Nova Southeastern University, Inc.

Nova Southeastern University, Inc., a private non-profit minority-serving and Hispanic-serving institution headquartered in Davie, Florida, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants and a prime contractor on education and training delivery, with no subcontractor footprint across the federal market. The university competes in full-and-open procurements without set-asides and holds a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement (N0060085G1793) with the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery that extends through June 30, 2035 and anchors the bulk of its federal contracting footprint—209 task orders valued at $22.2 million in combined potential value for tuition and educational services delivered to military medical personnel.

Nova Southeastern's federal work splits between education delivery on the contract side and research on the grant side. On contracts, the university is almost entirely dependent on Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery delivery orders for tuition and fees covering classroom instruction, with secondary work including JROTC cadet leadership camp logistics ($151,988 purchase order from Army Recruiting Command, June 2026) and coral reef reconnaissance services ($200,481 for stony coral tissue loss disease intervention work with National Park Service Southeast Region, September 2024). The university's contract portfolio is concentrated: the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery accounts for 204 awards (spanning both the primary IDC N0060085G1793 and a secondary BOA N0018925GZ093 with 15 task orders worth $2.8 million) out of 658 total awards, representing $21.4 million in combined potential value and driving 51% of the award count across all customer agencies.

On the grant side, Nova Southeastern operates as a prime recipient across the National Institutes of Health (biomedical and behavioral research), the National Science Foundation (STEM education and cognitive science), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (coral reef conservation and oceanographic research), the Department of the Interior Office of Insular Affairs (coral reef management fellowships), and the Department of Education (postsecondary innovation and STEM capacity). Recent representative grants include a $614,458 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke award (May 2026) examining mycotoxin exposure in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFDA 93.853), a $1.926 million NOAA Congressionally Identified Award (March 2025) for coral nursery facility construction and optimization, a $999,068 Department of Defense research grant (May 2025) on quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and a $802,336 Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration supplemental public-sector training grant (October 2025) for hazmat instructor development (CFDA 20.703). The university also holds a $3.841 million NOAA Congressionally Mandated grant (October 2023) to re-establish the National Coral Reef Institute, a multi-disciplinary research institute focused on coral disease prediction, reef restoration, and holobiont genomics across Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Award volume has grown modestly—26 awards in 2022 to a peak of 45 in 2024, with 31 in 2025 and 16 through mid-October 2026—but the combined potential value across all 658 awards totals $39.2 million, while combined dollars obligated reach $421.9 million (136% more than potential value), indicating substantial execution on multi-year awards. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 51% of awards; by dollar value, the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and general Navy work dominate, comprising $25 million of the $39.2 million total. A recompete cliff affecting $45 thousand in combined potential value sits within the next twenty-four months—minimal exposure, reflecting the long-term stability of the Navy BOA extending through 2035.

SCI-reported service-contract invoicing totals $3 million across FY2022–FY2025 (prime records only), with $112 thousand in FY2022 and $2.8 million in FY2023; no SCI-reportable invoicing appears in FY2024 or FY2025. The SCI dataset shows 2.7 FTEs in FY2022 and 3.0 FTEs in FY2023, declining to zero in subsequent years, indicating that the university's service-contract work captured in SCI is concentrated in earlier years and does not represent the university's broader research-grant execution. On the four SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates ran a median of $238.34/hr, with the 10th percentile at $63.45/hr and the 90th percentile at $413.23/hr, reflecting a mix of lower-cost tuition delivery and higher-cost specialized technical labor. Subcontractor hours share zero across prime records—the university builds its own delivery teams rather than subcontracting.

As a grant recipient, Nova Southeastern maintains a secondary footprint as a sub-recipient on cooperative agreements and research awards. Named prime grantees routing work to the university include the University of Miami (deep-sea ecosystem monitoring, coral reef restoration decision support, and fisheries data analysis under NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies), the University of Florida (Area Health Education Centers regional program delivery), and the University of Colorado (T-cell epitope and immunological research). The university also partners with Mote Marine Laboratory, the Florida Aquarium, and the University of North Carolina Wilmington on a NOAA-funded multi-site coral propagation research effort. Overall, Nova Southeastern competes predominantly as a prime—614 of 658 awards (93%)—and does not leverage federal contracting vehicles, GWACs, or acquisition schedules; its federal footprint is built on direct awards from civilian and defense agencies, with sustained revenue concentration in Navy medical education and diversifying research income from NIH, NSF, NOAA, and Department of Defense sources.