University Of Nebraska Medical Center

University Of Nebraska Medical Center Student Financial Services Division operates as a state-controlled educational institution providing medical education, healthcare training services, and tuition administration to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor through a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement with the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, with subsidiary engagement as a grant sub-recipient on federally funded biomedical research. The division competes without set-asides on a full-and-open basis, with all prime contract work flowing through the Navy's medical education vehicle.

UNMC's federal footprint splits unevenly: 37 percent of recent awards are primes (28 awards) and 63 percent are grant sub-awards under other institutions (48 awards). The top customer by award count and dollar value is the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (11 awards), followed closely by the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (7 awards, $280 thousand combined potential value) and the Department of the Army Training and Doctrine Command (7 awards, $2.3 million combined potential value). The concentration figures mask a structural split: Navy and Army dollars flow through two parent vehicles—a Basic Ordering Agreement with the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery carrying 10 task orders valued at $532 thousand, and an Indefinite Delivery Contract W81K0406D0020 holding 5 task orders worth $1.1 million. These vehicles fund tuition and fees for federal medical personnel attending UNMC, with recent delivery orders ranging from $3,246 to $97,523 per order. Representative prime awards include a $90,580 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery tuition delivery order (March 2026), a $91,897 Department of the Navy tuition delivery order (March 2026), and a $97,523 Department of the Navy tuition and fees delivery order (July 2025).

UNMC's role as a grant sub-recipient dominates activity volume. The division acts as a sub-recipient under prime grantees including Emory University, The Washington University, and Vanderbilt University on federally funded biomedical research spanning infectious disease (National Ebola Training and Education Center work under Emory), oncology (pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma rapid autopsy work under Washington University), rheumatology and vascular surgery (peripheral arterial disease bioengineered composite research under Washington University), sickle cell disease treatment and quality improvement (Heartland Southwest Sickle Cell Disease Network under Washington University), and substance use disorder research (alcohol use disorder and HIV remission studies under Vanderbilt). UNMC performs clinical research, diagnostic expertise, animal model work, and biostatistical analysis on these grants; the Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Demonstration Program work represents UNMC as the Nebraska site principal investigator implementing telehealth delivery and care coordination across a regional infrastructure serving eight states.

Recent activity shows accelerating award volume: four awards in 2022 rising to twenty-six in 2024 and sixteen in 2025, with ten awards through April 2026. Combined potential value across all seventy-six awards stands at $2.9 million against obligated dollars of $31.8 million—a mismatch reflecting heavy SCI reporting on tuition contracts with low ceiling values but high actual invoicing tied to enrollment. The top NAICS category is Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (22 awards), with Performance Service Classification codes concentrated in Education/Training Tuition/Registration/Membership Fees (14 awards) and Educational Services (5 awards). Work is performed in Omaha, Nebraska with administrative oversight through the university's Student Financial Services division. Service Contract Inventory captures only one SCI record (FY2022), showing 1.7 FTEs on a single sub-contract position, indicating that UNMC's federal services activity significantly exceeds SCI coverage—the dataset reflects only classified or sub-$150,000 threshold records from that period, while tuition delivery orders and grant sub-recipient work fall outside standard SCI reporting.