Florida State University

Florida State University, a U.S. state government and state-controlled institution of higher learning based in Tallahassee, Florida, operates as a prime contractor and recipient delivering educational services, tuition and fees for military personnel training, and sponsored research and development work to federal agencies, with 96 percent of its 451 federal awards structured as prime contracts or grants. FSU does not compete on set-asides and does not hold government-wide vehicles; the university operates as a prime recipient under customer-specific indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements with the Department of the Navy and other agencies.

The Department of the Navy dominates FSU's federal customer base by both award count and potential value. Navy organizations account for 185 of the top five customers by award count—the Department of the Navy itself (74 awards, $131 thousand combined potential value), the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (32 awards, $1.4 million combined potential value), the Bureau of Naval Personnel (18 awards, $610 thousand combined potential value)—and the Naval Education and Training Command (24 awards, $3.3 million combined potential value), Naval Sea Systems Command (7 awards, $1.6 million combined potential value) rank among the top customers by potential-value concentration. The Department of the Army (33 awards) and the Department of the Air Force (33 awards, $78 thousand combined potential value) round out the top five by count; the US Agency for International Development (25 awards) and NASA Goddard Space Center (5 awards, $1.6 million) reflect FSU's secondary research customer base. Together the top five customers by award count account for 44 percent of awards, though the top five by potential value cover only 27 percent of combined potential value, signaling concentration in Navy operational tuition orders that carry small individual dollar values but high frequency.

FSU's capability portfolio centers on military personnel education: tuition and fees covering naval officer training (NROTC midshipmen courses and Master of Science in Systems Engineering through the Naval Sea Systems Command BPA), medical and nursing education for Navy personnel, and related graduate coursework in maritime sciences and systems engineering. The Naval Sea Systems Command Blanket Purchase Agreement (ceiling $1.2 million, running through August 2025) has generated seven calls totaling approximately $437 thousand for master's-level systems engineering and maritime sciences coursework. Recent representative tuition and fees delivery orders include a $46.6 thousand Department of the Navy order (August 2025), a $28.5 thousand summer-term order (March 2025), and a $24.7 thousand Bureau of Medicine and Surgery order (August 2024), all for tuition and fees. FSU also holds three government-wide vehicle seats: Basic Ordering Agreement N0018916GZ007 (34 task orders, $1.5 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract N0018909GZ252 (25 task orders, $2.4 million combined potential value), and Basic Ordering Agreement N0018919GZ014 (14 task orders, $503 thousand combined potential value), all Navy vehicles.

Beyond military education contracting, FSU acts as a federal grant recipient through the Bureau of Health Professionals. The university holds a Nurse Faculty Loan Program grant (CFDA line not specified, awarded July 2024, ultimate completion June 2099) designed to address projected nursing faculty shortages by offering loan cancellation (up to 85 percent) to nurses pursuing advanced degrees and faculty roles, with a focus on recruiting underrepresented and diverse candidates from rural and underserved communities. FSU also participates as a sub-recipient in state and nonprofit-grantee research programs: the State of Florida Department of Transportation has awarded FSU sub-grants for street racing prevention, traffic and criminal software support and training (TraCS), safe mobility coalition work, and electronic license and vehicle information systems (ELVIS) implementation; the Research Foundation of the City University of New York has subcontracted FSU support for dissolved organic matter and remote sensing research; Georgia State University Research Foundation engaged FSU for reading research analysis; and Family Health International (a nonprofit grantee) has subcontracted FSU for literacy education capacity-building work in Rwanda. A single contract sub-award is recorded: HII Mission Technologies Corp engaged FSU (October 2022) for scientific test and analysis techniques research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) support under a STAT COE (Science, Technology, Analysis, and Testing Center of Excellence) program.

Activity has remained flat to declining over the past five years (11 awards in 2022 declining to 1 award in 2026 through mid-February, with 2023–2025 averaging 10 awards per year), reflecting the recurring, modest dollar-value tuition-and-fees structure of the Navy's primary ordering pattern. Combined potential value across all 451 awards stands at $31.2 million, though combined dollars obligated ($72.1 million) exceeds potential value by 231 percent, indicating that many awards—particularly smaller tuition orders—have been fully obligated and completed. The source data spans from 1980 to February 2026 and does not carry a formal recompete-cliff forecast; however, the concentration in Navy tuition delivery orders and small-value research subcalls suggests limited recompete risk in the traditional sense, as these are recurring operational funding flows rather than competitive vehicle or task-order re-bids.