Trustees Of Boston University

Trustees Of Boston University, operating through its Office of the Comptroller, is a non-profit private research university that serves as the prime contractor for tuition and educational services delivered to the Department of the Navy as firm fixed-price delivery orders, with 94% of its recent awards in a prime capacity and no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

The university's federal contracting activity is heavily concentrated on Navy educational service delivery. The Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery dominates by both volume and dollars, accounting for 101 awards valued at $10.8 million in combined potential value, followed by the Bureau of Naval Personnel Chief of Naval Personnel (17 awards, $6.4 million combined potential value), the Naval Education and Training Command (24 awards, $1.4 million combined potential value), and the Department of the Navy broadly (21 awards, $1.4 million combined potential value). These five customer components account for 71% of recent awards and 78% of combined potential value. The concentration reflects the university's role as the primary tuition and fee provider for Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) midshipmen, naval medical personnel, and active-duty Navy servicemembers attending Boston University's Boston, Massachusetts campus. Representative awards include a $651,292 Spring 2026 NROTC midshipmen tuition and allowable fees delivery order from the Bureau of Naval Personnel (March 6, 2026), a $556,690 retroactive Fall 2025 NROTC tuition ratification from the Bureau of Naval Personnel (December 20, 2025), and a $243,665 tuition and fees delivery order from the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (January 2, 2024). The university also holds contracts with the Naval Education and Training Command for individual servicemember tuition support, typically ranging from approximately $24,000 to $733,000 per delivery order.

Boston University's federal work sits on three principal parent vehicles: an Indefinite Delivery Contract (N0018907GZ025) with 68 task orders valued at $9.2 million combined potential value, an Indefinite Delivery Contract (N0014098G2420) with 51 task orders valued at $3 million combined potential value, and a Basic Ordering Agreement (N0018919GZ070) with 21 task orders valued at $8.1 million combined potential value. All three vehicles are Navy contracts anchoring the university's tuition and fees work with the Department of the Navy.

Award activity has remained modest and relatively flat in recent years — 11 awards in 2022 declining to 4 in 2026 (year-to-date) — with only one award (combined potential value $222 thousand) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal near-term recompete exposure. The university's federal grant footprint includes research work: a June 2022 Naval Sea Systems Command project grant for "Imaging the Dynamics of Complex Connections" running through January 2026, and sub-recipient roles on multiple National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense grants spanning education, behavioral health, and scientific research. Sub-contract activity is negligible at 6% of awards, with named subcontractors including International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc., Physical Sciences Inc., and Charles River Analytics, Inc. on research and development work.

Service Contract Inventory records for Boston University show SCI-reportable invoiced federal service-contract revenue of $841 thousand in FY2022, $725 thousand in FY2023, and $492 thousand in FY2024, declining year over year. The SCI dataset captures approximately 3.2 FTEs in FY2022, 3.7 FTEs in FY2023, and 1.7 FTEs in FY2024 assigned to federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold — a narrow window of the university's total federal footprint. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $86.69/hr to a median of $100.48/hr to a 90th percentile of $141.86/hr. SCI records show negligible subcontractor engagement at 1% of total contractor hours across prime contracts. The Office of the Comptroller is a child entity of Trustees Of Boston University, the parent tax-exempt corporation responsible for the institution's overall federal awards and grants portfolio, which encompasses 242 total awards across 31 distinct federal agencies since 1996.