New Mexico State University

New Mexico State University's Research Administration Services division, doing business as NM State Esports, operates as a federal research and educational institution, primarily as a prime recipient of federal grants and contracts (95% of awards) spanning research, STEM education, extension services, and animal health diagnostics. The entity is a child division of New Mexico State University, a public, Hispanic-serving 1862 Land Grant College headquartered in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

NMSU Research Administration delivers a broad portfolio of federally funded services across multiple domains. Concrete capability work centers on agricultural research and extension (crop genetics, livestock health, rangeland management), animal laboratory diagnostics including Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) testing, space exploration and planetary science research, STEM education and workforce development, water resource management, and environmental conservation. Recent representative awards include a $20 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Veterinary Services for animal laboratory testing services issued December 1, 2021 through November 2026, under which NMSU has executed multiple $50,000 delivery orders for HPAI diagnostic testing; a $3.41 million NASA cooperative agreement (March 2025 through March 2029) for STEM engagement and workforce development; a $1.396 million NSF award (March 2026 through February 2028) for regional research storage and cyberinfrastructure; and a $3.2 million Hatch Act formula grant (October 2025 through September 2027) supporting fundamental and applied agricultural research.

Customer concentration clusters heavily around agricultural and space research sponsors. The top five funding agencies account for 40% of awards: the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (247 awards), the National Science Foundation (238 awards), NASA's Shared Services Center (203 awards, $60.5 million combined potential value), USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (139 awards), and the Department of Agriculture (89 awards). NMSU's broader federal footprint encompasses 183 distinct customer agencies and 2,262 total awards (prime and sub combined) with $144.7 million in combined potential value and $1.59 billion in combined obligated dollars across the source data span.

Activity has remained steady year over year—113 awards in 2022, 131 in 2023, and 173 in 2024—with 164 awards (combined potential value $17.4 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure. NMSU operates predominantly as a prime (95% of awards), with subcontractor engagement limited to 5% of total awards. In its subcontractor capacity, NMSU performs agricultural research, species monitoring, and disaster ecology work under prime awardees including the University of New Mexico and Texas A&M AgriLife. The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures minimal federal service-contract activity above the $150,000 threshold—$0 in invoiced revenue as a prime contractor across FY2022–FY2024, with 2.6 FTEs reported in FY2024 across prime and sub work.

NMSU Research Administration holds a single-award IDIQ with USDA APHIS (the primary parent vehicle in the source data) and operates under various federal grant mechanisms (cooperative agreements, project grants, formula grants under Smith-Lever, Hatch Act, and NIFA programs). Federal grant work dominates the award portfolio: the entity acts as prime recipient on cooperative agreements and project grants across NSF, NASA, USDA, the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and civilian research agencies. As a comprehensive research institution and Hispanic-serving land grant with established capacity in agricultural science, animal health diagnostics, planetary science, and STEM education, NMSU Research Administration competes full-and-open and serves as a stable, long-term federal partner across multiple agencies and research disciplines, with no recurrence of set-aside designations in the source awards.