Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
- UEI
- R28EKN92ZTZ9
- CAGE
- 4B834
- Primary NAICS
- 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- SAM.gov registration
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Company facts
- FY2025 rankings
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- U.S. Government Entity
- Other NAICS codes in SAM.gov
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- 531120 Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings (except Miniwarehouses)
- 541330 Engineering Services
- 541380 Testing Laboratories and Services
- 541512 Computer Systems Design Services
- 541611 Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- 541620 Environmental Consulting Services
- 541690 Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- 541713 Research and Development in Nanotechnology
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- 541714 Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)
- 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- 541940 Veterinary Services
- 541990 All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- 611430 Professional and Management Development Training
- 712110 Museums
- 721110 Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels
- 923120 Administration of Public Health Programs
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Michigan State University
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- Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI NH77YPDEGG84
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Michigan State University
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- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 426 Auditorium Rd #360, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
- Website
- msu.edu
- Founded
- 1855
- 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 | $2,906,158 |
| FY2025 | $8,103,653 |
| FY2024 | $8,858,573 |
| FY2023 | $9,072,752 |
Top agencies by obligations
| Rank | Agency | Obligated, FY2026–FY2027 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $979,975 | |
| 2 | Department of Agriculture | $463,279 | |
| 3 | Department of the Navy | $405,957 | |
| 4 | Department of the Army | $350,000 | |
| 5 | Department of Health and Human Services | $285,000 | |
| 6 | Department of the Interior | $195,323 | |
| 7 | National Science Foundation | $121,249 | |
| 8 | Environmental Protection Agency | $78,183 | |
| 9 | Peace Corps | $13,714 | |
| 10 | Missile Defense Agency | $13,478 |
Contract vehicles
No active vehicles.
1 expired vehicle
Contract awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Contract subawards
| Prime contractor | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Of Alaska Fairbanks | HQ003418D0027 | $911,693 | |
| The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. | N0003024C6001 | $121,688 | |
| University Of Alaska Fairbanks | HQ003424F0038 | $600,475 | |
| The Geneva Foundation | HT942524C0111 | $125,000 | |
| Not on record | W912HQ25P0006 | $50,055 |
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Grant awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Grant subawards
| Prime recipient | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Geneva Foundation | HU0001262E054 | $248,488 | |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | R01HL172293 | $391,445 | |
| Regents Of The University Of Michigan | R01CA316043 | $122,975 | |
| New York University | R01HD096909 | $498,770 | |
| Regents Of The University Of Michigan | R01DC023753 | $179,126 |
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
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About the company
Michigan State University, a public 1862 land-grant research institution based in East Lansing, Michigan, operates as a prime recipient and performer on federal research grants and contracts across fundamental science, applied research, veterinary and animal health diagnostics, and educational programming. The university competes full-and-open across civilian and defense agencies with no set-aside posture, delivering research services and specialized laboratory testing as prime performer in 89% of recent awards.
Michigan State's customer base spans 322 distinct federal agencies, with concentration in research funding. The National Science Foundation leads by award count (1,270 awards, though carrying modest potential value at $417 thousand combined), while the Department of Health and Human Services National Institute of Child Health and Human Development anchors the top tier by dollar value (82 awards, $40.3 million combined potential value). NASA Shared Services Center places 251 awards worth $38.1 million combined potential value, and the Department of Agriculture's animal health and food research programs—NIFA and APHIS Veterinary Services—drive significant activity: 617 NIFA awards and 66 APHIS Veterinary Services awards valued at $23.7 million combined. The top five funding entities account for 37% of award count and 42% of combined potential value, reflecting diversified federal relationships characteristic of a large research university rather than concentration in a single customer.
Activity has declined sharply in recent periods: 521 awards in 2023, 599 in 2024, 381 in 2025, and only 207 in 2026, suggesting a transition year or reporting lag. Over 7,500 total awards are tracked in the source, with $8.09 billion in combined obligated dollars—a figure substantially exceeding the $248 million combined potential value, indicating that older awards (including baseline funding for long-running programs and large multi-year grants) dominate the obligated-dollars measure. Within the next 24 months, 492 awards face completion, carrying $7.8 million in combined potential value and representing significant recompete exposure across NSF, NIH, USDA, and NASA program portfolios.
