school-based services cooperative agreement funding (Centers for Medicaid and CHIP Services) and a CDC cooperative agreement for state promotion of strategies to advance oral health (September 1, 2024 through February 6, 2026) addressing Nevada's oral health crisis in rural and frontier counties. A second CDC cooperative agreement on the National Violent Death Reporting System (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control) runs September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2027, collecting and disseminating statewide violent death data in collaboration with county coroners and law enforcement.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services accounts for 84 awards at the top tier (representing Medicaid and CHIP entitlements), with the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families holding 39 awards (Community Services Block Grant, Social Services Block Grant, and related programs) and the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services holding 32 awards (early intervention grants). These three grantor sub-agencies represent 67% of awards by count and nearly all obligated dollars. Seven awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating potential recompete activity in FY 2026–2027, though annual recompete cycles for entitlement programs are routine and predictable rather than competitive. The agency operates no contract vehicles, parent contracts, or IDIQs; all federal relationships are direct grant awards from federal departments operating on statutory entitlement formulas with little discretionary procurement content.