Trustees Of Indiana University

Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, is a state-controlled public research university based in Bloomington, Indiana, that operates as the prime recipient or sub-recipient on over 5,100 federal awards spanning research grants, service contracts, and research support deliveries across 260 distinct federal agencies. Indiana University competes predominantly full-and-open, with no SBA set-asides, and delivers concrete capabilities in biomedical research, STEM education, scientific infrastructure development, and research support services to the federal government.

Indiana University's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward research funding. The top five customer agencies by award count account for roughly 35 percent of all awards; the National Science Foundation leads by far with 1,179 awards (primarily project grants in mathematical sciences, geosciences, and STEM education), followed by the National Institute on Aging (232 awards), the National Institutes of Health broadly (181 awards), the Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education (139 awards), and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (88 awards). By potential value, the concentration narrows: the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases anchors the ranking at $10.8 million combined potential value across 77 awards, but the top five funding agencies together represent only 6 percent of the combined potential value across all awards, reflecting the university's broad, distributed portfolio of smaller research grants. Indiana University has worked with the Department of the Army Indiana Army National Guard ($3.2 million across 53 awards), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ($3.1 million across 66 awards), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke ($2.6 million across 48 awards), and the National Cancer Institute ($2.3 million across 81 awards).

Recent capability work demonstrates Indiana University's footprint across life sciences, physical sciences, and education research. Representative prime awards include a $14.5 million definitive contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture Research Service for Scientific Computing Initiative Network operations and security operations center services (awarded May 2026, Bloomington), a $1.12 million delivery order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Vaccine Safety Datalink IDIQ to evaluate the childhood vaccination schedule per Executive Order 14398 (awarded August 2026, completion June 2028), and a $7.5 million cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to establish the NSF IMPACT Engine in Indiana, a coordinated regional innovation network focused on musculoskeletal conditions and biotechnology (awarded August 2026, extending through July 2036). At the sub-recipient level, Indiana University participates in National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation consortial research; named sub-award examples include collaborations with the University of Pittsburgh on perioperative precision medicine in opioid use, the University of Southern California on prenatal cannabis intervention, and the University of Utah on oral health outcomes following bariatric surgery.

Activity has grown substantially. Awards per year rose from 299 in 2023 to 516 in 2024, then moderated to 427 in 2025; the 237 awards recorded in 2026 reflect a year still in progress. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $372.3 million, though obligated dollars total $3.4 billion (914 percent of potential value), indicating substantial multi-year funding in the portfolio. Within the next twenty-four months, 247 awards face ultimate completion dates and therefore recompete exposure, representing $5.2 million in combined potential value.

Service Contract Inventory captures a narrow, sub-$150,000-threshold slice of Indiana University's federal activity: 30 SCI-reportable records (25 as prime, 5 as sub) spanning FY2022–FY2025. SCI-reported invoicing totaled $4 million across the four years, with FY2022 at $1.2 million (8.8 FTEs), FY2023 peaking at $801 thousand (143 FTEs), and FY2024–FY2025 trending lower at $1.1 million and $933 thousand respectively. The FTE spike in FY2023 reflects contract-level reporting that does not necessarily reflect enterprise workforce scale; SCI is a partial view of federal services activity above the reporting threshold and excludes goods, research, micro-purchases, and non-federal revenue. Across prime SCI contracts, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $71.58/hr, with the 10th percentile at $12.66/hr and 90th percentile at $130.09/hr, reflecting a broad labor mix from student workers through senior subject-matter experts. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors contributed an average of 2 percent of total hours.

Indiana University's GSA Schedule labor portfolio carries 38 active labor categories spanning $27.65/hr (student worker, high school education) through $256.69/hr (subject-matter expert with ten years' experience). Representative mid-tier offerings include operations coordinators at $67.64/hr, IT technicians at $79.16/hr, communications specialists at $99.80/hr, and project managers at $117.57/hr. No security-cleared positions are offered on the Schedule; all roles are civilian, non-classified, and education-centric. The vendor operates as prime contractor on indefinite-delivery contracts with the Department of the Army (V583P00213, 36 task orders, $860 thousand combined potential value; V583P00212, 33 task orders, $332 thousand) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (IDC NNJ06HB93B, 44 task orders, $560 thousand), and holds a multi-agency Indefinite Delivery Contract W912L905D0006 with 42 task orders valued at $1.3 million combined potential value. The vendor holds no GWAC positions mentioned in the source.

Indiana University operates 79 percent of its awards as a prime (4,109 awards) and 21 percent as a sub-recipient or subcontractor (1,068 awards), signaling both institutional autonomy in direct federal engagement and substantial participation in consortial and collaborative research networks. The vendor does not appear to function as a feeder subcontractor to larger primes; instead, Indiana University typically leads collaborative research efforts, bringing other universities and research centers as sub-recipients. Across the portfolio, grant recipients and sub-recipients span major research universities (University of Pennsylvania, University of Florida, University of Pittsburgh, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Emory University, Yale, Stanford, Harvard), federal laboratories (Jackson Laboratory, Benaroya Research Institute), and state health agencies (Indiana Department of Health, Indiana Department of Workforce Development). The vendor's sub-engagement on federal service contracts captured in SCI shows minimal reliance on external subcontractors (2 percent average sub-hours share), indicating that Indiana University builds its own delivery and research teams for the majority of contracted work.

Federal grant work dominates the award footprint. Indiana University is the recipient of project grants from the National Science Foundation (mathematical sciences, geosciences, STEM education, cyberinfrastructure), the National Institutes of Health (Alzheimer's disease research, infectious disease, neurobiology, cardiometabolic health), the National Institute on Aging, the Department of Defense (basic scientific research, aerospace), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Department of Agriculture, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Energy. Representative recent project grants include a $1.595 million National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases award for structural and functional research on HIV-1 Rev-response element assembly (June 2026, Bloomington, completion May 2030), a $1.484 million National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute award to develop and validate a behavioral large language model for identifying guideline-directed medical treatments for peripheral artery disease (June 2026, Bloomington, completion March 2031), and a $1.232 million National Institute on Aging award for AI-driven drug discovery and virtual screening pipelines targeting Alzheimer's disease (February 2026, Woodbridge, completion January 2031). Cooperative agreements supplement the project-grant portfolio; recent examples include $7.5 million (NSF IMPACT Engine in Indiana, musculoskeletal biotechnology), $2.016 million (USDA APHIS, ultraviolet-C disinfection against avian influenza), $1.184 million (NSF Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, resilience of open-source AI software), and $993,656 (NSF Ocean Sciences, cybersecurity for the Academic Research Fleet).

Corporate structure identifies the vendor as "Trustees of Indiana University," with sixteen named subsidiary records that variously carry designations as non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and state-controlled entities of higher learning. The named subsidiary entries reflect administrative segmentation within Indiana University's system (e.g., Trustees holding authority for main Bloomington campus, regional campuses, and professional schools) rather than separate operating entities. The vendor's headquarters at 107 South Indiana Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana, serves as the administrative anchor for the entire system, though research and service delivery occur at Bloomington, Indianapolis (IUPUI), and other campus locations across Indiana.