Marshall B. Ketchum University

Marshall B. Ketchum University, a private non-profit educational institution located in Fullerton, California, delivers tuition and fee-based graduate healthcare education to uniformed Navy medical professionals as a prime contractor under firm fixed-price delivery orders, with 89% of recent awards in a prime capacity and no set-aside designations across the footprint.

The university's federal work centers narrowly on graduate professional healthcare education in optometry, physician assistant studies, and pharmacy delivered to Navy personnel. The Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery is the dominant customer, representing 23 awards and $895 thousand in combined potential value—nearly all of the university's federal contract revenue. Recent prime contract delivery orders include a $13,895 order from the Navy for summer term tuition (May–August 2026), an $18,386 order for spring term tuition (January–May 2025), and a $19,586 order for winter term tuition (November 2024–February 2025), all placed under the university's Basic Ordering Agreement N0018925GZ017 with the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. The underlying BOA, awarded March 1, 2025, runs through February 28, 2035 with no specified ceiling value and provides the contracting framework for tuition delivery orders supporting Navy medical professionals' advanced training.

The university also holds an Indefinite Delivery Contract (N0018907GZ001) with the Navy, against which 20 task orders have been placed for $895 thousand combined potential value, representing the bulk of Navy tuition and fees work. The second BOA (N0018925GZ017) carries six tuition-related task orders for $110 thousand combined potential value. Beyond the Navy, the university receives smaller grant sub-awards from research-focused prime recipients including Drexel University, The Ohio State University, the University of Illinois, UCLA, and the Schepens Eye Research Institute. These sub-awards support investigator roles and clinical site coordination in National Institutes of Health-funded research on vision disorders following mild traumatic brain injury, telerehabilitation for low vision patients, and veterinary parasitology studies. The university's most recent federal grant sub-award (February 2026) from Drexel involved directing a pilot clinical trial on vergence/accommodative therapy for mild traumatic brain injury-related convergence insufficiency.

Activity remains sparse but recurring—eight awards in 2025 and four in 2026 year to date—with only one award facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months ($14 thousand potential value). The university's federal footprint is institutional and non-competitive; all Navy tuition awards carry firm fixed-price structures under established BOAs and IDCs rather than open competition, reflecting the Navy's use of the institution as a designated training provider for its medical personnel. The top NAICS code is Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (42 awards), and the predominant PSC is Education/Training—Tuition/Registration/Membership Fees (35 awards).