College Of Southern Maryland

College Of Southern Maryland, a public state-controlled community college based in La Plata, Maryland, operates as a prime contractor and grant recipient providing facility rental services and specialized support to federal agencies, predominantly the Department of the Navy, with no SBA set-aside designations across its federal footprint. The institution competes full-and-open on Navy contracts for conference space and meeting facilities while also acting as a direct grant recipient and sub-recipient for education, workforce development, and training programs across multiple federal agencies.

CSM's federal portfolio centers on two concrete capability streams. First, facility rental and event support: the college leases various-sized rooms, conference spaces, and training facilities at its Indian Head, Maryland location to support naval shipbuilding, fleet maintenance, research, and operational activities. A representative example is the $2.27 million single-award indefinite delivery contract awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) on December 5, 2025, covering facility rentals through December 2030, against which NAVSEA has already issued delivery orders totaling approximately $313 thousand in the past two months. CSM also holds an earlier NAVSEA IDV valued at approximately $2.05 million with over $650 thousand in cumulative task orders issued since award. A $440,932 delivery order from December 2024 for Room C at Indian Head exemplifies the firm fixed-price structure of these awards. Second, education and recruitment services: CSM has delivered engineering student recruitment support to the Naval Air Warfare Center, with recurring $72 thousand purchase orders (awarded October 2023, October 2024, and November 2025) and a $100,755 incremental funding award in October 2024. As a prime grant recipient, CSM administers mine safety and health training programs under formula grants from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (CFDA not specified), with awards issued October 2021, October 2022, October 2023, and October 2024, each running fiscal-year cycles. CSM also holds a $219,900 National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 47.084) supporting an eight-month microelectronics experiential learning project for community college students in partnership with the University of Maryland, College Park, running through September 2026. The college received a $550 thousand Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education project grant for health sciences equipment, awarded October 2022 and completing October 2025.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward Navy agencies. Naval Sea Systems Command dominates the portfolio with 37 awards carrying $6.7 million in combined potential value—64 percent of the award count. Naval Air Warfare Center contributes 11 awards valued at $612 thousand. Together, Navy entities account for approximately 42 percent of awards by count but anchor roughly 73 percent of potential contract dollars. This disparity reflects the large facility-rental IDVs that NAVSEA holds with CSM. General Services Administration accounts for 3 awards with $1.8 million combined potential value, primarily through building-services channels. The Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education carries 14 awards but only $3 thousand in combined potential value, signaling small grant or administrative awards. The Small Business Administration and Environmental Protection Agency round out the active customer set with six and five awards respectively, each with negligible dollar value. CSM's top three parent vehicles are the NAVSEA IDC N0017421D0003 (7 task orders, $1.7 million), NAVSEA IDC N0017426D1002 (3 task orders, $401 thousand), and NAVSEA IDC N0017482C0007 (1 task order). The recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months includes 5 awards with combined potential value of $533 thousand.

CSM operates as a sub-recipient for federal grant work through state-administered programs. The college receives pass-through funding from the Maryland State Department of Education for Perkins Career and Technical Education grants (awarded July 2024 and July 2025) and from the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation for adult education partnership grants (awarded August 2024 and August 2025). CSM also serves as a sub-recipient under University of Maryland, College Park's Small Business Development Center program, receiving awards in November 2021, August 2022, July 2023, August 2024, and April 2025.

Recent activity has remained flat at approximately 6–7 awards per year from 2022 through 2025, with one prime contract delivery order awarded in January 2026. Combined potential value across all 121 awards in the source data totals $9.2 million, though obligated dollars ($36.1 million) substantially exceed potential value, indicating a mature customer relationship with CSM drawing down multi-year funding commitments. CSM competes exclusively on full-and-open terms; the vendor has no minority-owned, women-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, or 8(a) designations and does not leverage set-aside vehicles. The institution's federal positioning centers on leveraging its regional infrastructure in southern Maryland and its educational mission as a state-controlled public community college to serve Navy facility and training needs in proximity to the Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center and Naval Air Warfare Center Patuxent River.