New Jersey Department Of Health

The New Jersey Department Of Health State Of New Jersey Health Division, a division of the State of New Jersey, is a state government entity that operates as the prime recipient on federal grants and the prime contractor on federal service contracts, delivering public health regulation, vital statistics administration, nutrition assistance program administration, disease surveillance, and early intervention services to federal agencies without set-aside designations. The division operates across all 21 New Jersey counties from its administrative headquarters in Trenton and has accumulated a portfolio of 977 prime awards and 5 subawards worth a combined potential value of $244.9 million across 982 total awards spanning federal contracts and grants.

The division's federal footprint reflects a state health department's core mission. Its contract work centers on food safety inspection services under delegation from the Food and Drug Administration—a $2,035,296 definitive contract for human food inspections awarded September 6, 2026 running through September 5, 2031, and a $2,000,690 delivery order for tobacco retail inspections issued May 30, 2026 under an FDA indefinite delivery contract. Vital records work with the CDC represents sustained programmatic activity: a $5,078,780 single-award indefinite delivery contract from CDC Pittsburgh for National Center for Health Statistics Vital Statistics Cooperative Program data collection runs through April 30, 2027, with multiple delivery orders issued for birth and death data collection in Trenton and Durham, North Carolina. The division also holds contracts for laboratory sample analysis ($60,070 purchase order from HHS Office of Acquisitions and Grants, April 2026), enumeration at birth and race/ethnicity records for Social Security Administration ($3,487,837 purchase order option period 2 exercised June 2024 through June 2029), and BioWatch laboratory support for the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office (recurring $90,000 to $100,000 annual purchase orders for technical and management support).

Federal grant work dominates the division's portfolio by volume and dollar scale. The division receives formula grants under the WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (CFDA 10.557)—a multi-component award package totaling over $240 million annually for food benefits, administrative expenses, and breastfeeding peer counselor services, with performance through September 30, 2026. The division sub-awards WIC funds to 16 local implementing entities including county health departments, municipalities, and nonprofit organizations across New Jersey's 21 counties. Other major nutrition grants include the Commodity Supplemental Food Program ($515,041 through September 2026) and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program ($836,289 through September 2026), both USDA Food and Nutrition Service awards. Early intervention services are funded through a formula grant under the Special Education-Grants for Infants and Families program (CFDA 84.181)—$14.256 million awarded July 1, 2026 for Part C services through September 30, 2027, supporting statewide early intervention for infants and toddlers with disabilities aged birth through two years. Maternal and child health work spans multiple vehicles: a $31.399 million Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant (CFDA 93.994) awarded October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2027, and a $15.050 million Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Grant (CFDA 93.870) awarded September 30, 2025 through September 29, 2027 to expand evidence-based home visiting services across all 21 counties with local implementing agencies. Disease surveillance and prevention grants include cooperative agreements for HIV/AIDS surveillance ($2.694 million Medical Monitoring Project through September 2030), tuberculosis elimination and laboratory services (cooperative agreement through December 2029), vaccine-preventable disease prevention and response (cooperative agreement through June 2030), and overdose data to action programming ($4.3 million equivalent through May 2029). The division also holds cooperative agreements for public health emergency preparedness (PHEP, through June 2029) and hospital preparedness (HPP, through June 2029), behavioral risk factor surveillance (through July 2029), environmental health tracking modernization (through July 2027), and public health infrastructure strengthening (through November 2027).

Customer concentration centers on three federal health and nutrition agencies. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service leads by award count (110 awards), driven by recurring WIC formula grants and related nutrition programs. The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranks second by award count (105 awards) with disease surveillance, prevention, and preparedness cooperative agreements concentrated in vital statistics (CDC Pittsburgh). The CDC Pittsburgh office alone holds 34 awards worth $22.6 million combined potential value, anchored by the single-award vital statistics indefinite delivery contract. The Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration ranks first by combined potential value (27 awards, $41.6 million), driven by food and tobacco inspection delegations. Social Security Administration holds 29 awards worth $16.3 million, primarily purchase orders for vital records administration. The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (56 awards) funds maternal and child health block grants and early intervention services. Together, these five customers account for 40% of awards by count and 33% of combined potential value.

The division sits on two named indefinite delivery contracts: the $5,078,780 CDC Pittsburgh single-award IDC for vital statistics and the FDA indefinite delivery contract for tobacco inspections (ultimate value $5 million). Additional parent vehicles include a Social Security Administration single-award purchase order for enumeration services running through June 2029 and multiple USDA Food and Nutrition Service formula grant vehicles for WIC components. The division's awards span NAICS 92104 (Administration of Public Health Programs, 81 awards), reflecting its delegated regulatory role, and secondary categories in data processing and testing services (NAICS 518210 and 8102 combined, 47 awards). PSC coding emphasizes information retrieval support (51 awards), data collection management (45 awards), and quality control services (31 awards combined).

Activity has remained relatively flat in recent years—30 to 41 awards annually across 2022–2025, with 10 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date through early September. Fifty-one awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing $2.7 million in potential recompete exposure. Obligated dollars ($10.43 billion) far exceed the combined potential value of active awards, reflecting the division's multi-year formula grant structure and the accounting convention by which large annual appropriations (such as the $171.469 million WIC food expense award issued October 1, 2025) carry one-year period-of-performance but obligate forward funds across fiscal cycles. The division makes extensive use of sub-awards to local health departments, nonprofits, and universities; recent WIC administrative grants name sub-recipients including the City of Newark Department of Health & Community Wellness, County of Gloucester, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey School of Nursing, Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey Inc., and St. Joseph's University Medical Center. The division also received grant sub-awards as a sub-grantee from Thomas Edison State University (ACP enrollment outreach, January 2024) and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (learning community pilot participation, August 2023), demonstrating limited downstream sub-recipient footprint as a grantor and subordinate role as a sub-grantee in external grant mechanisms.