The University Of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth

The University Of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth Fiscal Services Division, a state-controlled institution of higher learning headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, operates as a comprehensive academic medical center delivering federal correctional healthcare, specialized medical research services, and forensic DNA analysis to the Department of Justice, National Institutes of Health, and related agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open federal contracts and grants. The institution competes predominantly outside formal small-business set-asides, holding 96% of recent awards as prime contractor and holding no SBA certifications; its federal footprint spans 73 distinct customer agencies with activity concentrated heavily within Bureau of Prisons facilities.

The institutional mission centers on correctional healthcare delivery and biomedical research. On the correctional side, UNTHSC provides inpatient care, outpatient services, specialty consultations, dialysis treatment, and comprehensive medical services to incarcerated populations at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Worth and Federal Medical Center Carswell under five primary indefinite delivery contracts. Monthly and quarterly delivery orders to these two facilities alone represent approximately 68% of the institution's federal award count—1,078 awards totaling roughly $792.2 million in combined potential value across the two Bureau of Prisons locations. Recent representative correctional healthcare delivery orders include a $1.62 million comprehensive medical services order from Federal Correctional Institution Fort Worth (September 2026), a $1.2 million specialist-consultation delivery order from Federal Medical Center Carswell (September 2026), and a $573,887 delivery order for in-house after-hours physician services at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Worth (October 2025). Beyond correctional healthcare, UNTHSC holds a $146.3 million National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Indefinite Delivery Contract through July 2031 for pre-clinical infectious disease models (including infectious agents for research); an $833,580 Drug Enforcement Administration Blanket Purchase Agreement through March 2031 for evaluation of abuse potential of synthetic cannabinoids and phytocannabinoids; and a separate $1.03 million DEA BPA for synthetic opioid testing through September 2029. The institution also operates the Center for Human Identification (CHI), a state criminal justice agency providing no-cost forensic DNA analysis to law enforcement agencies across North Central Texas under a $981,387 Bureau of Justice Assistance Formula Grant (FY2024–2026) and receives federal research grant funding across National Institutes of Health programs, National Eye Institute, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, and National Institute on Drug Abuse for biomedical research in areas including keratoconus treatment, gene delivery, diabetic kidney disease, and addiction researcher training.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons' two Fort Worth facilities (Federal Correctional Institution Fort Worth and Federal Medical Center Carswell) together account for 1,078 awards (59% of the institution's total award count) and $792.2 million in combined potential value (76% of total combined potential value). The top five customer agencies account for 95% of combined potential value across all 1,831 awards. National Institutes of Health ranks third by count (90 awards, $3.5 million) but represents a much smaller dollar footprint than the Bureau of Prisons domination. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases carries the dollar weight among NIH programs, with 11 awards totaling $147.5 million combined potential value—almost entirely from the single $146.3 million IDC for infectious disease models.

UNTHSC holds five primary indefinite delivery vehicles supporting the correctional healthcare mission: IDC 15BFA022D00000007 (188 task orders, $57.6 million combined potential value), BPA DJB50507BPA0007 (178 task orders, $50.7 million), IDC DJBP050900000030 (174 task orders, $66.5 million), IDC DJBP050500000079 (109 task orders, $82.3 million), and IDC 15B50921D00000001 (107 task orders, $82.1 million). The DEA's $833,580 synthetic cannabinoid and phytocannabinoid testing BPA and the NIAID's $146.3 million infectious disease model IDC represent the institution's largest research-focused vehicles outside the Bureau of Prisons portfolio. These IDVs enable UNTHSC to issue monthly and quarterly task orders covering inpatient care, outpatient services, specialty consultations, dialysis treatment, and comprehensive medical services delivery to federal correctional populations.

Activity has remained relatively stable at roughly 90–115 awards per fiscal year over the past five years (FY2022–2026), though the most recent year shows a moderation to 69 awards through mid-2026. Awards reaching completion within the next 24 months total 34 with combined potential value of $19.2 million—a modest recompete exposure driven primarily by smaller monthly and quarterly renewal orders at the Bureau of Prisons facilities rather than large IDC recompetes.

SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold totals $2.9 million across FY2022–2025 (FY2022: $921 thousand; FY2024: $2 million; FY2023 and FY2025 show no SCI-reportable invoicing in the source). SCI workforce levels averaged 4.4–4.5 FTEs in years with invoicing activity. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $160 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $208 per hour and entry-level labor at approximately $112 per hour. UNTHSC performs all work internally on SCI-reportable prime contracts—the sub-hours share is 0%, indicating no material reliance on named subcontractors for SCI-covered service delivery. SCI represents only a narrow slice of the institution's federal activity, excluding the massive correctional healthcare delivery (which flows through monthly delivery orders under IDCs) and all grant awards.

UNTHSC operates as a subsidiary of the University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth Health Systems and retains an active Basic Ordering Agreement with the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (effective February 15, 2026 through February 14, 2036) covering integrated medical, scientific, forensic, and research services across Fort Worth and subordinate performance locations. The institution has maintained federal contractor registration in SAM.gov since 2002 and competes predominantly on full-and-open contracts rather than set-asides, positioning itself as a versatile provider of specialized medical and scientific services across correctional healthcare, medical research, and forensic analysis to federal agencies.