Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, doing business as Vanderbilt Forensic Psychiatry, provides expert witness testimony, forensic psychiatric consultation, and legal support services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (88% of recent awards), operating on a non-set-aside basis out of Nashville, Tennessee. The organization is a for-profit corporate entity structured as a private university or college, classified primarily under NAICS 541512 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) and NAICS 622210 (Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals), with the majority of its federal work falling under PSC code Support-Professional: Expert Witness.

Vanderbilt's federal customer base concentrates heavily on military legal and personnel support. The Department of the Army Forces Command dominates the footprint, accounting for 37 awards (57% of the total award count) with combined potential value of $807 thousand. The top five customer agencies account for 83% of recent awards and 95% of combined potential value, led by Army Forces Command, followed by the Army Training and Doctrine Command (6 awards, $110 thousand), the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard (2 awards, $76 thousand), the Army Headquarters Deputy Chief of Staff Personnel Army Recruiting Command (4 awards, $50 thousand), and the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Offices (5 awards, $38 thousand). Recent prime contract work includes a $36.3 thousand firm fixed-price engagement with the Coast Guard on February 13, 2026, serving as confidential expert consultant for the federal litigation matter United States v. ISC Armando Rodriguez with completion January 31, 2027; a $40 thousand Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from the Coast Guard on March 14, 2025, for pre-trial legal assistance; and a $58.8 thousand Army contract on March 3, 2023, for in-court consultation and case review work. Vanderbilt places ten task orders under the Army's Blanket Purchase Agreement W9124812A0018, generating $71 thousand in combined potential value.

Activity has remained flat across recent years — two to three awards annually from 2022 through 2026 — with only one award scheduled for completion inside the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $36 thousand). In its subcontractor role, Vanderbilt participates in research grants as a sub-recipient under prime grantees including the University of South Florida (Data Coordinating Center for Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet, April 2026), the University of Tennessee (Fungal-bacterial dynamics driving dysregulated host responses and lethal synergism, February 2026), and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Data Management and Portal for the INCLUDE Project, multiple awards from June 2024 onward providing clinical and biospecimen data integration support using FHIR-enabled infrastructure and REDCap). Service Contract Inventory reporting reflects minimal SCI-reportable activity—only 0.1 FTEs in FY2022 across four SCI subcontract records—indicating that Vanderbilt's federal services engagement sits mostly below the $150 thousand SCI reporting threshold or outside the SCI scope. Vanderbilt's capability portfolio centers on forensic psychiatric expert consultation, trial support, and legal proceeding assistance to military justice and federal attorney proceedings, with emerging research-infrastructure expertise on the grant side focused on health data standardization and clinical trial data management.