The University Of Memphis

The University Of Memphis, operating through its Bursar Office, provides federal tuition reimbursement and educational support services to the Department of the Navy and other federal agencies as a prime contractor (90% of recent awards). The entity is a state-controlled institution of higher learning, a child entity of the Board of Regents Tennessee, based in Memphis, Tennessee, and competes on federal contracts without set-aside designation.

The University of Memphis's federal footprint centers on Naval education and training support. The Department of the Navy accounts for 90% of combined potential value across recent awards, split between the Naval Education and Training Command (16 awards, $2.5 million) and the Bureau of Naval Personnel (16 awards combined across two sub-offices totaling $2.4 million). The institution delivers firm fixed-price delivery orders covering NROTC tuition, midshipmen scholarship funding, and summer training support. Representative recent contracts include a $386,955 delivery order (March 2025) for midshipman scholarship student tuition, a $317,577 delivery order (November 2025) for retroactive tuition coverage and allowable fees for Fall 2025 NROTC midshipmen in the Memphis Mid-South region, and a $249,196 delivery order (March 2026) for spring 2026 tuition and allowable fees. The Bureau of Naval Personnel also issued smaller delivery orders ranging from $2,556 to $434,673 for educational service agreements and semester-specific tuition support. All placement of performance occurs in Memphis, Tennessee.

Two Navy indefinite delivery contracts serve as parent vehicles: Contract N0014006G0065 (15 task orders, $1.5 million combined potential value) and Basic Ordering Agreement N0018919GZ043 (14 task orders, $2.4 million). The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Memphis and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 represent secondary customer agencies at much smaller scale ($75 thousand and $29 thousand respectively). Activity has remained modest and flat — one award in 2021, five in 2023 and 2024, six in 2025, and two through March 2026.

As a sub-recipient on federal research grants, the University of Memphis participates in health outcomes and psychiatric research. Named prime grantees include the University of Tennessee (on the Reimagining Education for Advanced Careers in Healthcare and Predicting Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease programs), the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (on statistical analysis and methodology work under NIH sub-awards where Dr. Ray serves as co-investigator), New York University (on a precision psychiatry and PTSD project), and Tennessee Technological University. The combined potential value across all 77 awards (prime contracts and grants plus sub-awards) is $5.6 million, with $5.2 million already obligated.