University Of Mary Washington

University Of Mary Washington Finance Division, operating as the Administration And Finance Department, is a public state university providing classroom facilities, educational infrastructure, and related educational services to federal agencies as a prime contractor and grant recipient. The university competes in full-and-open (unrestricted) federal contracting, with no set-aside designations applied to any of its federal contracts.

The university's federal footprint is dominated by classroom and auditorium rental services to the Naval Sea Systems Command at the Dahlgren, Virginia naval facility. Through a single-award BPA valued at $1,708,010.24 running through January 2029, the university has issued more than 20 task orders for classroom types A, B, E, and auditorium construction and rental support. Representative firm fixed-price BPA calls include a $247,558 call issued August 1, 2026, with ultimate completion February 26, 2027; a $131,269 call for a classroom type E auditorium awarded January 11, 2024; and a $151,210 call for classroom facility rental awarded April 1, 2025. The source identifies a larger multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Vehicle under the United States Naval Community College Partnerships program with potential value of $147,050,000, though task-order activity on that vehicle appears minimal in the recent data.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of the Navy (broadly) accounts for 74 awards and $156.6 million combined potential value across both NAVSEA and Navy-wide funding; NAVSEA alone accounts for 70 awards (57% of the total portfolio by count) but only $9.5 million in combined potential value, reflecting the small-dollar, high-frequency nature of classroom rental task orders. The United States Marine Corps places 10 awards valued at $1.3 million. The National Endowment for the Humanities funds seven prime grants with focus on scholarly editing and research. The universe of 21 distinct customer agencies served masks the true concentration: Navy-related work (Navy, NAVSEA, Marine Corps) represents roughly 84 of the 122 total awards. Three awards face recompete within the next twenty-four months, with combined potential value of $248 thousand.

Federal grant work emphasizes humanities scholarship and education. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $2.999 million on February 1, 2026, under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for volumes eight, nine, and ten of The Papers of James Monroe documentary edition, with ultimate completion January 31, 2031. The university received earlier NEH grants for volumes eight and nine under the same project (October 1, 2023, and October 1, 2022). The Division of Undergraduate Education funded a five-year DISCOVER project (Developing Identities in STEM to Cultivate Opportunities That Validate, Empower, and Retain Teachers) awarded July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2028, supporting secondary STEM teacher training in partnership with Germanna Community College and local Virginia public school districts. NAVSEA granted a cooperative agreement for the Mid-Atlantic Tech Bridge program awarded December 8, 2023. The university acts as sub-recipient on three federal grant programs: the Virginia Small Business Development Center (George Mason University as prime recipient, SBA funding) across multiple sub-award cycles (May 14, 2024; September 26, 2025; October 6, 2026); a food waste reduction project under a Virginia Department of Environmental Quality prime grant (May 4, 2026); and Commonwealth of Virginia State Board of Education CARES Act ESSER funding (November 1, 2021).

Activity is flat to declining. The five-year trajectory shows 6 awards in 2022, 6 in 2023, 4 in 2024, 5 in 2025, and 5 through October 2026, with the most recent award (a George Mason University sub-grant) dated October 6, 2026. Combined potential value across the portfolio is $157.9 million, but only $31.2 million (20%) has been obligated, indicating the portfolio skews heavily toward uncommitted IDV ceiling or early-stage grants. The university does not hold a subcontractor role on DoD or civilian agency prime contracts; sub-grant activity is limited to state-level and non-profit prime recipients managing federal pass-through funding.