University Physicians, Incorporated

University Physicians, Incorporated, doing business as University of Colorado Medicine, is a non-profit academic medical group headquartered in Aurora, Colorado, that provides specialty physician services, expert witness testimony, and pathology assessments to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations. The organization operates across 16 federal customer agencies but maintains a dominant concentration in Veterans Affairs specialty care delivery.

Customer concentration is extreme and stable. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 accounts for 112 awards (74% of total awards by count) and $65.3 million (61% of combined potential value), making VISN 19 the vendor's overwhelmingly primary customer. The remaining top customers are niche: the Department of Justice US Attorney's Offices (22 awards, $389 thousand), the Drug Enforcement Administration (20 awards, $107 thousand), the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (14 awards, $167 thousand), and the DOJ Civil Division (7 awards, $64 thousand). University Physicians rarely competes in awards under $100 thousand; its revenue concentration is anchored by multi-million-dollar VA physician-services contracts.

Work performed splits between clinical specialty services and expert witness support across multiple medical disciplines. Representative VA contracts include a $5.2 million definitive contract with VISN 19 for cardiothoracic surgeon and mid-level provider services (February 2026 through January 2031), a $2.6 million definitive for thoracic physician services (September 2023 through August 2028), a $1.4 million definitive for orthopedic services (November 2025 through October 2030), and a $1.2 million definitive for ophthalmology retina and oculoplastic physician services (January 2026 through December 2030). Expert witness work flows through the US Attorney's Offices and DEA at much lower dollar values: a $55 thousand purchase order for expert witness services in child abuse cases (December 2023), a $37.9 thousand purchase order for expert witness services (January 2026), and recurring $3–$18 thousand purchase orders from DEA for pharmacist and medical expert review of pharmacy and Prescription Drug Monitoring Program records. University Physicians also holds a single-award indefinite-delivery contract with VISN 19 for $1.2 million in ophthalmology physician services (January 2026 through December 2030) and a blanket purchase agreement with VISN 19 for prostate whole mounting pathology services with a $61.9 thousand ceiling through September 2026.

Activity has declined from 15 awards in 2022 to 5 in 2026, though this recent-year drop reflects the source's data cutoff in late September 2026 rather than a sustained downturn. Combined potential value across all awards totals $107.8 million, with $68.2 million obligated (63% of potential). Eight awards valued at $6.4 million combined face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure concentrated in VISN 19 specialty contracts.

Service Contract Inventory data captures SCI-reportable prime contracts above the $150 thousand threshold across fiscal years 2022–2025. SCI invoiced revenue totaled $5.6 million (FY2023: $1.3 million; FY2024: $2.3 million; FY2025: $1.9 million), with the organization deploying roughly 7.8–9.7 federal FTEs annually on these reportable contracts. University Physicians self-performs all hours with zero subcontractor engagement across SCI records. Government-paid hourly rates on federal service contracts range from a 10th percentile of $33.43 per hour through a median of $72.17 per hour to a 90th percentile of $408.04 per hour, reflecting a wide spread driven by the mix of clinical specialties and expert witness consulting work at different seniority levels. This rate posture is consistent with high-complexity specialty physician services and litigation support expertise.

University Physicians operates predominantly as a clinical delivery organization, performing its own physician and expert services without systematic subcontractor reliance. The vendor holds no federal contract IDVs, GWACs, or multi-agency vehicles; all work routes through direct agency definitive contracts, delivery orders under VA indefinite-delivery contracts, blanket purchase agreements, and individual purchase orders. The top parent vehicles are VA-specific indefinite-delivery and BPA vehicles: a single-award IDC for ophthalmology (8 task orders, $2.7 million), a VA IDC for physician services (6 task orders, $124 thousand), another VA IDC (5 task orders, $292 thousand), and a VA IDC for specialty physician services (5 task orders, $1.3 million). This vehicle posture signals that University Physicians does not compete on government-wide contract vehicles and has no teaming relationships with larger primes; it bids directly to agencies as a standalone medical provider.