South Georgia State College

South Georgia State College, doing business as South Georgia College Bookstor, is a state-controlled institution of higher learning located in Douglas, Georgia, that serves as a child entity under South Georgia State College Foundation, Inc. As a U.S. Government entity registered in SAM.gov since March 2002, the college has established itself as a reliable federal contractor and grant recipient. The institution provides facility-based services and educational support programs to federal agencies, leveraging its campus infrastructure and personnel capacity to support both emergency response operations and student-focused educational initiatives.

Through federal contract awards, South Georgia State College has demonstrated significant capability in providing emergency facility support services. Most notably, the college received a $12,000 firm fixed-price purchase order from the Federal Emergency Management Agency on November 10, 2025, to lease facility space at its Douglas campus in support of Hurricane Debby and Hurricane Helene disaster relief operations under Disaster Declarations DR-4821 and DR-4830-GA. This contract, executed without set-aside designation and scheduled for completion by March 9, 2026, provides temporary accommodation for 30 FEMA personnel. The award reflects the college's established capacity and prior experience with federal agencies in providing lodging and facility services during emergency situations. The procurement was awarded under a non-competitive basis, leveraging the institution's existing relationships and infrastructure capabilities to rapidly deploy resources in response to declared hurricane emergencies affecting Georgia.

South Georgia State College has received federal grant awards focused on supporting student services and pandemic response initiatives. In July 2022, the college received a $686,636 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Education Stabilization Fund program (CFDA 84.425) to support its Student Support Services and Retention Program (SSARP) through July 13, 2023. This grant was designed to help the institution prevent, prepare for, and respond to impacts of the coronavirus pandemic while providing direct student support services. Additionally, South Georgia State College received a School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) grant from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, awarded on December 1, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of September 1, 2026. These grants demonstrate the college's commitment to student retention and institutional resilience through federally-funded educational support programs.

South Georgia State College holds a Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded by the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) for lodging services. This single-award BPA, established on July 2, 2021 with a ceiling value of $73,500 and performance period extending through June 30, 2022, enables the college to provide hotel-style lodging accommodations for FLETC trainees and staff in the event of hurricane evacuations requiring relocation from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's primary facility in Glynco, Georgia. The agreement was structured to establish pre-negotiated rates for rapid access to emergency housing capacity on an as-needed basis through subsequent task orders. As a nearby institutional partner to FLETC, South Georgia State College provides critical surge capacity that allows the training center to maintain operational continuity during hurricane emergency situations, expediting emergency response operations and enabling the resumption of federal law enforcement training activities once conditions permit.