Rosalind Franklin University Of Medicine & Science

Rosalind Franklin University Of Medicine & Science, a private non-profit health sciences institution based in North Chicago, Illinois, operates as a prime recipient of federal research grants and a contractor providing tuition-and-fees support and animal research infrastructure services to federal agencies. The university holds no SBA set-aside designations and competes in full-and-open contracting across its portfolio.

The university's federal footprint splits sharply between two distinct capability areas. On the contracting side, Rosalind Franklin delivers tuition and fees processing for the Department of the Navy's health professions scholarship programs (supporting medical and dental students) and animal housing, care, and purchasing services to the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 for biomedical research. Recent contract work includes a $222,452 definitive fixed-price educational cost contract with VISN 12 effective April 1, 2026 for animal housing and care through March 31, 2031; multiple Navy delivery orders for tuition and fees support ranging from $17,425 to $117,462; and a single-award indefinite delivery contract with VISN 12 valued at $160,779 (February 2023 to February 2025) under which multiple delivery orders for animal care services have been issued. On the grant side, Rosalind Franklin serves as a prime recipient of substantial federal research funding, conducting peer-reviewed biomedical and health sciences research across neurology, infectious disease, oncology, aging, and mental health domains.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Navy and the VA. The Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery accounts for 82 awards with $2.9 million in combined potential value, anchoring the contract portfolio through recurring tuition delivery orders. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration VISN 12 accounts for 41 awards with $1.8 million in potential value, centered on the animal care indefinite delivery contract. The National Institutes of Health funds 67 awards across the university's research programs but dollar magnitudes are not itemized in the portfolio summary. The top five customer agencies by award count represent 61 percent of recent awards, indicating moderate customer concentration with the Navy and VA dominating transactional volume.

The university's top parent vehicles are two Navy indefinite delivery contracts: N0014098G2429 with 54 task orders and $1.1 million in combined potential value, and N0018916GZ014 with 41 task orders and $2.3 million in combined potential value. These Navy vehicles anchor the tuition-and-fees contracting stream. The VISN 12 indefinite delivery contract ($160,779 ceiling) serves as the primary vehicle for recurring animal care delivery orders. Four additional smaller IDCs round out the vehicle portfolio.

Recent activity shows mixed trajectory: contract work has declined (15 awards in 2022 to 5 in 2026 year-to-date), while grant funding has remained robust. Fourteen awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure. Grant work spans prime recipient status on National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Cancer Institute, and National Institute on Drug Abuse projects; the university also acts as a sub-recipient on collaborative research with New York University, Columbia University, Ohio State University, and other research institutions across neuroscience, cancer biology, infectious disease, and behavioral health domains.

The university's contract portfolio is stratified by transaction size: Navy tuition orders typically range from $16,000 to $104,000, while VA animal care orders range from $2,893 to $51,008. This commodity-like, low-dollar-per-transaction model differs sharply from the university's research grant footprint, where project awards run to hundreds of thousands of dollars per grant and reflect competitive peer review. The university competes full-and-open across both contracting and grant channels with no set-aside or small-business status.