University Of Rochester

The University of Rochester, a private research university headquartered in Rochester, New York, receives federal research funding and delivers educational services as both a prime recipient and subrecipient across contract and grant mechanisms, with no SBA designations. The institution operates as a tax-exempt nonprofit entity spanning three registered subsidiaries: Highland Hospital of Rochester, the University of Rochester core entity, and the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics.

The university's federal footprint spans 4,896 awards (90% prime, 10% sub) valued at $552.6 million in combined potential with $7.64 billion in total obligated amounts, reflecting heavy utilization of renewal and funding mechanisms. Recent activity shows 346 awards in 2024 declining to 97 through early August 2026, with 353 awards completing in the next twenty-four months carrying $17.4 million in potential value—a significant recompete window across education, research, and clinical service categories. The National Institutes of Health dominates the portfolio, anchoring $237.9 million across 140 awards in infectious diseases, neuroscience, cancer biology, and biomedical research; the Department of Energy Office of Science ($58.2 million, 68 awards) follows, supporting fundamental physics and materials science. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 ranks third by potential value ($49.6 million, 185 awards) and leads by award count, reflecting a sustained clinical services relationship centered on dermatology physician services, NROTC tuition support, and prosthetic limb procurement.

The university competes predominantly under full-and-open procedures across all vehicle types—GWACs (absent from the portfolio), agency-wide IDIQs, and single-award contracts—without relying on set-aside categories. Named vehicles include the Navy's Indefinite Delivery Contract N0014006G0050 (83 task orders, $25.3 million) and Basic Ordering Agreement N0018918GZ043 (58 task orders, $15.1 million) for NROTC educational delivery; the VA's VISN 2 Artificial Limb IDIQ (33 task orders, $374 thousand); and the VISN 2 Dermatology Services single-award indefinite delivery vehicle ($237.6 thousand, extending through June 2026). Across SCI-reportable contracts, invoiced federal service revenue totaled $1 million in FY2022 across 54.1 FTEs, with 13% average subcontractor engagement; government-paid rates cluster around $80.81/hr on prime labor.

Recent representative work includes a $7.27 million DARPA definitive contract for scalable analog neural network research with UCLA and Rice University as subcontractors (prime, June 2025); a $3.75 million NSF grant for balanced science program execution across lunar, Mars, and emerging field research (recipient, January 2025); a $1.88 million Defense Health Agency grant for Baby Duchenne developmental outcomes research (recipient, September 2025); a $1.68 million NIAMS grant investigating tubular aggregate myopathy pathophysiology (recipient, September 2025); and a $6.94 million NCATS Cooperative Agreement funding the Clinical and Translational Science Institute CTSA Hub as a translational research engine removing clinical and implementation barriers (recipient, August 2025, with Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency sub-awardee). The university also serves as recipient and sub-recipient across NIH program projects, cooperative agreements, and project grants spanning neuroscience, immunology, aging, cancer immunotherapy, and environmental health, with named sub-awardees including UC Santa Cruz, Cornell University, Brown University, and multiple medical centers conducting collaborative research in dementia, Alzheimer's disease mechanisms, musculoskeletal disease, and translational cancer biology.

The portfolio is concentrated in R&D across basic research (244 awards in physical, engineering, and life sciences domains), education and training (213 awards in college tuition and professional development), and clinical research services (73 awards in physician offices and medical instrumentation). Activity spans 165 distinct federal agencies from core cabinet departments and NIH institutes to NASA, NSF, DARPA, DoE, and specialized VA networks, positioning the University of Rochester as a major federal research institution with particular depth in biomedical and translational science, fundamental physics, and healthcare delivery innovation.