Kansas City University

Kansas City University, a private non-profit educational institution based in Kansas City, Missouri, provides osteopathic medical education and health professions training to the Department of the Navy and receives federal research grants from the National Institutes of Health and related agencies. KCU operates as a prime recipient on 91 of its 93 recent federal awards (98%), competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

KCU's federal business is dominated by tuition and fees contracts for Navy medical officer training. The Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery accounts for 45 awards (78% of the top five customer agencies by count) valued at $13.8 million combined potential value, funding osteopathic medical education at KCU's College of Osteopathic Medicine. Representative Navy tuition awards include a $690,018 delivery order for academic year 2025-2026 (issued July 31, 2025), a $707,628 delivery order for academic year 2023-2024 (issued July 3, 2023), and a $1.009 million delivery order for the 2022-2023 academic year (issued July 1, 2022). All Navy tuition delivery orders are issued under firm fixed price terms with no set-aside designation. KCU also holds a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA N0018925GZ082) with the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2035, under which 50 task orders totaling $14.4 million in combined potential value have been placed since the BOA's award.

KCU's grant portfolio spans biomedical research and health professions education across multiple NIH institutes and the Health Resources and Services Administration. Recent grant recipients include the National Cancer Institute (a February 2024 project grant investigating pregnane X receptor in breast cancer, ultimate completion January 31, 2027), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (a $408,599 project grant under CFDA 93.837 for cardiovascular disease research, awarded September 1, 2023, through August 31, 2026), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (a project grant for infant emotion detection research awarded August 30, 2022, through July 31, 2026), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (congressionally directed spending grants totaling $8 million for the Center for Population Health and Equity, awarded September 30, 2023, with completion September 29, 2026, and $2.999 million for health workforce interprofessional education, awarded August 1, 2022, with completion July 31, 2024). KCU also acts as a sub-recipient on limited grant work: a sub-award from Boston University's project with the VA (awarded October 9, 2024) and a sub-award from the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute for ALS biomarker validation (awarded June 13, 2023).

Award activity has declined from six awards in 2022 and eight in 2023 to two in each of 2025 and 2026 to date. Three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure. KCU's $15.3 million combined potential value across its recent federal footprint significantly understates real dollars obligated — the portfolio shows $75.1 million in combined obligations, reflecting multi-year grant cycles and recurring Navy tuition orders against the standing BOA.