University Of Missouri System

University of Missouri System, operating as the Curators of the University of Missouri, is a state-controlled land-grant public university system that acts as a prime contractor and grant recipient delivering specialized physician services, research and development, educational programming, and training to federal agencies across healthcare, defense, and civilian sectors. The institution competes full-and-open, without set-aside designations, and operates 98% of its recent federal footprint as a prime contractor or grant recipient.

The university's federal capability portfolio centers on three concrete pillars. First, specialty physician services delivered through clinical affiliates at the Columbia VA Medical Center and other VA facilities, including interventional radiology, orthopedics, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, gastroenterology, general surgery, urology, ophthalmology, cardiology, rheumatology, neurology, dermatology, and cardiopulmonary perfusion, priced as fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment delivery orders under multiple single-award indefinite delivery contracts. Second, federal research and development, particularly biomedical and STEM research funded through grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Energy, with work spanning areas such as diabetes intervention epidemiology, special education, literacy instruction, advanced manufacturing, and agricultural biotechnology. Third, educational services including Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps (NROTC) tuition and fees support for midshipmen, graduate fellowship funding through programs such as Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN), and federal student support services through TRIO. The university also provides utilities connection and facilities services, exemplified by a $387,384 definitive contract with Army Corps of Engineers for utilities work at Whiteman Air Force Base.

Customer concentration is extreme and driven by VA healthcare demand. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 15 (VISN 15) alone accounts for 195 awards valued at $131.2 million combined potential value—38% of all awards and 38% of combined potential dollars—through a portfolio of single-award physician services contracts and annual task orders. The broader Department of Veterans Affairs organization accounts for an additional 162 awards valued at $9.8 million. Department of Education customers collectively account for a meaningful secondary concentration through grant funding (Office of Postsecondary Education with 59 awards, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education with grants totaling over $20 million in recent awards). Top-five customers by potential value span $131.2 million (VISN 15), $63.2 million (VISN 16), $9.8 million (VA broadly), and several million each for Navy and Army customers. The portfolio's second-tier ranking reveals significant dollars concentrated at VISN 16, which does not appear as prominently in award-count rankings—this signals that VISN 16 issues fewer but larger physician service contracts than VISN 15. Distinct customer agencies total 88, indicating substantial breadth outside VA.

The university holds multiple parent vehicles. Top vehicles by task-order volume include a VA Basic Ordering Agreement (VA255BO0212) with 39 task orders valued at $13.7 million (physician services), an Indefinite Delivery Contract (V564P1123) with 19 task orders valued at $7.1 million, and additional IDIQs supporting rheumatology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, neurosurgery, gastroenterology, general surgery, cardiology, interventional radiology, otolaryngology, and urology services across annual cycles. The university also holds a massive SHIELD (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense) multiple-award IDIQ with the Missile Defense Agency, awarded January 21, 2026, carrying no specified ceiling and extending through December 28, 2035, covering research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization supporting homeland defense.

Activity has grown modestly in recent years: 16 awards in 2022 rising to 34 in 2024, then declining to 27 in 2025 and 16 in 2026 (through mid-November). The portfolio carries a light recompete cliff, with 14 awards valued at $2.6 million combined potential facing completion in the next twenty-four months—manageable exposure. Combined obligated dollars ($896.3 million) exceed combined potential value ($348.2 million), indicating the source data spans a deep historical slice with many closed-out or fully expended awards.

The university's NAICS concentration reflects its physician services footprint: Offices of Physicians (158 awards) dominates, followed by Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (149 awards), General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (38 awards), and Medical Laboratories (30 awards). Primary PSC codes track the same: Medical-Radiology (79 awards), Reference Laboratory Testing (79 awards), Education/Training tuition services (71 awards), and Medical-Surgery (45 awards).

Subcontractor work is minimal (2% of awards). Named subs include roles under BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Inc. on waveform-directed energy research and high-power microwave development (WARDEN program), and work under CACI Technologies LLC for engineering, training, and modeling/simulation support. Grant sub-award activity reflects research collaboration—Northern Illinois University co-coordinates a special education doctoral scholar initiative; University of Miami appears as co-investigator on NSF-funded research; American Institutes for Research conducts evaluation work on literacy and teacher professional development grants; and Missouri Department of Public Safety receives pass-through funding for emergency medical care and substance abuse program coordination.

The university's federal profile is sustained by its position as the primary healthcare services provider to Columbia VA Medical Center and other VA facilities, supplemented by its research enterprise across STEM, education, and health disciplines, and its educational mission supporting federal officer training through NROTC. Physician services constitute the dominant revenue stream and relationship anchor, structured through flexible task-order vehicles that enable the VA to modulate annual demand while maintaining cost predictability via fixed-price contracting. The SHIELD IDIQ represents significant potential upside if task orders materialize against that vehicle.