Florida International University

Florida International University, doing business as Finance And Administration, is a public Hispanic-Serving Institution based in Miami, Florida that acts as a prime recipient and contractor across federal research, education, and training programs. FIU operates as a research university rather than a commercial service provider, deriving its federal footprint from grants, cooperative agreements, and limited contract work rather than from set-aside competition or fixed-price service delivery. The institution competes full-and-open without set-aside designations across its portfolio.

FIU's federal activity spans 2,263 prime awards (89% of recent volume) across 238 distinct customer agencies, with 2,536 total awards generating $215.7 million in combined potential value and $2.55 billion in obligated dollars. The top-five customer agencies by award count—National Science Foundation (493 awards), National Institutes of Health (96), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (72), National Park Service Southeast Region (62), and Office of Postsecondary Education (55)—account for 31% of awards. By combined potential value, NASA Shared Services Center leads with $14.5 million across 52 awards, followed by NOAA ($7 million), Office of the Secretary of Defense ($4.1 million), Federal Highway Administration ($823 thousand), and NPS Southeast Region ($516 thousand). The concentration of dollar value differs from award-count distribution: NSF carries high award volume but lower per-award magnitude, while NASA and DoD awards carry larger dollar ceilings.

FIU's capability portfolio centers on academic research, workforce development, and technical services. Representative work includes $9 million in NSF Integrative Activities funding to maintain and enhance the AMLight international network infrastructure serving the Vera Rubin Observatory and U.S.-led global science initiatives across the Americas and Africa; $14.745 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for longitudinal research on the Miami Adult Studies on HIV cohort, expanding from 1,439 to 1,879 participants through June 2030; $4.05 million from NIST for windstorm research instrumentation enhancements to the Wall of Wind facility for extreme climate scenario simulation; $2.499 million from the National Human Genome Research Institute for the FIU Center for Genome Research establishing administrative, workforce development, and community engagement cores; and $1.292 million from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) for research on carbon pools and gas fluxes in peatland ecosystems. SCI-reported federal service contract revenue totaled $20.4 million across FY2022–FY2025 (FY2022: $7.7 million; FY2023: $6.5 million; FY2024: $4.7 million; FY2025: $1.6 million), with 31–39 FTEs per fiscal year at median government-paid rates around $64.82/hr and senior labor through $160/hr. GSA Schedule labor categories span $53.44–$298.37/hr without security clearance requirements.

FIU holds two prime IDVs: a $3.659 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract with Naval Sea Systems Command for Expeditionary Exploitation Unit One (EXU-1) procurement, sustainment, and training in support of Expeditionary Document and Media Exploitation (DOMEX) operations through May 2029, and a $4.428 million multiple-award Other Transaction with DARPA for the Transfer from Imprecise and Abstract Models to Autonomous Technologies (TIAMAT) program. The institution functions as a subcontractor to major primes including Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (management and operation of the National Security Campus), Lockheed Martin (TIS trainer support), and Consolidated Nuclear Security (Y-12 facility reimbursable funding).

Activity has declined year-over-year: 188 awards in 2023, 217 in 2024, 127 in 2025, 70 in 2026, and 1 in 2027. Within the next 24 months, 168 awards with combined potential value of $5.7 million reach ultimate completion, creating recompete opportunity. FIU operates 89% as prime and 11% as subcontractor, building its own delivery teams rather than subcontracting; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, sub-hours share averages 0%, indicating minimal use of named subcontractors. Recent federal grant sub-recipients include the University of Colorado (imaging science research), University of Florida (mosquito surveillance and population reduction), University of Pittsburgh (pediatric precision sleep network), North Dakota State University (nano-enabled smart sensors for plant health), and Florida Atlantic University (Florida Summer Institute in Biostatistics and Data Science). FIU's geographic footprint centers on Miami but extends to subordinate performance locations including Chesapeake, Virginia (Coast Guard maritime security training), Indian Head, Maryland (Naval DOMEX operations), Vicksburg, Mississippi (Corps of Engineers research), and nationwide for NSF-funded educational programming.