Merrimack College
North Andover, MA
- UEI
- QHNZEGD6NWL5
- CAGE
- 3BKM9
- Primary NAICS
- 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
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Company facts
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Tax Exempt)
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 315 Turnpike St, North Andover, MA 01845, USA
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Contract awards
Grant awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Grant subawards
| Prime recipient | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation | R01AG079525 | $46,229 | |
| University Of Massachusetts Medical School | T1Q47319 | $119,991 | |
| The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation | R01AG084180 | $37,839 | |
| Massachusetts Department Of Elementary & Secondary Education | S425U210025 | $49,385 | |
| Emergency Management Agency Massachusetts | 4496DRMAP00000001 | $4,729,381 |
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About the company
Merrimack College, a tax-exempt private university in North Andover, Massachusetts, operates as a federal grant recipient (75% of recent awards) and occasional subcontractor, conducting academic research and training funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Geological Survey. The college does not hold federal contracts or contract IDVs; its federal footprint is overwhelmingly grant-based, with no set-aside categories applicable to its nonprofit institutional structure.
Merrimack's customer concentration reflects a spread across research and public-health grantor agencies. The top five funding bodies account for 43% of recent awards: the U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants (6 awards), the National Institute on Aging (5 awards), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (3 awards), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (3 awards), and the National Science Foundation (2 awards). By potential value, the two rankings diverge slightly—the Department of the Army Materiel Command Sustainment Command carries $99 thousand across 2 awards, but USGS, NIH institutes, and FEMA collectively anchor the award volume. Research domains span biomedical sciences, geosciences, and public health interventions.
Recent prime grants illustrate the breadth: a $533,591 National Science Foundation award for molecular regulation of septin-mediated plant invasion by blast fungus (October 2025, completion June 2027); a $172,158 National Institute on Drug Abuse K01 career development grant for exercise intervention design in smoking cessation among people with HIV (September 2026, completion August 2031); a $413,811 National Institute of Mental Health grant for behavioral and neural correlates of adaptive risk-taking in preschoolers (April 2025, completion April 2028); and a $403,937 NIMH award examining mid-day napping for emotion regulation in mild traumatic brain injury patients (January 2025, completion December 2027). The college also holds collaborative grants with Tufts University and other universities on ground-motion modeling and seismic hazard assessment (USGS, 2023–2026).
Activity has grown modestly: 3 awards in 2022 to 9 in 2025, with 7 awards reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. As a subcontractor, Merrimack provides specialized analytical support—confocal microscopy expertise on immune-cell and organoid research to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation (multiple awards, 2023–2025), data-analysis and clinical-trial coordination work to Brigham and Women's Hospital under NIH Mental Health Research Grants, and nursing-faculty recruitment and training support to the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The college also received pandemic-response sub-awards from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Emergency Management Agency Massachusetts (2023–2024). Across both prime and sub roles, Merrimack's federal research portfolio centers on health behavior intervention design, biomedical cell biology, geoscience modeling, and workforce development, with administrative performance at the North Andover campus.
Quick answers
Is Merrimack College registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Merrimack College's SAM.gov registration is active through August 31, 2027.
What is Merrimack College's most recent federal award?
Merrimack College's most recent federal grant award is Development and evaluation of an exercise intervention to support smokingcessation among people with HIV using the… (K01DA065495), from National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH), on September 1, 2026.
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