A New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation The Cooper Health System

A New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation The Cooper Health System, doing business as Cooper University Hospital, a Camden-based academic medical center, is a tax-exempt hospital organization that serves the federal government as both a prime contractor and grant recipient, competing full-and-open without set-aside designations. Cooper delivers emergency medical services, clinical training, teleconsultation support, medical data collection, and trauma research and clinical trial participation across federal health agencies, the Department of Justice, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Department of State.

Cooper operates as a prime on 74 awards (55% of recent activity) and subcontracts on 60 awards (45%), with 134 total awards tracked across contract and grant channels spanning 1998 to July 2026. The vendor's customer base is diffuse: the top five agencies by award count account for 44% of awards, led by the Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix (Bureau of Prisons, 28 awards, $433 thousand combined potential value) and FCI Fairton (Bureau of Prisons, 8 awards, $165 thousand), followed by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Health Resources and Services Administration, and others. By potential value, the Consumer Product Safety Commission leads ($826 thousand across 3 awards), anchored by a $112,624 sole-source purchase order for data collection on consumer product-related injuries (awarded July 2024, performance through June 2025). The Department of State's Bureau of Medical Services holds $311 thousand across 3 awards, including a $226,791 teleconsultation support contract (September 2021, four one-year option periods through December 2026). The Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office awarded a $200 thousand purchase order for emergency medical services clinical immersion training at Cooper's Center of Excellence (September 2021, completed September 2022).

Recent prime contract work includes a $1.096 million definitive firm-fixed-price contract from the Immediate Office of the Secretary (Department of Homeland Security) for EMS training services, with an ultimate completion date of September 2029, modified in 2024 to exercise Option Period 2. Cooper also holds task orders under the Department of Defense's indefinite delivery contract W81XWH16D0024, with four orders placed to date. FCI Fairton issued a $31,725 purchase order for emergency medical airlift services for an inmate on March 4, 2025 (completed April 2025); the same facility awarded a prior $31,275 purchase order in March 2023 on identical scope.

Cooper's grant footprint is substantial and research-heavy. The vendor acts as prime recipient on grants from the Department of Health and Human Services' Bureau of Health Professionals and National Institutes of Health, and as sub-recipient on a majority of its grant awards. Recent prime grants include a $499,924 Primary Care Training and Enhancement (CFDA 93.884) Project Grant from HHS Bureau of Health Professionals (July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2031) funding residency training in street medicine for individuals experiencing homelessness, building on Cooper's existing Addiction Medicine Division and mobile health care unit. Cooper also holds a second prime grant from the Bureau of Health Professionals for Addiction Medicine Fellowship (July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2030). As a sub-recipient, Cooper participates in multi-institutional clinical trials and research initiatives across the National Institutes of Health, including the Prehospital Analgesia Intervention Trial (PAIN Trial) as a site investigator under the University of Pittsburgh as prime (multiple awards July–April 2025), studying fentanyl versus sub-dissociative ketamine for trauma patients with compensated shock. Cooper also serves as an enrollment and data-collection site on research led by Washington University (awareness with paralysis in mechanically ventilated emergency department patients), University of Pennsylvania (HIV care retention and ART adherence), Yale University (opioid use disorder treatment), and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (stroke research via StrokeNet).

Historical grant work includes Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response funding (September 2022–September 2026) for military-civilian partnerships in battlefield trauma medical readiness, and Congressional Direct Spending for construction of an academic medical training center (September 2022–August 2026) supporting military medical provider training in prolonged and in-route care and battlefield resuscitation. Cooper also received Ryan White Title III HIV capacity development funding ($150 thousand, September 1, 2023–August 31, 2024) from the HIV/AIDS Bureau to expand dental services for persons with HIV, and carries recurring sub-awards from the New Jersey Department of Health for special pathogen treatment centers, diabetes prevention, breast and cervical cancer screening, Ryan White HIV services, and pediatric tertiary care.

Activity has grown substantially — three awards in 2022 to 29 in 2024 — though 2025 and 2026 activity is still accruing in the source data. Four awards with combined potential value of $227 thousand reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to modest recompete risk. SCI-reported invoiced revenue on prime service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $114 thousand in FY2023 and $593 thousand in FY2024, covering 1.2 and 4.0 FTEs respectively; these SCI figures represent a small slice of Cooper's total federal revenue and do not include grant awards, goods, or sub-recipient work. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates range from roughly $40/hr at the tenth percentile to a median of $46/hr and $116/hr at the ninety-eighth percentile, reflecting a mix of clinical and administrative labor. Cooper performs the work in-house on SCI-tracked primes — subcontractor hours share zero percent — and operates predominantly through direct clinical and administrative delivery rather than through outsourced subcontracting relationships.