Ouachita Baptist University

Ouachita Baptist University, a private non-profit educational institution based in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, operates as a federal grant recipient and occasional contract performer, delivering environmental monitoring, undergraduate research support, and behavioral health workforce education services to civilian agencies. The university competes full-and-open and does not hold SBA set-aside designations.

The university's federal footprint splits sharply between two distinct activities. Its prime contract work centers on specialized environmental field research — a $4,028 purchase order from the U.S. Forest Service (Region 8) awarded May 20, 2026 for a bird-points survey on the Mean-Oden Ranger District of the Ouachita National Forest, and a $15,000 definitive contract from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (awarded August 8, 2023) for water quality monitoring in Crossett, Arkansas. Its grant work encompasses institutional student-support programs and sponsored research. Representative prime grants include a behavioral health workforce education and training program (Project Grant, Bureau of Health Professionals, award July 1, 2025, completion June 30, 2029); a research collaborative network on cell-biology education and undergraduate publication pathways (Project Grant, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education, July 2023 through June 2028); a development project on degradable hemostatic wound-healing fibers (Project Grant, NIH, September 2022 through July 2026); and two long-running TRIO programs — Upward Bound and Educational Talent Search (both Office of Postsecondary Education, both awarded September 2021/2022, running through August 2026). The university also subrecipient on at least three related grants under the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' Partnerships for Biomedical Research in Arkansas awards (sub-awards December 2025, September 2025, September 2025).

Customer concentration in the recent snapshot is heavily skewed to the Department of the Army and the Army Corps of Engineers, which account for 78% of the award count (36 and 18 awards respectively), though these are dominated by small legacy TRIO and research-support awards spanning decades. The recent potential-value ranking diverges significantly: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service lead in current dollars (the two contract awards noted above, totaling $37 thousand in combined potential value), while the top-count customers (Army, Corps of Engineers) reflect historical TRIO and education-support volume. Four awards (combined potential value $4 thousand) complete within the next twenty-four months and face recompete. The university maintains task-order positions on Army Corps of Engineers indefinite-delivery contracts (DACW3884C0135, seven orders; DACW3881C0171, five orders; and three others with two orders each) and a Basic Ordering Agreement (DAKF1978H0028, seventeen orders). The portfolio spans eighteen distinct federal customer agencies. No subcontractor footprint is evident in the source.