Board Of Trustees Of Southern Illinois University

Board Of Trustees Of Southern Illinois University, doing business as Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), a state-controlled institution of higher learning based in Edwardsville, Illinois, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants and as a prime contractor delivering tuition and educational services to the Department of the Navy and other civilian agencies. SIUE does not compete under set-aside designations; it operates as a government entity and competes full-and-open across 64 distinct federal customer agencies.

SIUE's federal award footprint is dominated by research grants and educational funding. The institution acts as prime recipient on 320 of 341 awards (94%) spanning research, undergraduate and graduate education, workforce development, and museum collections stewardship. Representative prime grant work includes a $1.23 million National Science Foundation STEM Education grant (CFDA 47.076) awarded September 2025 for collaborative research scaling flipped-instruction teaching practices across Illinois and Missouri institutions; a $2 million Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Nurse Education, Practice Quality and Retention grant (CFDA 93.359) awarded September 2025 for nursing workforce expansion in rural and long-term care settings; and a $144.5 thousand National Institute of General Medical Sciences Biomedical Research and Research Training grant (CFDA 93.859) awarded July 2026 for LAT1-selective cancer inhibitor development. SIUE also holds a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement with the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (N0018913GZ001) that has generated 19 small delivery orders for tuition and fees to support military personnel education, with individual task orders ranging from $8.3 thousand to $27.6 thousand and totaling $299 thousand combined potential value. Contract work consists almost entirely of these Navy tuition reimbursement task orders issued under the BOA since 2022.

Customer concentration sits heavily with research and education funders. The National Science Foundation leads by award count with 56 awards, while NASA's Shared Services Center dominates by potential value with five awards carrying $2.3 million combined potential value. The Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery ranks second in both volume (31 awards) and value ($381 thousand), and the Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education accounts for 29 awards funding TRIO Upward Bound, CCAMPIS, and related student support programs. The top five customers by award count represent 43% of all awards. The potential-value and award-count rankings diverge significantly; research grants from NSF, NIH components, and other science agencies drive dollar magnitude despite smaller award counts, while education-funding agencies (Department of Education, HHS Health Resources and Services Administration) generate high award volume with smaller individual values.

Activity has declined from recent years. SIUE received 17 awards in each of 2022 and 2023, 14 in 2024, and only 6 in 2025 and 4 through September 2026 within the source data window. Eleven awards (including several TRIO and nursing-education grants) have ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk. SIUE's grant sub-award footprint shows engagement as a sub-recipient under prime grantees including the Illinois State Board of Education (on Child and Adult Care Food Program reimbursements), Ohio State University (on fermentation and enzyme-production research), Baylor College of Medicine (on gut microbiota research), and the Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem (on tropical feedstock and biomanufacturing projects).

SIUE's capability portfolio centers on undergraduate and graduate STEM education, biomedical and life-science research, environmental and watershed science, nursing workforce development, and educational equity programming. Recent research awards span cancer biology, Alzheimer's disease therapeutics, nanodiamond quantum sensing for biomass research, endangered species conservation, hydride kinetic isotope effects in enzyme catalysis, and language documentation infrastructure. Educational programming includes REU sites for undergraduate research mentorship, pathway programs for high-school students pursuing health professions, and faculty professional development in inclusive pedagogy. The University Museum operates as a grant recipient for collections management and digitization. The institution does not hold positions on government-wide acquisition contracts (GWACs) or civilian agency IDIQs; all vehicle activity centers on the Navy BOA for tuition reimbursement and small Air Force and Army IDCs for education and training services.