University Of Illinois Chicago Campus

University Of Illinois Chicago Campus operates as a division of the Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Illinois, a state government entity and Land Grant research institution, delivering tuition and educational services to military and civilian federal personnel alongside atmospheric research and grant-funded clinical and health research programs. The campus is a child entity under the parent University Of Illinois structure, headquartered at 809 S Marshfield Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. UIC competes under full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations across its federal work — all recent awards carry a "No Set-Aside Used" designation.

The Department of the Navy anchors UIC's recent contract portfolio, accounting for 7 awards with $465 thousand combined potential value across a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement running through June 2035. Under this BOA, the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery issues recurring delivery orders for tuition and fees funding military personnel and civilian employee coursework at the Chicago campus. Seven delivery orders issued between June 2025 and March 2026 range from $24,114 to $115,942, with combined values near $473 thousand covering summer and fall term coursework. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $76,260 purchase order effective September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2029 for atmospheric observatory services at Station BND near Bondville, Illinois, managing GML aerosol and radiation monitoring operations on behalf of Midwest atmospheric data collection. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration, the CDC Office of Acquisition Services, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention round out the top five customer agencies by award count.

UIC's federal work spans 66 awards across 24 distinct agencies, with combined potential value of $6.1 million and combined obligated dollars of $8.2 million. Prime awards constitute 79% of this portfolio (52 awards), with 21% routed through sub-recipient positions in grant programs. Award velocity has accelerated in the past two years — from 2 awards in 2023 to 4 in 2024 to 9 in 2025, with 4 in 2026 to date. Category concentration runs across two dominant service lines: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (15 awards) and Offices of Physicians (16 awards), with Education/Training Tuition/Registration/Membership Fees and Medical Neurology dominating the PSC distribution. UIC operates a subsidiary clinical and research infrastructure reflected in its NAICS spread — diagnostic imaging, specialty medical services, and academic program delivery form the operational spine of recent federal engagement.

On the grant side, UIC serves as sub-recipient under multiple prime grantees, including the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (dental sleep medicine clinical research), the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (peer navigator intervention for disability transition, gait improvement research), the University of Chicago (Young Scholar's Program summer mathematics instruction), the City of Chicago (Head Start programming), and Mentor: The National Mentoring Partnership (OJJDP National Mentoring Resource Center research direction). Additional sub-recipient work flows through the Chicago Department of Public Health (HIV disease support services and infectious disease prevention capacity), Rush University Medical Center (obesity prevention intervention research), and Temple University (mental health recovery action planning evaluation). Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal SCI-reportable activity — a single sub-contract record in FY2022 valued below threshold, reflecting that the bulk of UIC's federal services are delivered as prime recipient under education and research grants rather than as a named subcontractor on federal service contracts above the $150 thousand SCI reporting floor.