Florida International University

Florida International University Student Financials Division, doing business as Student Financial Office, is a public research university operating as a federal contract prime on tuition and educational services delivery and as a grant sub-recipient on applied health research. FIU is a minority-serving institution and Hispanic-serving institution with no SBA set-aside certifications; it competes in full-and-open procurements under its own institutional authority as a state-controlled higher-learning entity. The university is headquartered in North Miami Beach, Florida.

FIU's federal footprint concentrates almost entirely on Navy tuition reimbursement delivered through its Student Financials Division. Across 53 awards (46 prime, 7 sub), the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery accounts for 92% of award count and 100% of combined potential value — 38 delivery orders totaling $1.8 million placed against a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement (N0018912GZ009) established in September 2022 with performance through September 2032. Typical orders run $12,800 to $44,800 for quarterly tuition and fees covering Navy military personnel attending FIU's Miami campus on a firm fixed-price basis; recent examples include a $12,802 order for summer tuition (March–July 2026, awarded April 14, 2026), a $32,005 order for tuition through March 2026 (awarded December 11, 2025), and a $44,807 order for tuition through March 2025 (awarded November 20, 2024). A second Navy BOA (N0018922GZ006) carries 5 task orders ($147 thousand combined potential value) for similar tuition services, also running through 2032.

Beyond Navy tuition work, FIU holds one prime federal grant with the Department of State Bureau of African Affairs for technical assistance in curriculum development and alignment with Botswana educational partners (awarded October 1, 2022, ultimate completion December 31, 2024). The university also acts as a sub-recipient on health and epidemiology research funded through the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse and through the University of Pennsylvania, including tobacco control and cannabis cardiovascular risk research. Sub-awards involve faculty expertise contributions rather than institutional financial processing; FIU researchers serve as co-investigators on projects such as Project SMART (vaping prevention among sexual and gender minority youth) and cannabis-cardiovascular risk studies.

Activity trended downward in recent years — six awards in 2024 declined to three in 2025 and two in 2026 through mid-July. One award carries ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months ($13 thousand potential value). Combined dollars obligated across all awards ($3.6 million) exceed combined potential value ($1.9 million) by 188 percent, indicating historical over-obligation relative to stated ceiling values on Navy delivery orders. The university operates no subcontractor network and does not hold any parent contract vehicles beyond the two Navy BOAs.