University Of Miami

University of Miami Research Administration – Coral Gables Division, doing business as University of Miami Coral Gables, is a tax-exempt private research university that acts as a prime recipient on federal grants and contracts across life sciences, health, engineering, and education domains, with no SBA set-asides and no federal contract vehicle holdings. The institution competes on full-and-open federal grants and contracts, drawing from 119 distinct customer agencies and anchored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Science Foundation, and NASA.

The university's work portfolio spans epidemiological research, biomedical sciences, materials engineering, STEM education, and public health interventions. Recent representative awards include a $21 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for the Hispanic Community Health Study – Study of Latinos Miami Field Center (award date November 30, 2024, running through November 29, 2032); a $13.4 million delivery order under that same IDC for core study operations; a $2.931 million definitive contract with the Defense Health Agency for mindfulness-based attention training in Special Operations Forces (awarded February 6, 2026); a $3 million National Science Foundation National Research Traineeship grant for coastal resilience graduate training (September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2030); and a $771,351 Army Corps of Engineers contract for development of an assessment tool for pump and motor efficiencies under the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program. The university also holds a $1.4 million NSF award for advanced regional networking capabilities serving four small Florida universities through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, and a $963 thousand NOAA award for SeaHive coastal protection system validation.

Customer concentration is steep on grants. The NHLBI accounts for the largest single share of combined potential value across the portfolio at $124.7 million (25 awards), followed by NASA Shared Services Center at $13.2 million (45 awards), and the National Science Foundation at an unspecified amount across 191 awards—the single largest customer by award count. The National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences round out the top five. Recent activity shows 45 new prime awards in the first ten months of 2026, 75 in 2025, and 130 in 2024, indicating growth and sustained demand. Fifty-one awards face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing $4.5 million in combined potential value and a modest recompete exposure.

On the contract side, the university holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $21 million with the NHLBI (IDC 75N92025D00009), with a delivery order of $13.4 million already issued. Service Contract Inventory data—a partial view capturing only federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold—shows eleven prime SCI records invoicing $22.1 million across fiscal years 2022–2025, with FY2023 representing the peak ($6.9 million across 53.8 FTEs). Government-paid median hourly rates across prime SCI contracts run $65.02/hr, with high-skill labor pricing extending to $478.63/hr at the 90th percentile. The university does not employ subcontractors on SCI-reportable service contracts; sub-hours share averages zero percent.

The Research Administration – Coral Gables Division operates as a child entity of the broader University of Miami parent organization (UEI GNKGFFKFWXN7), which itself holds parent status in the federal system. The division receives sub-awards from prime recipients including the University of Pennsylvania, University of Florida, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and others across health disparities, infectious disease, oncology, and engineering research. The university acts as a research performer and clinical trial site across multiple NIH-funded consortium agreements and cooperative agreements, particularly in HIV, mental health, cancer survivorship, and Alzheimer's disease research networks. The institution competes on merit in full-and-open federal research competitions; it does not hold or pursue set-aside contract vehicles.