Ohio Department Of Public Safety, State Highway Patrol

The Ohio Department Of Public Safety, State Highway Patrol, a U.S. state government entity headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, provides law enforcement database access and highway traffic safety services to federal agencies as a prime grant recipient (100% of recent awards) and as a vendor of the Law Enforcement Automated Data System (LEADS) on small purchase orders. The recipient does not hold federal contract vehicles or SBA certifications and competes under full-and-open procurement with no set-aside designation.

The State Highway Patrol's federal footprint divides sharply between two distinct capability streams. The primary stream—accounting for the vast majority of recent obligated dollars—consists of formula grants from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) under CFDAs 20.600 (State and Community Highway Safety, Section 402) and 20.616 (National Priority Safety Programs, Sections 405(b) through 405(h)), supporting behavioral highway safety programs including occupant protection, impaired driving countermeasures, distracted driving enforcement, pedestrian and bicycle safety, motorcyclist safety, and traffic records system improvements. The recipient also holds formula grants from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) under CFDA 20.232 (Commercial Driver's License Program Implementation) to conduct overt monitoring of CDL skills testing facilities and to support legal compliance activities for CDL conviction adjudication. Representative grant work includes a $700 thousand cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs (CFDA 16.554, National Criminal History Improvement Program, awarded July 1, 2026) to upgrade Ohio's criminal justice data systems by implementing NIEM XML data format and maintaining access to FBI systems including the National Crime Information Center N3G platform, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and the Interstate Identification Index.

The secondary stream consists of small purchase orders—typically $2,650 to $72,000 per order—for direct LEADS access services supplied to multiple federal agencies. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 is the dominant customer in this contract stream (42 awards, $628 thousand combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service (48 awards, $349 thousand), the Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (35 awards, $198 thousand), and the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (14 awards, $162 thousand). Representative LEADS contract work includes a $138,480 purchase order from VA VISN 10 awarded October 1, 2024 (completion September 30, 2029) for criminal background check and investigation database access, a $36 thousand order from DoD Land and Maritime awarded April 1, 2023 (completion March 31, 2028) for LEADS software and access, and a $16,200 order from the Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded January 1, 2022 (completion December 31, 2026) for Law Enforcement Automated Data System services supporting the Criminal Investigations Branch. The source notes that similar LEADS contracts have been awarded by the U.S. Marshals Service, the Internal Revenue Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

Recent activity shows concentration in NHTSA formula grants (41 awards in the top-customer ranking) and reflects a multi-year commitment across the highway safety portfolio. The source reports 302 total awards across prime and sub roles since 2003, with award volume showing 9 awards in 2022, 22 in 2023, 10 in 2024, 9 in 2025, and 1 in 2026 (as of the source snapshot date). The recompete cliff spans 21 awards with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $155 thousand), representing a modest near-term renewal exposure concentrated in the LEADS purchase order stream. The NHTSA Section 402 and Section 405 grants running through September 30, 2027 and September 30, 2029 constitute the largest dollar commitments and anchor the recipient's federal footprint through the multi-year grant cycles. One sub-award to the State Highway Patrol, tagged "OSHP High Visibility Enforcement Periods 2024," was recorded as a sub-grant from the Ohio Department Of Public Safety dated October 1, 2023.