University Of Kansas

University of Kansas, a state-controlled public research institution and recipient of federal contracts and grants, primarily furnishes educational services — tuition, fees, and specialized training — to the Department of the Navy and Department of Defense through firm fixed-price delivery orders, and operates as a prime awardee on 96% of its recent federal awards. The university is not a subcontractor-dependent entity; it performs the vast majority of work directly as the prime recipient or contractor.

The university's federal footprint is narrowly concentrated in military educational support. The Department of the Navy Naval Education and Training Command leads by volume, accounting for 85 awards with $8.8 million in combined potential value, anchored almost entirely on Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) tuition and mandatory-fee delivery orders. Representative contract work includes a $135,633 Spring 2026 tuition delivery order (March 2026, Bureau of Naval Personnel), a $117,802 2025 NROTC midshipmen tuition award (September 2025, Naval Education and Training Command), and a $143,620 tuition and fees delivery order (April 2024, Naval Education and Training Command). The Department of the Navy Bureau of Naval Personnel Chief of Naval Personnel ranks second with 13 awards valued at $1.8 million, also for tuition and fees. The Department of the Army, Department of the Air Force, and the Department of the Interior collectively account for the remaining activity. The top five customer agencies by award count cover 53% of all awards; by potential value, the top five cover only 26%, indicating that Navy tuition work dominates the dollar concentration while the Army and Air Force contribute more dispersed, lower-value awards.

University of Kansas places task orders across five Navy parent vehicles, led by Indefinite Delivery Contract N0014006G0023 with 30 task orders valued at $6.1 million combined, followed by Indefinite Delivery Contract N0024409G0041 with 38 task orders at $2.1 million combined. These vehicles sustain recurring quarterly and semester-based tuition billing cycles that characterize the university's prime Navy workload. Recent activity has grown modestly — four awards in 2022 to fourteen in 2025 — but the recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months shows minimal exposure, with only one award reaching ultimate completion inside that window.

The university's federal grant portfolio centers on education and research. Prime grant recipients include the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, which awarded the $363,552 Southern Plains Indigenous Teaching Pathway Project (October 2025, CFDA 84.299) to support teacher preparation and educator professional development for Native American students, and prior Professional Development Grant funding for school-leader equity initiatives. The university also received a Cooperative Agreement from the National Park Service Midwest Region for ethnobotany documentation and educational materials development for the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Visitor Center (August 2021, completed March 2023). As a sub-recipient, the university operates grant work flowing through the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, the Iowa Department of Public Health, and the University of Florida; sub-award scope includes crisis intervention training delivery (KLETC CIT), substance-abuse overdose response and prevention programming (SOR 4, fentanyl test strips), continuous quality improvement data support, and infrastructure services for the Symbiota portal network supporting museum collections and biodiversity data nationally.

The university operates through four named subsidiaries: University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc.; University of Kansas Center for Research Inc.; Kansas, University Of; and University of Kansas — all structured as non-profit or state-controlled entities. Service Contract Inventory reporting captures minimal activity — a single SCI record in FY2024 showing 4.2 FTEs delivered as a named subcontractor — reflecting the fact that the university's federal work is predominantly fee-for-service tuition billing and grant-based research rather than labor-hour service contracts subject to SCI thresholds.