Ohio Department Of Health

The Ohio Department of Health (ODH), a U.S. state government entity headquartered in Columbus, acts as a federal grant recipient and contract prime across 62 federal agencies, delivering public health surveillance, emergency preparedness, nutrition assistance, disease prevention, and maternal-child health services. ODH operates exclusively as a prime recipient—803 of 806 recent awards are prime grants or contracts—and does not hold federal procurement vehicles such as GWACs or IDIQs; instead, it receives delivery orders and grant funds under agency-specific indefinite delivery contracts and formula grant programs. The vendor holds a single-award CDC indefinite delivery contract for Voluntary Self-Contained Public Health Emergency Response services valued at $5.274 million through April 2027, against which two delivery orders totaling $1.309 million have been placed.

ODH's federal grant portfolio dominates its footprint and centers on nutrition assistance, disease surveillance, emergency preparedness, and maternal-child health. The Department of Health and Human Services (CDC and CMS combined) and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service lead recent award volume and dollar value. Representative work includes a $606.1 million five-year Cooperative Agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CFDA 93.798) for the Rural Health Transformation Program, awarded December 29, 2025, to strengthen healthcare access, workforce capacity, and innovation across Ohio's 73 non-urban counties through rural health innovation hubs, emergency care transformation, and school-based health centers; a $109.7 million formula grant from USDA Food and Nutrition Service (CFDA 10.557) for WIC food expenses, awarded October 1, 2025, supporting supplemental nutrition to approximately 180,000 Ohioans monthly through 25 sub-awardees; and a $34.96 million project grant from HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau (CFDA 93.994) for maternal and child health services, awarded October 1, 2025, distributed to 35+ local health departments and community organizations across Ohio's 88 counties. ODH also holds a $5.8 million Social Security Administration purchase order for Electronic Death Registration services (awarded December 27, 2023, with ultimate completion in December 2028) and a $1.926 million FDA contract for MQSA mammography facility inspections (awarded July 10, 2022, sole-source to ODH as the state regulatory authority, running through July 2027).

Recent grant awards demonstrate ODH's role as steward of large federal nutrition, prevention, and workforce programs. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 40% of recent awards: CDC Pittsburgh (95 awards), USDA Food and Nutrition Service (61 awards), CMS (60 awards), USDA Food and Nutrition Service again (58 awards), and HRSA (50 awards). By combined potential value, CDC Pittsburgh and Social Security Administration anchor the portfolio, each with roughly $24.7–24.8 million in potential value across recent awards. The portfolio spans 62 distinct federal agencies, reflecting ODH's status as Ohio's designated state public health authority serving 11.7 million residents across 88 counties through partnerships with 111 local health departments.

ODH's capability portfolio encompasses epidemiology and surveillance (including the Ohio Violent Death Reporting System, National Death Index operations, and immunization data systems), emergency preparedness and public health emergency response, infectious disease investigation and laboratory support, maternal and child health promotion (home visiting, loan repayment for underserved-area providers, newborn screening), nutrition assistance program administration (WIC, food distribution, farmers' market vouchers), chronic disease prevention (asthma, cardiovascular health, diabetes, suicide prevention, sexual violence prevention), environmental health (radon testing, lead hazard reduction, beach water quality monitoring), occupational health and safety certification and training, and health workforce development. ODH distributes formula grants and cooperative agreement funds to sub-recipients (local health departments, nonprofit community organizations, healthcare providers) operating statewide; it is not itself a service delivery provider but a state agency managing federal funding flows and providing technical assistance and surveillance infrastructure to local partners.

SCI-reported federal service contract invoicing totaled $1.5 million in FY2024 across 8 records, with zero FTEs reported in the SCI dataset. This figure represents only contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold and excludes the vast majority of ODH's federal grant activity; it is a very narrow slice of ODH's federal funding and does not reflect total enterprise revenue. The bulk of ODH's federal footprint consists of formula grants, project grants, and cooperative agreements—which fall outside the SCI reporting scope—distributed through state-managed programs serving vulnerable populations across Ohio.

Fifty-two awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $3.4 million and representing recompete opportunity. ODH's recent award activity has moderated from 33 awards in 2023 and 31 in 2024 to 25 in 2025 and only 3 as of mid-2026 in the source snapshot; the source captures awards through early July 2026, and the recent award count should not be read as a full-year trend. ODH operates across both service and goods NAICS categories, with Administration of Public Health Programs (64 awards) and Computing Infrastructure Providers and Data Processing (44 awards) among the top categories, reflecting its hybrid role as operational state health agency and data/IT systems steward for the state's distributed local health department network.