Washington State Department Of Health

Washington State Department of Health, a state government entity and a child of the Washington Department of Public Instruction, operates as a prime recipient on federal contracts and grants (97% of recent awards) delivering public health surveillance, vaccination and immunization services, vital records management, environmental monitoring, water infrastructure financing, nutrition assistance administration, and disease prevention and emergency response services to 83 distinct federal agencies. The agency does not compete under small-business set-asides and operates full-and-open across all federal funding sources.

The department's customer concentration centers on civilian health and nutrition agencies. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Pittsburgh) leads funding with 40 awards worth $18.9 million in combined potential value, followed by the Social Security Administration (32 awards, $13 million), the CDC Office of Acquisition Services (13 awards, $9.2 million), and the Naval Sea Systems Command (14 awards, $2.1 million). The top five funding agencies account for 36% of award volume and 68% of combined potential value, with clear dominance by CDC and Social Security Administration across contract and grant portfolios. A $4.26 million CDC indefinite delivery contract for the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project (VSCP Washington) and a $571,170 Naval Sea Systems Command single-award indefinite delivery contract for environmental monitoring represent the department's largest parent vehicles by ceiling value.

Recent work examples across the contract footprint include a $451,152 CDC delivery order (April 2026) for vaccine safety surveillance under the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project; a $2.97 million Social Security Administration purchase order (June 2024) for enumeration at birth and race/ethnicity records services through June 2029; a $1.19 million Naval Sea Systems Command delivery order (January 2026) for environmental monitoring supporting nuclear program activities in Tumwater, Washington; and a $90,000 Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction purchase order (September 2025) for BioWatch State and Local Laboratory Support. Federal grant activity is substantial, with awards under USDA WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, CFDA 10.557) totaling more than $50 million annually for food expenses, administrative costs, and breastfeeding peer counselor services distributed across 25 sub-awardees; HUD Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA, CFDA 14.241) providing $1.63 million for housing and supportive services; EPA drinking water state revolving fund capitalization grants exceeding $18 million for low-interest public water system financing; and CDC cooperative agreements for public health emergency preparedness, HIV prevention and surveillance, immunization programs, and chronic disease prevention. The department also receives cooperative agreements from the Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry for environmental health surveillance and radon risk reduction.

Activity has remained relatively flat at 37 to 49 awards annually over the past five years, with 66 awards (combined potential value $2.8 million) facing recompete within the next twenty-four months. The department's subcontractor footprint is minimal—31 sub-awards (3% of total) occur largely on behalf of state and local health jurisdictions and federally qualified health centers receiving WIC, maternal and child health, and emergency preparedness sub-grants, and on technical assistance contracts with prime recipients including the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Primary capability focus centers on disease surveillance and epidemiology, laboratory testing and environmental monitoring, vital statistics administration, nutrition program operations and benefit administration, public water system financing and technical assistance, and public health emergency response coordination. Place of performance spans Washington State headquarters in Tumwater and Olympia, with delivery orders and grants serving purposes including vaccine safety monitoring, environmental testing and nuclear program compliance, vital records management, drinking water infrastructure, emergency medical services, and pandemic preparedness activities performed across Washington and in select national locations such as Durham, North Carolina (National Death Index data operations) and San Antonio, Texas (BioWatch laboratory support).