University Of Vermont & State Agricultural College

University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, doing business as University of Vermont, is a public land-grant research institution and tax-exempt nonprofit that operates as a prime recipient and prime contractor across federal research, education, and extension-grant programs, with roughly 2,338 prime federal awards spanning research, STEM workforce development, agricultural extension, and biomedical research services delivered to 199 federal agencies. The institution holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract valued at $98.3 million for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center of Excellence services, awarded in September 2025 through a civilian federal agency in the Southwestern Region, alongside recurring formula grants and project grants from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health that fund multidisciplinary research, extension programming, and educational initiatives. UVM competes full-and-open across federal opportunities with no set-aside designations; the institution's award footprint reflects its land-grant mission to integrate higher education, research, and extension services for Vermont stakeholders and regional communities.

UVM's federal activity centers on biomedical research, agricultural and natural resources science, STEM education, and technical assistance. Representative prime work includes a $1.73 million National Institute on Aging purchase order for DNA extraction and quantification services supporting the REGARDS genome-wide association study (July 2026–June 2029, performed in White River Junction), a $3.41 million NASA Cooperative Agreement for the Vermont Space Grant Consortium supporting STEM workforce development and student engagement with NASA missions (FY 2025–2028), and a $4.09 million USDA Smith-Lever Extension formula grant supporting cooperative extension activities across Vermont's agriculture, food, and forest sectors (FY 2026–2030). Additional prime activity includes federal project grants from NIH institutes funding basic and translational biomedical research—such as a $713.5 thousand National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute award examining myosin-binding protein C mechanisms in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (August 2025–May 2029), and a $654.9 thousand National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke award investigating cerebrovascular dysfunction in preeclampsia (June 2026–May 2030)—as well as NSF CAREER and research infrastructure awards supporting faculty early-career development in areas including quantum-inspired vibration control, protein folding imaging, and machine-learning verification for power systems. UVM also delivers formula grants and project awards supporting agricultural experiment station research, forestry science, nutrition education for low-income populations, and rural emergency medical services workforce development. The institution acts as a sub-recipient and subcontractor in biomedical research consortia; recent sub-awards include participation in the REGARDS longitudinal cardiovascular cohort (as biorepository and biomarker analysis partner with multiple prime grantees), multi-site clinical trial networks, and collaborative NSF and NIH research projects led by peer institutions.

Customer concentration is distributed across federal research and science agencies. The top five customer categories—the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (371 awards), National Science Foundation (230 awards), National Institutes of Health (229 awards), NASA (66 awards with $25.9 million combined potential value), and the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (51 awards with $4.9 million combined potential value)—account for 39% of recent awards by count and 23% of combined potential value. The most-awarded vehicle is an Indefinite Delivery Contract carrying eight task orders; additional active vehicles include USDA and DoD basic ordering agreements. Over the past five years, award activity has ranged from 144 awards in 2022 to 211 in 2024, with 183 awards in 2025 and 75 in the partial year 2026. Approximately 165 awards (combined potential value $13.3 million) complete within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure. Service Contract Inventory captures only $362 thousand in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue (FY2023, 1.4 FTEs on a single prime contract); SCI coverage is minimal and does not reflect the institution's substantial federal research and extension grant revenue or its total federal footprint. UVM demonstrates broad institutional research capacity across life sciences, engineering, environmental science, and agriculture; operates research facilities including the Miller Research and Education Center dairy farm and Vermont Advanced Computing Center; and integrates federal funding with state appropriations and donor support to deliver mission-aligned research, extension, and educational services.