Loma Linda University

Loma Linda University, doing business as LLU, is a private, non-profit academic health science institution based in Loma Linda, California, that operates as a prime recipient for federal contracts and grants covering healthcare professional education, medical research, and specialized medical services for federal agencies. The institution competes on a full-and-open basis across civilian and defense agencies, with no SBA set-aside designations.

LLU's federal footprint is dominated by tuition and fees contracts with the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BOMES), which account for 276 awards and $17.6 million in combined potential value—the single largest customer relationship. The institution also holds substantial indefinite delivery contracts with the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 22, anchoring the top-customer ranking at $306 million combined potential value across 28 awards. The National Institutes of Health (61 awards), Health Resources and Services Administration (42 awards), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (22 awards, $17 million combined potential value) round out the top five customer agencies. These top five agencies together represent 95% of the institution's combined potential value, indicating high customer concentration in healthcare and research funding streams.

LLU's prime contract and grant portfolio splits 96% prime awards and 4% sub-awards. The most significant parent vehicle is an indefinite delivery contract with the Navy (N0014098G2469), supporting 296 task orders worth $20.8 million combined potential value, predominantly tuition and fees delivery orders. A Basic Ordering Agreement with the VA (F3360076A0270) carries $86.2 million across six task orders for community-based outpatient clinic services and laboratory testing—work that reflects LLU's operational healthcare delivery capability beyond education. A basic ordering agreement with the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (N0060085G1736) supports 32 additional task orders. All three vehicles carry firm fixed-price delivery orders with no set-asides, consistent with LLU's competitive posture.

Recent grant work centers on biomedical and health professions training. LLU is recipient of a $1.5 million HRSA Rural Health Research Centers grant (CFDA 93.155) for psychiatry residency rural track development in Big Bear Valley and Barstow, California, with resident matriculation targeted for July 2028. The institution also received a $749,670 Federal Office of Rural Health Policy Rural Health Care Services Outreach grant (CFDA 93.912) awarded August 1, 2025, establishing pharmacy-based HIV prevention and harm reduction services in the Inland Empire. NIH project grants include a $776,881 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute award for research on cerebral blood flow autoregulation in newborns exposed to chronic hypoxia (CFDA 93.837), a $251,687 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke grant examining ferroptosis in Niemann-Pick Disease Type C (CFDA 93.853), and a $358,823 National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research award for structural-functional studies of gingipain biogenesis in periodontitis (CFDA 93.121). LLU also received a $6.6 million National Telecommunications and Information Administration Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program grant (CFDA 11.028) for healthcare education access expansion and technology infrastructure.

Activity has remained stable at 14–21 awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026), with 8 awards recorded through June 2026. The institution completed 728 total awards (prime and sub combined) dating to 1965, with combined obligated dollars of $680.3 million exceeding the combined potential value of $362.4 million by 188%, indicating invoiced performance on standing vehicles. Only 23 awards face completion in the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $176 thousand, limiting near-term recompete exposure.

LLU operates as a sub-recipient on federal grants from prime grantees including the Henry M. Jackson Foundation (Specific Aim 4 on stressor-exposure physiological markers), University of California at Riverside (steerable laser interstitial thermotherapy robot research), Yale University (quality-of-life research among conflict-related injury patients), New York University (oral cancer pain and opioid receptor mechanisms), and University of Southern California (damage-free ultrasonic cell isolation, diabetic corneal research, and pericyte blood-brain function studies). On the contract side, LLU subcontracts to KBR Wyle Services on the Human Health and Performance Contract 2 (HHPC2) for consultant services. The parent structure lists Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center as the parent entity, a tax-exempt corporate organization. LLU's category concentration shows tuition and fees (357 awards) and education/training fee-based work dominating the prime award portfolio, with medical research and specialized medical services forming secondary capability streams.