Regents Of University Of Minnesota

Regents Of University Of Minnesota, operating as Non-Sponsored Accounts Receivable, is a state government entity and 1862 land-grant college that holds federal contracts and grants as a prime recipient and subcontractor, delivering specialized research services, laboratory testing, facility maintenance, and scientific equipment to civilian federal agencies without competing under small-business set-asides. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the university operates across multiple research and analytical service categories and does not compete under 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other SBA designations.

The university's federal contracting footprint centers on laboratory and analytical services. Recent prime contracts include a $666,913.56 sole-source purchase order from the Department of Veterans Affairs (Veterans Integrated Service Network 23) for standardized patient simulators and medical training equipment at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System (May 2023, running through April 2028); DNA methylation testing ($92,935.32) from the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development (January 2023); genomic DNA and RNA sequencing services across multiple USDA Agricultural Research Service regional areas, ranging from $8,440.49 to $19,623.20 per order; CHN filter procurement ($16,271.50) from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for water quality analysis (September 2026, completing March 2028); and facility support work including lawn care and snow removal ($56,000), diagnostic support ($15,000), and oak wilt rapid response treatment ($7,000) from the USDA Forest Service State and Private Forestry Program. On the grant side, the university received a $225,000 Project Grant from the USDA Institute of Food Production and Sustainability under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) in September 2025 to examine Starship transposable elements in Fusarium fungi causing Fusarium Head Blight in wheat and barley, with completion scheduled for September 2027.

Customer concentration is dispersed across forty distinct federal agencies, with the top five agencies by potential-value share accounting for 79% of combined potential value. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 23 anchors the portfolio at $1.5 million across ten awards—primarily the medical simulator contract—while the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development contributes $457 thousand across eight awards. The USDA Forest Service Research Service Northern Research Station places thirteen awards totaling $194 thousand, primarily small facility and maintenance contracts. The portfolio includes two active parent vehicles: Blanket Purchase Agreement EPBPA13D0008 (EPA, two task orders, $143 thousand combined potential value) and Indefinite Delivery Contract 75N92021D00005 (two task orders, agency not named in source). The university competes full-and-open across its prime contracts and does not concentrate awards on any single vehicle.

The university operates predominantly as a prime contractor (106 of 117 awards, or 91%) and does not rely on subcontractors for prime delivery—SCI-reported records show zero subcontractor hours on prime contracts. The university holds subcontractor positions on contracts with Wake Forest University Health Sciences and Life Technologies Corporation for Women's Health Initiative Clinical Coordinating Center work (multiple modifications through 2024), and serves as a sub-recipient on federal grants administered by the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (Atherosclerosis Risk in the Communities data analysis and sarcoidosis progression research), National Jewish Health, HealthPartners Institute (Respiratory Syncytial Virus vaccine safety and tobacco control policy simulation studies), and the Center for Veterans Research & Education (RAMP Phase 2 research). The top NAICS categories across the award portfolio are Testing Laboratories and Services (25 awards), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (16 awards), and Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (14 awards combined across variants).

Activity has remained steady in recent years—five awards in 2022, eight in 2023, ten in 2024, declining to four in 2025 and three year-to-date in 2026. Six awards with combined potential value of $717 thousand reach completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete. SCI-reported invoicing across service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $20 thousand in FY2024 and $39 thousand in FY2025; SCI is a partial view of the university's federal services activity and excludes goods, products, micro-purchases, and non-federal revenue. The university delivers laboratory sequencing, environmental testing, genomic analysis, and clinical research support as its core federal capability set, with work performed at Minneapolis campus locations and subordinate field offices across Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, and Arkansas.