Public Health Solutions

Public Health Solutions, doing business as Mhra, is a New York City-based nonprofit organization that provides public health emergency preparedness, disease surveillance data services, and family planning program administration to federal agencies as a prime contractor (86% of recent awards) and as a grant sub-recipient. The organization operates across 25 distinct federal customer agencies with no small business set-aside designations, holding a registered SAM.gov presence since 2003.

Mhra's customer concentration sits heavily with health and human services agencies. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pittsburgh accounts for 37 awards worth $23 million in combined potential value, anchored by a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $4.97 million for Health Care and Human Services Virtual Support Center services running through April 2027. The Social Security Administration represents the second-largest customer with 30 awards worth $15.4 million, predominantly for enumeration-at-birth records management and electronic death records services in New York State and New York City. Together, CDC Pittsburgh and SSA account for approximately 37% of all recent awards. The CDC Office of Acquisition Services, the broader CDC, and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service round out the top five, with the top five agencies accounting for 58% of award volume. Recent contract examples include a $594,216 firm fixed-price delivery order from CDC Pittsburgh for the National Center for Health Statistics Vital Statistics Cooperative Program (awarded January 2026, completing May 2027), a $4.08 million ceiling-value purchase order from SSA for New York City enumeration-at-birth and race-and-ethnicity records (awarded June 2024, completing June 2029), and a $46,678 purchase order from CDC Pittsburgh for 2026 National Death Index services (awarded June 2026, completing May 2027).

Activity volume has fluctuated moderately — nine awards in 2022, declining to eight in 2023, rebounding to 15 in 2024, then declining to ten in 2025 and three in 2026 to date. Only five awards (combined potential value $641,000) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete pressure. Mhra's capability portfolio centers on vital statistics data management, disease surveillance systems, enumeration and vital records processing, and public health emergency preparedness program administration. The organization also holds four federal grants as prime recipient from the CDC, the Office of Population Affairs, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response: a five-year Title X family planning program cooperative agreement (awarded April 2022, completing March 2027), a Title X dire-need grant (awarded January 2022, completing March 2023), a five-year Public Health Emergency Preparedness cooperative agreement with CDC (awarded July 2024, completing June 2029), and a five-year Hospital Preparedness Program cooperative agreement with ASPR (awarded July 2024, completing June 2029). The Title X program encompasses restoration of family planning services across seven sub-recipients operating 15 service sites serving approximately 32,000 low-income individuals annually across New York City.

Mhra operates as a self-performing prime: across SCI-reportable service contracts (FY2022–FY2024), the organization invoiced $4.2 million in federal labor, with no subcontractor engagement recorded — all 10.7 to 16.3 FTEs per fiscal year were direct Mhra employees. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts ranged from $30.42/hr at the 10th percentile to $170.45/hr at the 90th percentile, with a median of $69/hr, reflecting a mixed labor portfolio spanning administrative and professional support roles. Mhra holds five top-tier parent vehicles: Basic Ordering Agreement HHSD200201250853I (11 task orders, $4.1 million combined value), Indefinite Delivery Contracts SS000660087 (8 task orders, $894,000), SS000860049 (8 task orders, $1.9 million), HHSD200201792538I (7 task orders, $3.3 million), and SS001260033 (7 task orders, $1 million). Work spanning these vehicles and direct awards clusters in two NAICS categories: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (44 awards) and Administration of Public Health Programs (34 awards), aligned with Mhra's data systems and public health infrastructure mission. As a sub-recipient, Mhra receives federal grants from New York University, the New York State Department of Health, the City of New York, and the Fund for Public Health in New York, focused on opioid use disorder surveillance, WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program administration, HIV care continuum support, viral hepatitis surveillance, and COVID-19 community health worker coordination.