Augusta University

Augusta University, operating through its Cashier's Office, is a state-controlled institution of higher learning within the University System of Georgia that serves as a prime recipient of federal contracts and grants for medical education, research assistance, dental care, and workforce development services, competing full-and-open without set-asides across all major award vehicles.

The institution's federal footprint spans 311 awards across five decades, with recent annual activity averaging nine to fourteen awards per year in 2022–2025. Augusta University holds two multi-year indefinite delivery vehicles: a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement (N0018925GZ003) with the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery running through October 31, 2034, and a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (V247P1322) with the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 valued at $1.77 million through September 29, 2028. The Navy BOA serves as the primary vehicle for recurring tuition-and-fees delivery orders; four recent orders under N0018925GZ003 ranged from $17,506 to $36,003.50 each for Navy medical education support through mid-2026. Under the VA IDC, Augusta University has placed delivery orders for research assistance services, including a $652,059.23 order with performance through March 12, 2025 and a $27,186.97 order targeting September 2025 completion.

Customer concentration reflects deep entrenchment in federal healthcare and medical education procurement. The top five funding agencies account for 70% of all awards and 98% of combined potential value, led by the VA's Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 (54 awards, $50.6 million combined potential value) and the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (91 awards, $3.5 million combined potential value). The two rankings diverge sharply: the Navy drives volume through low-value tuition orders, while VISN 7 anchors the dollars through multi-year research assistance and medical education contracts. Supporting customers include the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (39 awards), the Bureau of Health Professionals (19 awards), and the Army Medical Command (15 awards, $437 thousand combined potential value). Over recent years, awards have been issued under the Navy's Indefinite Delivery Contracts N0014098G2452 (47 task orders, $1.4 million combined potential value) and N0018913GZ009 (44 task orders, $2 million combined potential value), the VA's IDC V247P1322 (14 task orders, $132 thousand combined potential value), and multiple other vehicles anchored by the Navy and VA.

Augusta University operates 95% as a prime awardee, with 17 sub-awards (5%) representing minor sub-recipient roles under larger institutional grant vehicles. Recent sub-award activity includes participation in University of Florida–led NIH research on neurodegenerative disease (Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy studies, awards through 2024–2025), a Rhode Island Hospital–led research project on kidney damage prevention, and multiple emergency management sub-awards under Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency as the pass-through prime. The institution performs no named subcontracting on federal contracts; federal service delivery is accomplished through institutional staffing.

Federal grant activity includes nine prime recipients across multiple grantor agencies. Notable recent awards include a $950,822 Project Grant from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (CFDA 84.184) for school mental health workforce development ("TRAIN & RETAIN: A UNIVERSITY-DISTRICT PARTNERSHIP TO STRENGTHEN STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH," award January 1, 2025, completion December 31, 2025); a $1 million Project Grant from the Office of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) supporting the Center for Telehealth, addiction medicine fellowship, and nursing education (June 1, 2023–May 31, 2026); a $2.1 million Project Grant under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) for the Medical College of Georgia 3+ innovative curriculum (September 2022–August 2025); and a $272,364 TRIO Student Support Services award from the Office of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.042) effective September 25, 2025–September 24, 2026. Additional grant funding flows from the Bureau of Health Professionals for behavioral health workforce education (July 1, 2025–June 30, 2029), the Rural Utilities Service for telemedicine (awarded September 11, 2024, through September 11, 2026), the Community Oriented Policing Program for law enforcement technology, and the HIV/AIDS Bureau for Ryan White Title III HIV capacity development.

Service Contract Inventory data for FY2023 reports $3.8 million in invoiced revenue across 53.8 FTEs on prime contracts above the $150,000 threshold; SCI captures only a subset of Augusta University's federal medical education and research services work. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable contracts cluster tightly around $34/hr (10th percentile $33.79/hr, median $34/hr, 90th percentile $34.09/hr), consistent with university-based medical and educational support labor. The institution delivered no identified subcontracted labor on SCI-reportable prime contracts in the period captured.

Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months totals $1.9 million across ten awards, creating near-term opportunity for competitive challenge on smaller research assistance and educational service delivery orders, though the multi-year Navy BOA and VA IDC vehicles provide structural continuity through their 2028–2034 terms.