University Of Texas At Arlington

The University of Texas at Arlington Continuing Education Division, a division of the University of Texas System, is a state educational institution that delivers occupational safety and health training to federal agencies as a prime contractor (91% of recent awards) and occasionally as a sub-recipient on grants. The division competes entirely in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designation across its federal portfolio.

Customer concentration is extreme and decision-critical. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office accounts for 117 of the 198 total awards (77% of award count) and $3.2 million of the $4.6 million combined potential value. The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration follows distantly with 15 awards valued at $55 thousand, and the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of the Navy represent the remaining slice across seven awards each. This concentration is anchored by a single-award blanket purchase agreement with Bureau of Prisons valued at $768,401.57 and running through 2025, under which the Continuing Education Division has issued 31 task orders since 2020. The recompete cliff is minimal—only one award completing within the next twenty-four months carries $132 thousand in potential value.

The division's capability portfolio centers narrowly on OSHA certification training and occupational safety instruction. Concrete contract work includes a $15,314 firm fixed-price purchase order from an unspecified federal agency (awarded January 27, 2026) for OSHA training classes at UTA's Arlington facility; a $132 thousand delivery order from the Department of Labor's OSHA Region 9 for OSHA 6015 virtual courses running through December 31, 2027 under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule; a $6,999.88 delivery order from the Navy Installations Command for an OSHA 3015 Yorktown training course delivered in Yorktown, Virginia in 2025 under MAS; and multiple standing BPA calls from Bureau of Prisons for specialized OSHA topics including general industry standards, construction safety, electrical safety, machine guarding, confined space entry, and respiratory protection. Training is typically delivered at the division's facilities in Arlington and San Antonio, Texas, though it can be delivered at customer locations. The division also holds a $44,984.88 purchase order from the Mississippi National Guard (awarded 2021) covering OSHA courses including modules 511, 521, 2015, 2045, 2264, and 3095.

The division's vehicle position is modest. Sixty-three task orders flow through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, forty-three through the Professional Services Schedule, thirty-four through an indefinite delivery contract with Bureau of Prisons (DJBP0700COBO089), and thirty-one through a blanket purchase agreement with Bureau of Prisons (15BNAS20ARCA00017). A basic ordering agreement with the Navy (N0001921G0012) supports five task orders. GSA Schedule work and BPA calls with Bureau of Prisons dominate the pipeline; most other vehicles carry minimal volume.

Federal grant activity is secondary to contract work but strategically important. The division is recipient on four prime grants: a Susan Harwood training grant from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (CFDA number not provided) for occupational safety and health training to hard-to-reach worker populations, awarded September 30, 2021 and completed March 31, 2023; a second Susan Harwood grant awarded September 30, 2022 with completion September 30, 2023; a Nursing Student Loans grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Health Professionals (CFDA 93.364) valued at $828 thousand supporting baccalaureate nursing education and training, awarded July 1, 2022 with an ultimate completion date of June 6, 2079; and a Nursing Student Loans closeout and corrections grant from the Bureau of Health Professionals, awarded July 1, 2022 with completion March 5, 2026. The division also acts as a sub-recipient on environmental and water quality grants from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, including petroleum storage tank investigations, public drinking water compliance support, and permitting program assistance, with contract values reaching $549,900. A neuroscience sub-award from New York University (issued February 4, 2025) on paired vagus nerve stimulation research rounds out the sub-recipient footprint.

The division's subcontract role is minimal and recent. It performs as a sub-recipient under Bell Textron Inc. and Bell Boeing Joint Project Office on structural improvements and electrical power upgrades for the Future Vertical Lift program and CMV-22 production long-lead-time items, placing "UTA Student Worker" personnel on awards from April 2025 forward. These appear to be student labor placements rather than substantive subcontractor work.

The GSA labor portfolio reflects the division's instructor-heavy posture. Four active labor categories span bachelor's to master's education, with hourly rates from $98.73 (Project Manager, five years' experience) to $169.24 (Instructor III, master's degree and twelve years' experience). Instructor I ($145.07/hr) and Instructor II ($157.16/hr) positions anchor the spectrum; no security-cleared roles are offered. Activity has been episodic—twenty-eight awards in 2022, falling to four in 2023 and five in 2024, then rebounding to fifteen in 2025 and one in the first month of 2026. The source does not support characterization of this trajectory as secular growth or recompete pressure; the portfolio appears driven by annual Bureau of Prisons BPA task-order placement patterns and discrete GSA Schedule calls rather than expanding market position.