Texas TECH University Health Sciences Center At El Paso

Texas TECH University Health Sciences Center At El Paso (TTUHSC El Paso), doing business as Ttuhsc Office Of Student Services, is a public research university and Hispanic Serving Institution operating as a child entity within the Texas TECH University System. The institution functions as a federal recipient in medical education, physician advisory services, and biomedical research, competing on full-and-open contract awards without set-aside designations. TTUHSC El Paso operates from El Paso, Texas, with work performed at the main campus and subordinate clinical and border-region locations including Canutillo and Fort Bliss.

TTUHSC El Paso's concrete federal footprint centers on two distinct capability streams. First, the institution delivers tuition and fees services for Navy medical education and training programs, with seventeen recent delivery orders to the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery covering academic terms valued between $12.8 thousand and $98.1 thousand each, firm fixed-price under a standing Basic Ordering Agreement (N0018919GZ060). Second, the institution provides physician advisory and medical direction services to the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection for emergency medical services and border health initiatives — a $36.0 thousand purchase order for local physician advisor services to the Emergency Medicine Service Program in Canutillo, Texas (August 2024), and earlier engagement for medical direction services at Fort Bliss (August 2022, $70.4 thousand) demonstrate this capability.

On the research and grant side, TTUHSC El Paso acts as prime recipient on biomedical research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Recent prime grants include work on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mitochondrial mechanisms (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, July 2024, ultimate completion May 2030), lipid metabolism and hematopoietic development (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, February 2024, completed September 2024), influenza vaccine development for children (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, March 2023, completing February 2027), and tuberculosis vaccine immunogenicity (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, February 2023, completing April 2025). The institution also delivered border-health community education on pesticide exposure to migrant farmworkers under an EPA Region 6 cooperative agreement (September 2022, completed August 2024) and received congressionally directed spending from the Health Resources and Services Administration for border-region health data infrastructure and telemedicine capability (July 2023, completing January 2025).

On the sub-recipient side, TTUHSC El Paso participates in seventeen federal grant sub-awards, primarily in cancer research coordination and clinical trial enrollment support. The institution serves as a sub-recipient to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio on Texas Pediatric NCORP awards for enrollment of children and adolescents in cancer control and therapeutic studies (multiple awards through October 2025 and beyond), supporting eligibility determination, enrollment coordination, biospecimen collection, and outreach to underserved Hispanic and Spanish-speaking populations. TTUHSC El Paso also holds sub-recipient roles under Baylor College of Medicine for pediatric cancer cohort studies and biospecimen collection, under the University of Texas at El Paso for stroke rehabilitation telehealth intervention studies, and under University of Missouri System for Bacillus subtilis strain development supporting mucosal delivery systems research.

Customer concentration is dispersed across twenty-eight federal agencies. The top funding agencies by award count include the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (eleven awards, $501 thousand combined potential value), the National Cancer Institute (nine awards under grant vehicles), the Department of the Navy (six awards, $337 thousand), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (five awards). By potential value, the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 17 anchors the portfolio at $2.2 million across four awards. The Navy's Basic Ordering Agreement N0018919GZ060 carries sixteen tuition task orders valued at $838 thousand combined, representing the single largest parent vehicle. Recent awards show growth, with fifteen awards in 2025 compared to seven in 2022, though 2026 year-to-date shows only four awards. Five awards complete within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $79 thousand.

The institution's award portfolio spans colleges and universities NAICS (twenty awards) and medical services (office of physicians and behavioral health categories accounting for seven awards). TTUHSC El Paso does not sit on multi-award federal contracts or government-wide acquisition contracts; tuition and fees work flows through a single Navy BOA, and research is routed through direct NIH project grants and cooperative agreements. The institution's role is predominantly recipient (prime on grant work and tuition contracts) and sub-recipient on cooperative research grants, with no subcontractor footprint to private firms.