Pacific University

Pacific University, a private non-profit educational institution and minority-serving institution based in Forest Grove, Oregon, serves the federal government primarily as a grant recipient (94% of recent awards) and contract prime, delivering tuition and fee services for military personnel, teacher preparation and STEM education research, and institutional grants for academic programming and student support. The university has no federal contract vehicle seats; its contract footprint consists entirely of delivery orders under Department of the Navy Basic Ordering Agreements established in 2020.

The university's federal work divides sharply between two streams. The Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery dominates by volume: 87 delivery orders (71% of all awards) totaling $2.7 million in combined potential value for tuition and fees supporting medical training programs for Navy personnel and families. These awards flow through Indefinite Delivery Contract N0060085G1840 (80 task orders, $2.5 million combined potential value) and Basic Ordering Agreement N0018920GZ012 (19 task orders, $389 thousand combined potential value), with individual delivery orders ranging from roughly $11,600 to $59,000 and firm fixed-price structures. The remaining contract activity includes 14 additional delivery orders from the broader Department of the Navy for similar tuition and fee services ($158 thousand combined potential value). Federal grant work, by contrast, emphasizes research, teacher preparation, and institutional development. Pacific University has received project grants from the National Science Foundation (10 awards) including a $1.75 million Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Track 2 award (October 2025–September 2031) for preparing science teachers for high-need districts in the Pacific Northwest, and a $999,370 five-year grant for studying career trajectories and retention of STEM teachers in Oregon. The Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education has funded eight grants, including a $923,332 award for inclusive digital learning infrastructure and IT modernization (January 2023–December 2025) and a $272,364 TRIO Student Support Services grant (September 2025–September 2026). The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development provided a $1.1 million grant (September 2023–May 2028) for implementing SafeCare Kenya, a parenting skills intervention research program in partnership with Georgia State University and the Africa Mental Health Research and Training Foundation. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Health Resources and Services Administration complete the grant customer set.

Customer concentration is extreme and Navy-driven: the Department of the Navy (combined Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and Navy offices) accounts for 101 awards (57% of total federal activity) and represents 100% of contract dollars. The remaining 74 awards span 25 agencies, the majority routed through grant programs. Activity has remained flat year-over-year—nine awards in both 2024 and 2025—with only five awards facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure. The university serves as sub-recipient on roughly ten federal grant awards, including work with the University of Oregon on Western Regional Noyce Network initiatives (STEM teacher development), Oregon Health & Science University on workforce development programs (geriatrics, HIV/AIDS dental partnerships, IRACDA research training), and Oregon Health Authority on scholarship and health equity programming.

The university's primary NAICS designation is Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (99 awards), with PSC coding dominated by Education/Training—Tuition/Registration/Membership Fees (114 awards), reflecting the Navy tuition stream. Beyond its Navy partnership, Pacific University competes full-and-open across civilian agency grant programs in STEM education, teacher preparation, and health-related research without set-aside positioning. The combined obligated dollars ($50.6 million) significantly exceed combined potential value ($2.9 million), indicating a mature, multi-year grant portfolio with substantial invoiced revenue relative to the current award ceiling snapshot.