El Paso County Community College District

El Paso County Community College District, doing business as El Paso Community College, is a public, Hispanic-Serving Institution that operates as a federal grant recipient delivering vocational and occupational training, curriculum development, and workforce-development services to federal agencies and as a sub-recipient on workforce and STEM-education grants from the Texas Workforce Commission and universities. EPCC competes full-and-open (no set-aside designations across its federal footprint) and derives the majority of its federal activity from grant funding rather than federal contracts.

EPCC's federal footprint centers on occupational training and curriculum development grounded in recent grant work. As a prime recipient, EPCC holds a $484 thousand cooperative agreement from the National Human Genome Research Institute (CFDA 93.172) through August 2028 to develop and implement computational genomics and cloud computing curriculum modules for biomedical and health-related associate degrees, serving approximately 8,734 students annually in introductory life sciences courses. EPCC also received a $372 thousand project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education (CFDA 47.076) effective October 2026 to design, implement, and evaluate a stackable occupational skills award in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity embedded within an Associate of Science in Computer Science pathway, with dissemination targeting other two-year institutions. A $709 thousand cooperative agreement from the Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Procurement Technical Assistance for Business Firms program (CFDA 12.002) funds an APEX Accelerator center providing free procurement technical assistance to business entities including newly started firms through April 2027. On the contract side, EPCC holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons valued at $520 thousand through November 2028 to deliver accredited welding instruction to inmates at the Satellite Camp Prison La Tuna; the Bureau has issued task orders on an as-needed basis under this vehicle. EPCC also delivered a $687 thousand 25-week Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic certification course for up to 32 trainees at the William Beaumont Army Medical Center (Defense Health Agency) with ultimate completion in June 2026, and a $50 thousand Shadows to Light instructor-led training program for the Federal Correctional Institution La Tuna (Department of Justice) completed September 2024.

Customer concentration splits between the Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education and the Department of the Army at twenty awards each, with the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration and the Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration each holding nine awards. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution La Tuna anchors 72% of combined potential value across the portfolio ($1.4 million), though the portfolio spans 29 distinct customer agencies. EPCC places task orders under Army Basic Ordering Agreements (DABT5181G0006 with eight task orders and DABT5186D0104 with four task orders) and holds multiple IDCs with the Bureau of Prisons. The sub-award footprint includes workforce-training and apprenticeship sub-grants from the Texas Workforce Commission (Apprenticeship Training Program, Building Capacity in Healthcare Fields, Externships for Teachers) and STEM-pathway sub-grants from the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Oklahoma. Activity has fluctuated over the past five years (ten awards in 2023, declining to three in 2026), with three awards reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. EPCC's service posture targets underserved and first-generation student populations, with place of performance centered at the El Paso, Texas campus and subordinate locations including correctional facilities and Army medical centers.