Michigan State's capability footprint spans agricultural sciences, veterinary diagnostics and animal health, materials science, advanced physics research including rare isotope science via the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, quantum systems, computational biology, and STEM education. Recent representative work includes a $2.94 million USDA AFRI grant for agricultural watershed water quality and nutrient movement modeling; a $1.689 million NSF Biological Sciences award to map plant transcription start sites using machine learning; a $1.5 million NSF Cooperative Agreement for nuclear astrophysics at FRIB; and a $980 thousand USDA AFRI grant investigating antimicrobial resistance mitigation in biosolids processing. The university holds significant delivery on veterinary diagnostic testing: recent USDA Veterinary Services delivery orders include $242 thousand for highly pathogenic avian influenza testing through the National Animal Health Laboratory Network, $126.2 thousand for emergent screwworm analysis, and historical work including $600 thousand in HPAI testing, $30 thousand in scrapie testing, and $3.825 thousand in antimicrobial resistance testing, positioning MSU as a regional leader in federal animal health diagnostics.
Michigan State operates minimal SCI-reportable service contract activity in the source data: only $553 thousand invoiced across FY2022, with essentially zero SCI revenue in FY2023–FY2025, and average government-paid rates around $108/hr for the limited SCI-captured labor. This reflects that the university's federal footprint is dominated by research grants and specialized testing delivery orders rather than staffing-intensive service contracts above the SCI reporting threshold. The SCI dataset shows 2.8 FTEs in FY2022 declining to 0.3 FTEs in FY2025, and zero sub-hours share, indicating MSU builds internal delivery teams and does not engage subcontractors on the small subset of work captured in SCI.
As a subcontractor, Michigan State delivers specialized research support to prime research institutions: recent examples include contribution of software infrastructure development and computing resources to the IceCube Upgrade detector collaboration (University of Wisconsin System prime), fabrication and testing of muon drift tubes for the ATLAS HL-LHC Upgrade detector (Columbia University prime), and technical support for geophysical detection of nuclear proliferation research (University of Alaska Fairbanks and Draper Laboratory primes). The university also serves as sub-recipient on collaborative NSF and NIH research grants, typically in leadership roles on co-investigator research objectives rather than as a service subcontractor.
Michigan State's parent corporate entity is listed as Michigan State University (Non-Profit Organization, 1862 Land Grant College, Educational Institution). The source identifies a named subsidiary also styled as Michigan State University but carrying additional designations including School of Forestry, Veterinary College, and State Controlled Institution of Higher Learning. These are operational units rather than separate legal entities and do not constitute a corporate structure distinct from the parent. The university operates no identified GWAC, BPA, or government-wide IDV positions as a prime holder; instead, it competes task orders and delivery orders under agency-specific vehicles such as the USDA APHIS Animal Lab Testing blanket purchase agreement (39 task orders, $1.1 million combined value), a Navy Basic Ordering Agreement (25 task orders, $3.9 million combined value), and USDA agricultural research blanket purchase agreements.
Quick answers
Is Michigan State University registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Michigan State University's SAM.gov registration is active through November 14, 2026.
Which contract vehicles does Michigan State University hold?
Michigan State University holds a place on 1 federal contract vehicle: APHIS Animal Lab Testing 2016-2021.
How much has Michigan State University received in federal contracts?
Federal contracts obligated $8,103,653 to Michigan State University in fiscal year 2025 and $28,941,136 in fiscal years 2023 through 2027.
How does Michigan State University rank among federal contractors?
Michigan State University ranked #10 at the National Endowment for the Humanities, #16 in NAICS 54194 and #18 in PSC R416 in FY2025.
What is Michigan State University's most recent federal award?
Michigan State University's most recent federal grant award is Collaborative research: seismic experiment for eastern aleutian subduction tremor and earthquake research (2618357), from Division of Ocean Sciences, on January 1, 2027.
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