University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, operating through its Kenan-Flagler Business School, is a state-controlled public research institution that delivers executive education, leadership development, and specialized consulting services to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (92% of recent awards) under full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations.

UNC Chapel Hill is classified under NAICS 611310 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools) and competes across a broad portfolio of education and training services. The institution holds a diversified federal prime contract footprint spanning 205 awards with combined potential value of $155.1 million, concentrated heavily in Department of Defense components and civilian research agencies. Most recently, UNC Chapel Hill received a $175,000 sole-source purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center on November 2, 2026, for the Understanding Aerospace Industry Course, a four-and-a-half-day instructor-led program for senior program and project leaders. In the same fiscal window, the institution received a $1.416 million firm fixed-price purchase order from the Department of the Navy's Naval Supply Systems Command on July 13, 2026, to design and deliver two customized four-day executive development programs (DON Executive Leadership Program and Career Executive Leadership Program) plus annual leadership workshops through July 2030. A representative $2.88 million firm fixed-price purchase order from the Bureau of Naval Personnel on May 1, 2024, procures three five-and-a-half-day strategic thinking course sessions annually through October 2029 supporting the Navy Flag Officer Development program.

Customer concentration is split across Navy and Army, with the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command anchoring the dollars at $61.3 million potential value across 6 awards, while the top five customers by award count (Navy, Army Materiel Command, Air Force, Navy Secretary Assistant, and NIEHS) account for 35% of awards. The Navy Secretary's Assistant for Administration places high volume at 14 awards worth $7.2 million potential value, reflecting recurring executive training delivery. This split signals that UNC Chapel Hill sustains both large-dollar strategic vehicles with Navy and Army procurement commands and smaller, recurring training task orders across Navy and Air Force line organizations.

The institution holds multiple indefinite delivery vehicles with significant task-order activity. The Air Force IDC (FA701421D0012) has generated 19 task orders worth $5.1 million combined potential value, primarily for senior leader courses valued around $273,500 each. A Navy multiple-award IDC (N0018919DZ033) has produced 13 task orders worth $4.7 million. Most notably, UNC Chapel Hill holds a $31.976 million multiple-award IDC awarded by Naval Supply Systems Command on April 23, 2025, designated for educational services running through April 22, 2030, under the U008 Educational Services Multiple Award Contract vehicle. A $4.485 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Department of Defense's Land and Maritime agency (awarded April 3, 2023, through April 2, 2028) procures Industry Partnership Management Course and related training, with delivery orders issued in 2023–2026 ranging from $406,700 to $482,346. An $8 million single-award IDC from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded September 23, 2025, procures maintenance of canine models of human bleeding disorders, with a delivery order of $7.222 million issued the same date. UNC Chapel Hill also holds a Basic Ordering Agreement with U.S. Special Operations Command running through May 2034 for educational services with a zero-ceiling-value structure (individual task orders determine value).

Award activity has grown from 8 in 2022 to a peak of 26 in 2024, then moderated to 20 in 2025 and 14 in 2026 (year-to-date), suggesting sustained but nonaccelerating demand. Three awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $8.4 million, representing a modest recompete exposure relative to the broader $155.1 million portfolio.

UNC Chapel Hill operates predominantly as a prime contractor; across its 92% prime share, the portfolio spans 111 awards under NAICS 611310 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools), 28 under Professional and Management Development Training, and subordinate education support categories. The institution serves as a subcontractor on a smaller footprint, with sub-award relationships to Peraton Inc. (multiple Information Advantage Enterprise training task orders from 2024–2025), Torch Technologies Inc. (Understanding Defense Industry workshops for the Future Vertical Lift program office, 2023–2025), and Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (executive development services on the EDITS program, July 2025). SCI-reported invoicing from federal service contracts shows minimal reportable activity ($0 invoiced across FY2022–FY2025 in the SCI dataset), reflecting that most UNC Chapel Hill work is structured as training purchases, fixed-price delivery orders, and research contracts rather than labor-hour service contracts subject to SCI reporting thresholds. The institution also participates in federal grant sub-awards, including subaward work on coastal and ocean observing programs through the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association and cardiovascular research with Morgan State University and University of South Florida.

UNC Chapel Hill's 224-award portfolio across fifty-five distinct federal agencies demonstrates institutional depth in executive leadership development, strategic thinking seminars, defense industry education, and specialized federal workforce training, with particular strength in recurring Navy and Air Force senior leader course delivery and growing exposure to civil-sector research and medical training support through NIH and HHS vehicles.