Association Of American Medical Colleges

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is a non-profit organization representing U.S. and Canadian medical schools, teaching hospitals, and academic societies. As a national leader in medical education and healthcare advancement, AAMC provides comprehensive support services to federal agencies through both prime contracts and grants, facilitating collaboration between academic medical institutions and the federal government on critical health workforce and public health initiatives. The organization is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and maintains established relationships across multiple federal agencies including the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

AAMC's federal contract portfolio demonstrates a sustained focus on membership services, faculty data analytics, and conference support across multiple federal agencies and departments. The organization has been awarded numerous purchase orders and blanket purchase agreement calls valued collectively in the range of several hundred thousand dollars, with membership dues and fees constituting the primary contract vehicle. These membership contracts have been awarded by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, which has been a consistent partner awarding annual membership fees ranging from approximately $32,000 to $79,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026. Additionally, AAMC received significant contract awards from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for FY24 Faculty Roster Data valued at $245,000, which included modifications to facilitate monthly payment structures. The organization has also received conference-related contracts from the Office of the Secretary at the Department of Defense for booth space at AAMC annual meetings, with awards of $14,100 in 2022, $16,600 in 2024, and $17,600 in 2025. Multiple Veterans Integrated Service Networks across the Department of Veterans Affairs have awarded AAMC contracts for Council of Teaching Hospitals membership fees, typically valued at $10,000 to $10,340 per award, with VISN 22, VISN 17, VISN 6, VISN 16, VISN 23, VISN 2, and VISN 10 all appearing as funding entities. The NIH Clinical Center also contracted with AAMC for membership renewal services. All identified contracts utilized open competition with no set-aside designations, reflecting AAMC's competitive standing in the federal marketplace for medical education and healthcare institutional services.

AAMC's federal grant portfolio includes significant work in infectious disease response and clinical guidance dissemination through a cooperative agreement with the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. The prime grant award, spanning from February 1, 2021 through March 29, 2025, focused on improving clinical and public health outcomes through national partnerships to prevent and control emerging and re-emerging infectious disease threats. This initiative built upon AAMC's established expertise in rapid response to public health crises, including prior work on the Ebola outbreak and ongoing engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant-funded work involved expanding AAMC's Coronavirus Clinical Guidance Repository, developing and growing clinical leader virtual learning communities and collaboratives, implementing leadership training programs, and facilitating collaborations between academic medical centers and community partners to reach at-risk populations. The organization also provided live virtual training sessions on CDC clinical guidelines to academic medical center faculty and clinicians and convened multidisciplinary advisory panels to support CDC guidance development. Additionally, AAMC served as a prime grantee for the TRANSFORM (TRANSforming Bio-medical Research & Academic Faculty through Opportunity, TRaining, & Mentorship) program, in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh, indicating AAMC's broader role in workforce development and research training initiatives within the academic medical community. This cooperative agreement and related grant work demonstrate AAMC's capacity to serve as a coordinating entity for federal health agencies in disseminating clinical guidance and building organizational capacity within academic and clinical healthcare networks.