Federal contractor · DES MOINES, IA

IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH received $908.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (+3.5% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $7.5M. Its largest customer was Social Security Administration ($560.9K). It also received $148.7M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$908.8K
New awards
4
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
S47QLSY37VS1
Parent company
STATE OF IOWA
Other than small businessGovernment entity
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 665.9KFY2017
  2. 834.9KFY2018
  3. 622.4KFY2019
  4. 643.2KFY2020
  5. 647.7KFY2021
  6. 680.8KFY2022
  7. 731.7KFY2023
  8. 873.2KFY2024
  9. 878.4KFY2025
  10. 908.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Social Security Administration$560.9K62%
    2 awards
  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$346.4K38%
    1 awards
  3. Consumer Product Safety Commission$1,5000.2%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$908.8K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Polk County, IA$908.8K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $908.8K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $908.8K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$346.4K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. IOWA (IA)-ELECTRONIC DEATH RECORDS (EDR)$855.7K
    Social Security Administration· Polk County, IA· Professional services· Dec 6, 2023 – Sep 21, 2026· 28321324P00050073
  2. IOWA - ENUMERATION AT BIRTH (EAB) AND RACE AND ETHNICITY (RE) RECORDS$738.4K
    Social Security Administration· Polk County, IA· Professional services· Jun 26, 2024 – Jun 25, 2026· 28321324P00050207
  3. NCHS VSP$346.4K
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Polk County, IA· Professional services· Apr 26, 2026 – Jun 9, 2026· 75D30126F00005
  4. DEATH CERTIFICATES ON CONSUMER PRODUCT RELATED DEATHS.$4,575
    Consumer Product Safety Commission· Polk County, IA· Professional services· Nov 29, 2022 – Dec 15, 2025· 61320623K0001

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH received $148.7M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 444 actions (12 new awards), +859% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 10.557 · WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children ($67.5M).

Assistance · FY2026
$148.7M
New awards
12
Actions
444
Since FY2021
$1.2B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 590.8MFY2021
  2. 74.5MFY2022
  3. 213.7MFY2023
  4. 169.6MFY2024
  5. 15.5MFY2025
  6. 148.7MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$148.7M100%

Top programs

  1. 10.557 · WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children$67.5M45%
  2. 93.959 · Block Grants for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse$14.4M9.7%
  3. 93.788 · Opioid Str$8.3M5.6%
  4. 93.870 · Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Grant$8.2M5.5%
  5. 93.421 · Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services Through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation’s Health$8.1M5.4%
  6. 93.994 · Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant to the States$6.8M4.6%
  7. 93.136 · Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs$4.3M2.9%
  8. 93.917 · HIV Care Formula Grants$3.8M2.6%

Awarding agencies

  1. Food and Nutrition Service$67.7M46%
    Department of Agriculture
  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$31.9M21%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  3. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration$23.4M16%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  4. Health Resources and Services Administration$22.6M15%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  5. Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response$1.8M1.2%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  6. Office of Assistant Secretary for Health$1.5M1.0%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. CK19-1904 EPIDEMIOLOGY AND LABORATORY CAPACITY FOR PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES (ELC)$239.6M
    93.354 · Public Health Emergency Response: Cooperative Agreement for Emergency Response: Public Health Crisis Response· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Cooperative agreement· Oct 16, 2020 – Apr 16, 2026· NU50CK000504
  2. CDC-RFA-IP19-1901 IMMUNIZATION AND VACCINES FOR CHILDREN$77.4M
    93.185 · Immunization Research, Demonstration, Public Information and Education Training and Clinical Skills Improvement Projects· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Cooperative agreement· Dec 16, 2020 – Sep 10, 2026· NH23IP922622
  3. WIC FOOD EXPENSE$43.6M
    10.557 · WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 1, 2024 – Mar 20, 2026· 252IA702W1006
  4. WIC FOOD EXPENSE$43.6M
    10.557 · WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 1, 2025 – Jul 23, 2026· 262IA702W1006
  5. IOWA'S PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE, FOUNDATIONAL CAPABILITIES AND DATA SYSTEMS - THIS GRANT WILL BUILD UPON IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH’S…$43.4M
    93.967 · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration with Academia to Strengthen Public Health· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Grant· Nov 29, 2022 – Aug 24, 2026· NE11OE000110
  6. PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS (PHEP) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT - 2019$34.6M
    93.069 · Public Health Emergency Preparedness· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Cooperative agreement· May 12, 2021 – Aug 28, 2026· NU90TP922051

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $22M (122 subawards)

45 sub-recipients

  1. THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$5.3M24%
    IOWA CITY, IA · 19 subawards
  2. POLK COUNTY AUDITOR$2.7M12%
    DES MOINES, IA · 5 subawards
  3. LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA, INC$1.5M6.7%
    DES MOINES, IA · 2 subawards
  4. H.S. MEDICAL BILLING SERVICES, INC.$1.4M6.4%
    DES MOINES, IA · 1 subaward
  5. COUNTY OF CLINTON$1.4M6.2%
    CLINTON, IA · 2 subawards
  6. BUCHANAN CTY COURT HOUSE$1.3M5.9%
    INDEPENDENCE, IA · 2 subawards
  7. COUNTY OF WOODBURY$1M4.7%
    SIOUX CITY, IA · 5 subawards
  8. COUNTY OF WEBSTER$896.3K4.1%
    FORT DODGE, IA · 7 subawards
  9. UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA$700.2K3.2%
    CEDAR FALLS, IA · 3 subawards
  10. MILLS COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH$631.2K2.9%
    GLENWOOD, IA · 2 subawards

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $100K (2 subawards)

1 prime

  1. JUSTICE, IOWA STATE DEPARTMENT OF$100K100%
    DES MOINES, IA · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $72.4M paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2022: $129.8M paid out · $5.7M received
  • FY2023: $37.5M paid out · $808.8K received
  • FY2024: $45.1M paid out · $547.6K received
  • FY2025: $38.7M paid out · $960.2K received
  • FY2026: $22M paid out · $100K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

169 companies · $343.2M reported

  1. THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$155.2M
    IOWA CITY, IA · 69 subawards
  2. BROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER$15.7M
    DES MOINES, IA · 17 subawards
  3. NUDAK VENTURES LLC$12.1M
    CONRAD, IA · 17 subawards

Primes that pay it

11 companies · $7.1M reported

  1. IA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES$2.9M
    DES MOINES, IA · 3 subawards
  2. COUNCIL OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL EPIDEMIOLOGISTS, INC.$1.1M
    ATLANTA, GA · 6 subawards
  3. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM DIRECTORS INC.$750K
    ALEXANDRIA, VA · 2 subawards · Other professional, scientific, and technical services

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Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 4 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES$2.3M+3.4% in FY2026
    SALT LAKE CITY, UT · 86% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSocial Security Administration · Data processing, hosting, and related servicesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · Data processing, hosting, and related services
  2. MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH$2.7M−22% in FY2026
    JACKSON, MS · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSocial Security Administration · Data processing, hosting, and related servicesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · Data processing, hosting, and related servicesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · Administration of human resource programs
  3. OKLAHOMA STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH$1.9M−142% in FY2026
    OKLAHOMA CITY, OK · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSocial Security Administration · Data processing, hosting, and related servicesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · Data processing, hosting, and related servicesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · Administration of human resource programs

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.