Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
- UEI
- PCWWUCWEV363
- CAGE
- 3Z0J7
- Primary NAICS
- 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- SAM.gov registration
- Active through
Company facts
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Tax Exempt)
- Other NAICS codes in SAM.gov
- Corporate family
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- Bard College · Barrytown, NY M9PXP84KBEU7
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- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- Blithewood Manor, 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 12504, USA
- Website
- bard.edu
- Founded
- 1860
- Employees
- 1K-5K
- Estimated annual revenue
- $250M-$500M
- Industry
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- Consumer Discretionary
- Diversified Consumer Services
- Education Services
- Education
- SIC code
- 82 Educational Services
- Profiles
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Contract obligations by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2027 To date | $0 |
| FY2026 | $0 |
| FY2025 | $0 |
| FY2024 | -$104,672 |
Contract awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Grant awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Grant subawards
| Prime recipient | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duke University | 2118453 | $228,428 | |
| New York State Division Of Homeland Security & Emergency Services | 4480DRNYP00000001 | $157,443 | |
| New York State Division Of Homeland Security & Emergency Services | 4480DRNYP00000001 | $91,500 | |
| New York State Division Of Homeland Security & Emergency Services | 4480DRNYP00000001 | $436,250 | |
| New York State Division Of Homeland Security & Emergency Services | 4480DRNYP00000001 | $210,000 |
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About the company
Bard College, a private non-profit university based in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, is a federal grant recipient operating as a prime grantee across basic research, humanities, education, and international development programs with 136 of its 141 recent federal awards (96%) as prime recipient positions and no direct federal contract footprint.
Bard College's federal work spans academic research, cultural programming, educational infrastructure, and international engagement. The institution acts as prime recipient on grants funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (59 awards), the National Endowment for the Humanities (16 awards), the National Science Foundation (9 awards), the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education (9 awards), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center (8 awards, $138 thousand combined potential value). Representative work includes a $300 thousand Department of Energy Office of Science grant for research on leveraging novel symmetries for noise-resilient topological quantum computation (ultimate completion September 14, 2027), a $427 thousand National Institute of General Medical Sciences grant for synthesis and biochemical evaluation of ruthenium-based compounds as pharmaceutical agents (ultimate completion August 31, 2028), a $4.5 million Department of Education grant supporting the Bard Prison Initiative to provide postsecondary education programs to incarcerated individuals with the goal of reducing recidivism and supporting economic development (ultimate completion August 31, 2027), and a $500 thousand National Endowment for the Humanities grant to develop the Wihanble S'a Center at Bard College, which will create indigenous protocols to guide the creation and refinement of AI wearable and digital technologies grounded in indigenous knowledge and Western dream science (ultimate completion December 31, 2027). Bard also received a $1.611 million National Park Service Save America's Treasures grant for physical preservation work at the historic Montgomery Place property, including roof, stucco, and interior repairs, with a dollar-for-dollar non-federal cost share requirement (ultimate completion September 30, 2026).
The institution's customer concentration reflects a humanities and basic-research orientation rather than federal IT or defense work. Awards tracked across 33 distinct federal agencies concentrate in the arts and humanities with the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities accounting for 72% of award count. The top customer by potential dollar value is the Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (1 award, $298 thousand), though this concentration metric is driven by the institution's sub-million-dollar grant portfolio structure rather than large single awards. Four awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure.
In its sub-recipient role, Bard College performs contracted work under Duke University on a computer science degree attainment analysis project (award date August 22, 2025) and received emergency and homeland-security pass-through funding from the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (sub-awards dating December 2021 through October 2023). The institution has no named federal contract primes and does not hold a seat on government-wide acquisition vehicles, IDIQs, BPAs, or GSA Schedules. Federal activity has declined sharply — eleven awards in 2022, falling to one award in 2026 year-to-date — reflecting the episodic and project-based nature of academic research and cultural-programming grants. The institution's federal footprint is characterized by Principal Investigator-led basic research in physics, chemistry, and astrophysics; humanities and cultural infrastructure work through the arts and humanities agencies; and education-focused initiatives in prison education and computational literacy across non-computer-science disciplines.
Quick answers
Is Bard College registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Bard College's SAM.gov registration is active through March 19, 2027.
What is Bard College's most recent federal award?
Bard College's most recent federal grant award is Conference: biennial mathematics and computation for music conference (2612079), from Division of Mathematical Sciences, on June 1, 2026.
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