Colorado State University System

Colorado State University System is a public university system in Colorado that provides a wide range of research, education, and technical services to the U.S. federal government through contract and grant awards. The system includes multiple campuses, with Colorado State University in Fort Collins serving as the flagship institution. As a land-grant university, Colorado State has a strong focus on agricultural and environmental sciences, as well as engineering, veterinary medicine, and other STEM fields. Through its Sponsored Programs division, the university system offers expertise in areas like wildlife management, infectious disease research, climate science, and advanced technology development.

Colorado State University has provided diverse goods and services to federal agencies through prime and sub-contract awards. This includes wildlife and land resource management for agencies like the Department of Interior, agricultural research for the USDA, infectious disease studies for NIH, satellite data analysis and climate modeling for NASA and NOAA, wildfire modeling for the U.S. Forest Service, radiation health research for the Department of Energy, and meteorology research and forecasting tools for multiple agencies. The university has partnered with other academic institutions, national laboratories, non-profits, and private companies on federal contracts. While set-aside designations are generally not specified, Colorado State leverages its status as a land-grant institution to compete for awards related to agriculture, natural resources, and rural development.

Through federal grant awards, Colorado State University has conducted research and provided services on topics such as DNA replication in extreme environments, groundwater withdrawal estimation, tropical cyclone forecasting, snow hydrology, bark beetle impacts on forests, agricultural genomics, sustainable photocatalysis, gravitational wave detection, social science research on team dynamics, and rural community health education. Major funding agencies for grants have included NSF, NIH, NASA, USDA, and DOE. The university frequently collaborates with other research institutions and community partners on grant-funded projects. As a Hispanic Serving Institution, Colorado State University-Pueblo has received grants focused on increasing STEM education access for underrepresented students.

Colorado State University currently holds a $200,000 blanket purchase agreement with the Department of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation for services related to analysis and expert testimony on containment of supplemental livestock feed routes near bodies of water. This single-award BPA runs through June 2026 and allows the Bureau to quickly access Colorado State's expertise in agricultural and environmental sciences. The initial task order under this vehicle provides $75,000 for containment analysis services related to supplemental feed impacts on local water bodies. While this appears to be the primary IDV held by the university system, Colorado State likely has other ongoing indefinite delivery contracts with agencies like USDA and DOD to provide on-call research and technical services in its areas of expertise.