University Of Vermont & State Agricultural College

University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, doing business as University of Vermont, operates as Vermont's only research university and primary federal grant recipient, delivering research, extension education, and educational services across agriculture, life sciences, engineering, and health disciplines to a broad federal customer base as a prime recipient (84% of recent awards) and sub-recipient. UVM is a tax-exempt, 1862 land-grant institution headquartered in Burlington, Vermont; it competes in full-and-open federal solicitations and does not hold SBA set-aside certifications. The institution's federal footprint spans 2,809 awards totaling $195.7 million in combined potential value, though with $2.87 billion in cumulative obligations to UVM as a recipient, reflecting grant cycles spanning multiple years.

UVM's customer base is highly distributed across 200 distinct federal agencies, though concentration by award count and dollars differs markedly. The National Institute of Food and Agriculture leads by volume (371 awards) and dollar value ($25.9 million across NASA Shared Services Center awards); the National Science Foundation (232 awards), the National Institutes of Health (229 awards), and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (120 awards, $12.8 million) form the next tier. This customer concentration is characteristic of a research university receiving formula grants (Hatch Act, Smith-Lever Extension, EFNEP) alongside competitive project grants in basic and applied science. UVM operates no parent IDVs; instead, it participates as a recipient in multiple Navy Basic Ordering Agreements and holds a single-award BOA with the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (established May 15, 2026, extending through May 14, 2036) under which task orders may be placed.

Representative work reflects UVM's multidisciplinary research and extension mission. Recent prime awards include a $1.93 million FDA definitive contract (through September 2031) for environmental sampling and laboratory analysis supporting the Human Foods Program; a $1.73 million National Institute on Aging purchase order (through July 2029) for DNA extraction and quantification services supporting the REGARDS genome-wide association study; a $3.41 million NASA Cooperative Agreement (through June 2029) for the Vermont Space Grant Consortium STEM education program; a $10.81 million USDA NIFA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Cooperative Agreement (through September 2030) coordinating regional grant administration for 12 northeastern states; and a $4.09 million Smith-Lever Extension formula grant (through September 2030) supporting cooperative agricultural extension. Grant work dominates UVM's prime portfolio: competitive project grants from NIH institutes (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Aging) fund biomedical research in infectious disease, cancer, cardiology, and gerontology; NSF awards fund computational modeling, materials science, and environmental research; USDA awards fund agricultural production, forestry, food systems, and rural development research. Formula grants to the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station and UVM Extension support statewide extension programming and applied research on working landscapes. UVM also receives sub-awards as a research collaborator or biospecimen repository partner (e.g., sub-awards from Ohio State University for military suicide prevention research, from University of Texas Health Science Center for the REGARDS study, from research consortia coordinating multi-site epidemiology efforts).

Activity has remained relatively stable over the past five years (187–213 awards per year from 2023–2025), with a sharp decline to 116 awards in 2026 reflecting the dataset's capture lag. In the next 24 months, 162 awards (combined potential value $10.9 million) reach ultimate completion, representing recompete opportunity across extension formula grants, agricultural research, and competitive science grants. SCI-reportable federal service contract activity is minimal ($362 thousand invoiced in FY2023, zero in FY2024–2025), with 1.4–2.0 FTEs delivering prime federal services; SCI data do not capture the bulk of UVM's federal revenue, which flows through research grants and education formula funds. UVM engages sub-recipients on major awards—including Vermont State University on the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships workforce program, Boyce Thompson Institute on plant biology research, and multiple state agencies and nonprofit partners on extension and applied research projects—but does not operate a significant subcontracting footprint to other federal contractors. The institution's position as a land-grant university, its established biomedical and agricultural research capacity, and its role as Vermont's primary research institution position it as a stable, multidisciplinary recipient for federal research and education funding rather than a federal services contractor.