USAspending.gov · federal agency · CY2024 · code 075
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Federal contract spending profile, contract obligations, budget authority and top contractors, from USAspending.gov.
- Corpus rank
- #4 of 65
- Contract obligations (CY2024)
- $29.0B
- Budget authority
- $3379.9B
- Agency
- HHS
Year-over-year change, 2019–2024
Across the calendar years on file, Department of Health and Human Services’s annual contract obligations fell from $33.0B in 2023 to $29.0B in 2024. 12.2% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2020 at $36.6B.
Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures share the calendar-year basis of the CY2024 headline above; budget authority is a separate measure.
How Department of Health and Human Services leads the CY2024 obligation board
$29.0B · #4 of 65 by CY2024 contract obligations (top 5% nationally) - a top-third USAspending agency by calendar-2024 contract obligations (same board as the agencies listing). See methodology.
From calendar 2019 to 2024, Department of Health and Human Services held #4 of 66 agencies in the annual contract-obligation series. Its share of that year’s tracked agency total moved from 3.92% to 3.85%. Across the available annual series, its obligations ranged from $22.2B in 2019 to $36.6B in 2020, a 1.6x spread.
Advanced Technology International is the largest listed prime contractor at $2.6B, or 8.8% of this agency’s calendar-2024 obligation total. The table below shows the remaining named prime recipients in the extract. Contract obligations ($29.0B) are a thin slice of the $3379.9B budget-authority ceiling - most of the legal authority is outside this contract window. Methodology documents the distinct populations and the Treasury source fields.
Top Contractors
| # | Contractor | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Advanced Technology International | $2.6B |
| 2 | Leidos Biomedical Research Inc | $868.8M |
| 3 | General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. | $840.2M |
| 4 | Maximus Federal Services, Inc. | $756.1M |
| 5 | Deloitte Consulting LLP | $570.9M |
| 6 | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $496.0M |
| 7 | Research Triangle Institute | $362.7M |
| 8 | Seqirus Inc | $337.1M |
| 9 | Carahsoft Technology Corp | $325.6M |
| 10 | Novitas Solutions, Inc. | $307.7M |
| 11 | Noridian Healthcare Solutions, LLC | $305.7M |
| 12 | Palmetto Gba, LLC | $295.2M |
| 13 | Accenture Federal Services LLC | $247.9M |
| 14 | The Mitre Corporation | $228.0M |
| 15 | Serco Inc | $225.0M |
| 16 | Bavarian Nordic a/S | $222.9M |
| 17 | Emergent Product Development Gaithersburg Inc. | $221.5M |
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Nearby mega-scale agencies
Data-derived peers across the USAspending agency extract: nearest contract-obligation scale and nearest budget authority. Not recommendations or same-department siblings.
Closest CY2024 contract obligations
Similar budget authority
- Department of Defense (DOD) $2098.7B
- Department of the Treasury (TREAS) $4706.8B
- Social Security Administration (SSA) $1271.5B
- Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) $524.2B
- Office of Personnel Management (OPM) $384.4B
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) $332.9B
Disclaimer: Data from USAspending.gov public records. For informational purposes only. Contract amounts are aggregated and may not reflect the most current modifications or de-obligations. Always verify with official sources.
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