Pima County Community College District

Pima County Community College District, operating as Pima C.C. Downtown Campus, is a minority-serving, Hispanic-serving institution (a child entity of the parent Pima County Community College District) that acts as a prime recipient of federal grants and as a prime contractor for college-level vocational education and workforce development services delivered to federal agencies. The institution does not pursue federal contracts through set-asides and operates as a state-controlled, not-for-profit educational organization based in Tucson, Arizona.

Pima C.C. Downtown Campus delivers three core capability lines grounded in recent federal awards. First, the institution provides college-level inmate education and vocational training through a single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Federal Correctional Complex Tucson (Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons), valued at $226,980 through September 2026. Under this vehicle, Pima has issued five task orders funding approximately 163 to 300 individual business management, entrepreneurship, accounting, and computer skills sessions at $112 to $118 per session. Recent delivery orders include a $34,869 order (October 2025, 300 sessions) and a $36,915 order (January 2025, approximately 200+ sessions) covering June through December instruction. Second, the institution holds three federal grants from the Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education for institutional reform and student support programs, including a $1,232,000 award through May 2026 supporting the Downtown Campus Business, Computer, and Technical (BCT) Program for incarcerated populations, and a $1,000,000 award (concluded August 2024) for postsecondary instruction quality improvement. Third, Pima received a $131,043 Project Grant (CFDA 20.235) from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (awarded August 2024, due September 2026) to recruit and enroll underserved students in the college's Commercial Driver's License program.

Customer concentration is lopsided by agency but balanced across funding vehicles. The Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education leads by award count (11 awards), while the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Complex Tucson dominates combined potential value ($361,000 across 6 awards—100% of explicit contract ceiling values in the portfolio). The Small Business Administration Office of Entrepreneurial Development, the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration, and the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region round out the customer set with three, one, and one awards respectively. The disparity between award counts and dollar volume reflects Pima's mix of small per-session contract deliveries (Bureau of Prisons) and larger grant vehicles (Education).

Pima also acts as a sub-recipient on three federal grant sub-awards flowing from the Maricopa County Community College District under the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network Cooperative Agreement program, including a 2024 sub-award originally valued at $262,713 (adjusted to $242,356 in May 2025) and a 2025 sub-award.

Recent activity shows modest annual volume (three awards in both 2024 and 2025) with a single award (combined potential value $35,000) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, reducing near-term recompete exposure. The institution's federal footprint centers on Tucson-based programming for incarcerated populations and workforce development, with no indicated pursuit of commercial federal contracts or multi-agency vehicles.