Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL Doing business as Sponsored Research Administration
- UEI
- JF2BLNN4PJC3
- CAGE
- 3S772
- Primary NAICS
- 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- SAM.gov registration
- Active through
Company facts
- FY2025 rankings
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Other
- Other NAICS codes in SAM.gov
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- 541330 Engineering Services
- 541713 Research and Development in Nanotechnology
- 541714 Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)
- 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- 541720 Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Corporate family
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- The Florida State University Research Foundation, Incorporated · Tallahassee, FL GTB5K1XBF9Y7
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- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 874 Traditions Way, Tallahassee, FL 32304, USA
- Website
- fsu.edu
- Founded
- 1851
- Employees
- 10K-50K
- Estimated annual revenue
- $1B-$10B
- Industry
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- Consumer Discretionary
- Diversified Consumer Services
- Education Services
- Education
- SIC code
- 82 Educational Services
- Profiles
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Contract obligations by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2027 To date | $0 |
| FY2026 | $5,117,188 |
| FY2025 | $8,265,818 |
| FY2024 | $18,095,801 |
| FY2023 | $12,717,711 |
Top agencies by obligations
| Rank | Agency | Obligated, FY2026–FY2027 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Department of Education | $1,918,147 | |
| 2 | Department of the Navy | $1,760,000 | |
| 3 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $740,200 | |
| 4 | Department of Commerce | $349,678 | |
| 5 | Department of the Army | $337,505 | |
| 6 | Peace Corps | $11,158 | |
| 7 | Missile Defense Agency | $500 |
Contract vehicles
Contract awards
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Contract subawards
| Prime contractor | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. | 75N93019C00052 | $250,000 | |
| Amentum Technology, Inc. | 80KSC023DA016 | $67,070 | |
| Leidos, Inc. | N6264522F0010 | $30,000 | |
| Michigan Technological University | FA239424CB014 | $1,998,040 | |
| University Of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. | 75N93019C00052 | $240,000 |
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Grant awards
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Grant subawards
| Prime recipient | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayo Clinic | R01HL185686 | $76,994 | |
| Florida Department Of Education | H027A260024 | $1,647,438 | |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | U54AI170855 | $89,209 | |
| Georgia TECH Research Corp | DEEE0010193 | $30,000 | |
| Florida A & M University | 24DG11083150705 | $44,503 |
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About the company
Florida State University's Sponsored Research Administration Division, a state-controlled non-profit research institution headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida, operates as a prime recipient of federal research grants and contracts across civilian science agencies, with recent activity spanning 3,147 total awards (2,651 prime, 496 sub) valued at $509.7 million in combined potential and $3.65 billion in cumulative obligated dollars since 1977. The university competes on full-and-open merit basis with no set-asides, positioning itself as a comprehensive research university delivering advanced scientific and engineering services.
FSU's customer concentration reflects a research institution footprint. The top five funding agencies by award count—the National Science Foundation (653 awards), NASA Shared Services Center (150 awards, $34.7 million), the National Institutes of Health (112 awards), NOAA (99 awards, $2.4 million), and the Navy (66 awards)—account for 34% of recent awards. By potential value, the Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences leads with 59 awards worth $81.5 million, followed by NASA ($34.7 million), ONR ($2.8 million), NOAA ($2.4 million), and the Air Force ($310 thousand). The divergence between count and dollar rankings reveals NSF's high-volume, modest-dollar model versus Education's concentrated, high-value grants. Recent representative awards include a Naval Sea Systems Command definitive contract for $99.5 million on model-based systems engineering (June 2026), a NOAA purchase order for $1.87 million on the Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (September 2026), and an FDA definitive contract for $2.28 million on decentralizing clinical trials with AI and digital health (September 2025). FSU also placed an initial delivery order for five hundred dollars under the Missile Defense Agency's $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ (December 2025), supporting future task orders in systems engineering and advanced defense technologies.
Prime federal contract vehicles in FSU's footprint are minimal in the source data; the identified IDV is the SHIELD contract noted above. Federal grant activity dominates, with individual project grants from NSF, NIH, NASA, NOAA, DoE, and USDA representing the bulk of recent funding across basic research, applied research, workforce development, and infrastructure modernization.
Activity has grown modestly over five years—173 awards in 2023 to a peak of 250 in 2024, declining to 131 in 2026—suggesting consolidation toward larger grants rather than expansion in award count. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months totals 217 awards worth $37.9 million, representing substantial renewal demand across the grant portfolio.
SCI-reported federal service contract revenue totals $8.9 million across FY2022–FY2025, declining sharply from $5.4 million in FY2023 to $13 thousand in FY2025; FTE trajectory shows similar compression (37.6 FTEs in FY2023 to 1,523 in FY2025, reflecting likely data anomalies). Median government-paid hourly rates on prime service contracts run $109.13/hr, with rates spanning $40.15/hr (10th percentile) to $163.24/hr (90th percentile), positioning FSU in the mid-to-upper-tier academic research pricing band. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for approximately 13% of total contractor hours on average, with 14 named subcontractors identified; FSU operates primarily as a direct performer, leveraging subs for specialized technical components and complementary expertise.
Named subsidiary includes The Florida State University Research Foundation, Incorporated, a state government foundation supporting research administration and intellectual property management. Federal award data show FSU receiving grants through multiple institutional divisions—the Sponsored Research Administration Division (primary recipient entity), the College of Medicine, the College of Nursing, the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, and disciplinary departments across physical sciences, biological sciences, earth and ocean sciences, and engineering—reflecting a large, diversified research enterprise. Teaming relationships show FSU in collaborative roles on multi-institutional grants with peer universities (University of Florida, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Brown, Scripps, UCLA, University of Chicago) and national laboratories, with sub-awards to FSU researchers and collaborative arrangements where FSU contributes specialized capabilities (cryo-electron microscopy, high magnetic field testing, advanced computational modeling) to larger consortium efforts. FSU's research footprint aligns with Carnegie Foundation doctoral research designation, encompassing federally funded discovery across fundamental science, translational research, applied engineering, and health sciences with emphasis on graduate and postdoctoral training integration.
Quick answers
Is Florida State University registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Florida State University's SAM.gov registration is active through September 17, 2027.
Which contract vehicles does Florida State University hold?
Florida State University holds a place on 1 federal contract vehicle: SHIELD.
How much has Florida State University received in federal contracts?
Federal contracts obligated $8,265,818 to Florida State University in fiscal year 2025 and $44,196,518 in fiscal years 2023 through 2027.
How does Florida State University rank among federal contractors?
Florida State University ranked #16 in NAICS 335311, #23 in PSC 1905 and #40 in NAICS 3353 in FY2025.
What is Florida State University's most recent federal award?
Florida State University's most recent federal grant award is Trustworthy model adaptation for manufacturing process certification under corrupted data via knowledge-guided… (2627490), from Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, on January 1, 2027.
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