State Of New Mexico

The State of New Mexico Department of Health, a centralized state public health agency operating as a division of the State of New Mexico, holds federal prime contracts and grants as a state government entity and acts as recipient on cooperative agreements and grant awards from federal agencies serving New Mexico's 33 counties and 22 tribal nations. The department does not compete under set-asides, reflecting its status as a U.S. state government entity.

The department's federal footprint spans healthcare delivery, public health surveillance, laboratory testing, and vital statistics services. On the contract side, NMDOH provides community nursing home services, express reporting, and patient case management to the Department of Veterans Affairs under a single-award indefinite-delivery contract valued at $2.25 million through April 2031 (contract 36C25821D0038), from which 34 task orders have issued. The department also conducts newborn genetic testing and laboratory services for the Indian Health Service at Gallup Indian Medical Center—including a February 2026 purchase order for $124.5 thousand for newborn genetic testing and a blanket purchase agreement for laboratory testing services. Additional contract work includes Social Security Administration enumeration-at-birth and vital records services valued at $974.5 thousand (extended through June 2027) and electronic death records services valued at $924.5 thousand (through December 2028).

On the grant side, NMDOH is a substantial federal grant recipient, holding cooperative agreements and project grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the Office of Population Affairs. The CDC represents the largest grantor by award count (97 awards), followed by the Veterans Health Administration (53 awards, $12.4 million combined potential value). The department receives recurring formula grants for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and administers cooperative agreements for immunization programs, emerging infections surveillance (epidemiology and laboratory capacity), behavioral health surveillance, antimicrobial resistance monitoring through retail meat surveillance, tuberculosis elimination, HIV prevention, and violence prevention. Major cooperative agreements include the Emerging Infections Program with CDC, the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) grant for infectious disease surveillance, and the Erase Maternal Mortality program (cooperative agreement through September 2029).

Customer concentration skews heavily toward health-related federal agencies. The Veterans Health Administration commands 53 awards and $12.4 million in combined potential value across the nursing home services contracts. The Social Security Administration accounts for 20 awards and $4.2 million, primarily for vital records and enumeration services. The Indian Health Service holds 36 awards and $1.8 million for laboratory and newborn screening work. CDC leads by award count at 97 awards but dollar values across most CDC awards are embedded in cooperative agreements carrying multi-year commitments.

Work is performed entirely in New Mexico, with primary operational locations in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Activity has remained stable at 24–34 awards per year over the past five years; recent awards cluster in 2024 (34 awards) and 2025 (31 awards). Within the next twenty-four months, 43 awards totaling $169 thousand reach ultimate completion and face recompete. The department's category concentration aligns with its operational focus: nursing care facilities and skilled nursing facility work dominates (52 awards), followed by reference laboratory testing (29 awards), data processing and administrative support (23 awards), and public health administration (13 awards).

The department acts as a subrecipient on federal grants managed by the New Mexico Department of Transportation (injury surveillance data integration), the New Mexico Department of Public Safety (forensic toxicology support and extreme risk protection order awareness), the Arizona Department of Health Services (CDC biomonitoring deliverables), and the New Mexico Health Care Authority (refugee health screening and health literacy services). These sub-awards total 10 awards across the portfolio and represent extensions of the department's clinical and epidemiological reach into specialized populations and complementary state agencies.