California Northstate University, LLC

California Northstate University, LLC, a private for-profit educational institution based in Elk Grove, California, receives federal funding for tuition and fees support for military personnel and their dependents as a prime contractor, with limited subrecipient involvement in federal research grants. The university operates in full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

California Northstate University operates almost entirely within a single delivery-order relationship. Twenty of the university's twenty-three federal contract awards (94% of its award count) are delivery orders issued by the Department of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery under a single Basic Ordering Agreement (N0018917GZ005), collectively valued at $3.6 million in combined potential. These awards fund tuition and fee support for military members, families, and dependents pursuing educational opportunities at the university's campuses. Representative contracts include a $614 thousand delivery order awarded June 28, 2024, with ultimate completion May 30, 2025; a $486 thousand delivery order awarded June 4, 2025, for the academic year ending May 29, 2026; and a $224 thousand delivery order awarded June 9, 2025, for the annual term July 2025 through June 2026. All Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery contracts are priced on a firm fixed price basis. Three additional Navy delivery orders, separate from the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery vehicle, carry $880 thousand in combined potential value. The university's contract footprint is concentrated in NAICS Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (23 awards) and PSC Education/Training—Tuition/Registration/Membership Fees (23 awards).

California Northstate University has also engaged with the National Institutes of Health—specifically the National Cancer Institute and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute—and the Health Resources and Services Administration's Bureau of Health Professionals, each through two federal awards. The source describes the university as a subrecipient on federal grants from the Department of the Army, NIH, and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute totaling over $5.8 million between 2019 and 2020 for research projects in cancer immunotherapies, synthetic lethality, and sex disparities in pulmonary arterial hypertension, with partnerships including the University of California San Francisco and Georgia State University. Most recently, on March 13, 2025, the Regents of the University of California San Francisco named California Northstate University as a sub-award recipient to participate in planning activities, needs and capacity analysis, training, and technical assistance for a virtual dental health system implementation, including staff training and electronic dental records system assessments.

Activity has remained flat at two to three awards per year over 2022–2025, with one award in 2026. Only one award—the June 2026 Navy delivery order for $168 thousand—reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. Combined dollars obligated ($14.4 million) exceed combined potential value ($4.5 million) by 322 percent, indicating that the university has realized substantially higher invoiced revenue against its contract ceilings over time.