The Chicago School - California Inc.

The Chicago School - California Inc., doing business as The Chicago School Of Professional Psychology, is a private non-profit graduate institution based in Los Angeles, California, that delivers tuition and educational services to the Department of the Navy as a prime contractor under firm-fixed-price delivery orders, with no set-aside designation across its federal footprint.

The Chicago School specializes in graduate-level psychology and counseling programs serving Navy and Marine Corps personnel pursuing advanced degrees in healthcare and mental health disciplines. The institution operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) and has no subcontract footprint. It competes in full-and-open procurements without SBA certifications or set-aside categories.

The Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery is the dominant customer, accounting for 23 awards with $269 thousand in combined potential value, issued under two active Basic Ordering Agreements — N0018919GZ079 (17 task orders, $168 thousand combined potential value) and N0018923GZ025 (8 task orders, $296 thousand combined potential value) — running through August 31, 2033. The second-highest customer is the Department of the Navy (4 awards, $196 thousand combined potential value) on separate delivery orders. The Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education has issued 5 federal grant awards. Across the Navy customer base, individual delivery orders range from $5 thousand to $69 thousand, with recent orders in May 2026 ($57 thousand) and January 2026 ($69 thousand) for summer and spring tuition terms.

Beyond delivery orders, The Chicago School received two COVID-19 relief grants from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Education Stabilization Fund's CARES Act (CFDA #84.425): a $2.72 million project grant awarded July 31, 2021 (completed July 31, 2022) and a $1.65 million project grant awarded July 13, 2022 (completed July 12, 2023), both providing emergency financial aid to graduate students facing pandemic-related hardship.

Activity has remained flat year over year — three awards in 2022, 2024, and 2025; two in 2023 and 2026 — with combined potential value of $464 thousand across all 32 prime awards. However, combined dollars obligated total $10.2 million, more than twenty times the potential value figure, reflecting the institution's role as a service provider where obligations accumulate across multiple small delivery orders over sustained multi-year relationships. All 27 contract and BOA awards are categorized under NAICS "Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools" and PSC "Education/Training—Tuition/Registration/Membership Fees."