Unicef

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Programme and Policy Development Division, operating as a non-profit international organization and subsidiary of the United Nations, serves as the prime recipient for federal grants focused on humanitarian assistance, nutrition, water sanitation and hygiene (WASH), child protection, and emergency response services in over 190 countries. UNICEF is not an SBA-certified small business and does not compete under set-aside contracting vehicles; it competes on a full-and-open basis as a public international organization.

UNICEF's federal grant work centers on concrete humanitarian and health interventions in crisis-affected regions. Recent representative work includes a $20 million project grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas program (CFDA 98.001) to deliver water, sanitation, hygiene, health, nutrition, protection, and camp coordination services across Syria from September 2024 through August 2025; a $23.9 million award from USAID to support nutrition and child protection activities in South Sudan for twelve months ending August 15, 2025; a $2 million Department of State award under the International Disaster and Humanitarian Response program (CFDA 19.045) to deliver multisectoral humanitarian response to earthquake-affected populations in Colombia's Choco and Valle del Cauca departments through February 18, 2027; and a $10 million USAID award for immediate life-saving response to earthquakes in Venezuela through December 31, 2026, funding emergency nutrition, health, WASH, and child protection services.

UNICEF's customer concentration is dominated by USAID and the Department of State. USAID accounts for 553 of 657 total awards (375 awards through the primary USAID agency, 137 through the Bureau for Management Office of the Assistant Administrator, and 41 through the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance), covering 86% of the award count. The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has placed 15 awards with UNICEF, and the Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration has placed multiple disaster-response awards. UNICEF's obligated dollars across all federal sources total $7.5 billion against a combined potential value of $37 thousand, reflecting the dominance of large executed grants with their actual obligated value far exceeding stated potential-value ceilings.

UNICEF operates exclusively as a prime recipient under federal grants; the source shows one sub-award to UNICEF from the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention related to cholera transmission in fishing communities, awarded August 5, 2026. The organization does not hold federal contract vehicles, IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs. Activity has tracked at 46 awards in 2022, 49 in 2023, 37 in 2024, and 8 cumulative in 2025 and 2026 (the latter years showing reduced flow in the source window). Six awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face potential recompete.

UNICEF's grant portfolio spans project grants and cooperative agreements under USAID's Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001), the Food for Peace Emergency Program (CFDA 98.008), the International Disaster and Humanitarian Response program (CFDA 19.045), the Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Western Hemisphere (CFDA 19.518), and the Overseas Refugee Assistance Program for South Asia (CFDA 19.523), among others. Work is performed globally, with administrative oversight from UNICEF's New York headquarters at 3 United Nations Plaza. As an international organization, UNICEF is not subject to 2 CFR 200 domestic compliance requirements, though awards remain subject to independent audit under U.S. Government Auditing Standards.