Spalding University Inc.

Spalding University Inc., a private non-profit educational institution based in Louisville, Kentucky, operates exclusively as a federal grant and contract recipient, delivering advanced nursing, mental health workforce, graduate psychology, and public health training to federal agencies with no subcontract footprint. The university holds a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement with the Department of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (established September 2024, extending through September 2034) and competes full-and-open across all grant and contract award types without set-aside designations.

Spalding's federal footprint centers on healthcare workforce development. Recent contract work flows through the Navy BOA as small tuition and fees delivery orders ranging from roughly $10,550 to $15,080 per award, supporting advanced nursing education, mental health workforce training, graduate psychology programs, and public health and safety training for Navy personnel. The BOA structure, with a $0 ceiling and indefinite delivery authority, enables the Navy to procure these specialized educational services on an as-needed basis through 2034. Grant work carries substantially larger scale: Spalding holds active federal grants for advanced nursing education workforce development from the Bureau of Health Professionals (awarded July 2023, extending through June 2027), a five-year Department of Labor workforce development grant titled SPALDING PATH for nursing and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner training (awarded June 2023, extending through May 2028, requesting $2.37 million federal funding over five years with employer and clinical partners including Baptist Floyd Hospital, Flagel Memorial Hospital, University of Louisville, and Park Duvalle Community Health Center), graduate psychology education programs from the Bureau of Health Professionals (awarded July 2022, extending through June 2028), a TRIO Student Support Services grant from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education for comprehensive student support services including tutoring, academic advising, and financial literacy (awarded September 2025, valued at $272,364 through September 2026), and prior grants from the Bureau of Health Professionals for geriatric academic career awards and health and public safety workforce resiliency training.

Customer concentration splits unevenly between contract and grant portfolios. Grant funding from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration and its Bureau of Health Professionals dominates by award count (23 combined awards across both agency lines), but Navy contract awards anchor the potential value ranking with six task orders under the BOA valued at approximately $73,000 combined. The Department of Education, Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration, and Defense Health Agency complete the active customer set. Recent activity remains modest — four awards in 2025, one in 2026 — but four awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, triggering recompete cycles for continued funding. The university's grant and contract work operates from Louisville, Kentucky, with employer and training partners concentrated in the Kentuckiana region (Jefferson and Hardin Counties in Kentucky and Floyd County in Indiana) for workforce development initiatives.