Pima County Community College District

Pima County Community College District, operating as Pima Community College, is a state-controlled, minority-serving and Hispanic-serving institution of higher learning based in Tucson, Arizona, that delivers specialized federal workforce training and educational services as a prime contractor (79% of recent awards) and grant recipient, competing without set-aside designations in full-and-open federal procurement. The college holds a $3.5 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Department of the Air Force's Air Education and Training Command running through July 2029 for National Registry Paramedic certification and recertification training, and acts as a prime federal grant recipient for workforce development, online education investment, and upward bound programming.

Customer concentration centers on the Department of the Air Force across two distinct buying patterns. The Air Force Headquarters District Washington office anchors 63% of combined potential value across its 14 awards ($11 million), while the Air Force Air Education and Training Command places 19 awards ($1.2 million combined potential value) for paramedic training. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Complex Tucson generates the highest award count at 33 orders but carries lower per-order value ($1.3 million combined). The Department of Education Office of Career Technical and Adult Education, the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development complete the active customer roster. These five agencies account for 52% of recent awards by count and 63% by potential value. The college's vehicle footprint consists primarily of five delivery-order vehicles: IDC J61503C161 (27 task orders, $6.6 million combined value), IDC FA805219D0001 (18 task orders, $2.5 million), and three additional IDCs with smaller order volumes.

Concrete recent work includes a $514,500 purchase order from the Air Force (February 2026, performance through February 2027) for National Registry Paramedic certification courses for up to 50 Air Force students in Tucson; a $262,500 delivery order (May 2025, due September 2025) for NRP certification courses under the parent $3.5 million Air Force IDC; and a $262,500 delivery order (January 2025, due May 2025) for NRP certification in Tucson. The college also functions as a sub-recipient on federal education and social-services grants: it receives multiple sub-awards from the Arizona Department of Education for adult education and career-technical education programs, sub-awards from the Arizona Department of Economic Security for refugee cash and medical assistance program administration, and a HUD Economic Development Initiative grant (August 2024, completion through August 2032) for community project funding. As a grant recipient, Pima holds prime awards including a StrivOnline grant (October 2023–September 2025) from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education to support online students, and a Desert Vista Upward Bound Math and Science grant (September 2022–August 2025) from the same office.

Activity has grown from eight awards in 2022 to 19 in 2024, with 13 awards in 2025 and one recent 2026 award. The college faces minimal recompete exposure—only one award ($515 thousand combined potential value) completes within the next twenty-four months. Prime contract work concentrates on paramedic and emergency medical services training delivered under the Air Force IDC and smaller orders from the Bureau of Prisons. Grant work spans workforce development, adult basic education, refugee services administration, child care fund administration, and health equity programming, positioning the college as a regional community college anchor for federal workforce and human-services training delivery.