University Of The Incarnate Word

University Of The Incarnate Word, a private Catholic university and Hispanic-serving institution based in San Antonio, Texas, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants (96% of its federal footprint) and a federal contract prime for educational and training services, competing in full-and-open procurement without set-aside designations. The university is designated a minority institution and serves an undergraduate population exceeding 4,000 students, with 60% from educationally underrepresented groups, 26% first-generation college students, and 48% Pell Grant recipients.

UIW's federal contract portfolio centers on tuition and educational services delivered to military personnel and defense-affiliated students. The Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery dominates the contract footprint, accounting for 37 awards valued at $4.6 million combined potential value, followed by the Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command with 32 awards at $4.4 million. Representative contract work includes a $792,000 definitive contract awarded September 2025 by the U.S. Army's Training and Doctrine Command to deliver six general education credit hours in undergraduate written and oral communication to Army students enrolled in the Radiology Technology Advanced Individual Training Course at Fort Sam Houston, running through September 2028. UIW also holds recurring delivery orders from the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery for tuition and fees, including orders valued at $343,403 (January 2026), $340,890 (July 2025), and $215,872 (April 2025), each firm fixed-price and performed in San Antonio. These tuition orders support professional development and continuing education for service members, particularly in medical training and respiratory therapy specialties. UIW's contract work sits on two principal Navy indefinite delivery vehicles — Basic Ordering Agreement N0018918GZ010 with 39 task orders valued at $5.7 million combined potential value, and Air Force Indefinite Delivery Contract FA301615D0002 with 15 task orders at $1.3 million — alongside smaller Air Force and other defense IDCs.

UIW's federal grant portfolio spans research, workforce development, and student support. The university holds recent grants from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences ($291,008 TRIO Student Support Services award effective September 2025 through August 2026, funding the "SSS Students Taking Flight for Academic and Professional Success" initiative), the National Science Foundation ($399,846 collaborative research grant for the EPIIC EMERGE cohort running through September 2026, lead institution role with Kettering University, University of Northern Colorado, and Western Carolina University as partners), and the Bureau of Health Professionals ($1,049,408 Nurse Education Practice Quality and Retention award through September 2025 for the "Closing the Gaps in Acute Care Nursing" program). Earlier research grants include a $135,983 NSF Geosciences award (July 2022–June 2025) for "A Geochemical Approach to Quantifying the Magnitude of Strain and Fluid Flow Along the Subduction Interface," and biomedical research funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the National Eye Institute for optometric education and clinical research (T35 grant through April 2027). UIW also received a $291,008 grant for a liquid chromatography system with fraction collector from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (March 2024–February 2025) to support undergraduate research in protein purification and biochemistry. In its sub-recipient role, UIW participates in grant work under St. Mary's University of San Antonio on a Louis Stokes Minority Pre-Alliance (LSAMP) initiative (March 2023 subaward) and under the Texas Workforce Commission on College Credit for Heroes capacity-building (June 2023 subaward), with additional sub-awards from Ohio State University for a vision research study (November 2025) and from Texas Division of Emergency Management for emergency preparedness infrastructure (July 2022).

Activity has moderated in recent years — 15 awards in 2022 declining to 7 in both 2024 and 2025 — with five awards completing within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete. The combined obligated dollars ($126.7 million) substantially exceed the combined potential value ($11.3 million), reflecting mature obligation patterns across tuition-delivery contracts spanning multiple fiscal years. UIW competes in the open market across its federal portfolio with no set-aside designations, positioning itself as a full-and-open education and research services provider to civilian and military federal agencies.