West Virginia University

West Virginia University, a public 1862 land-grant institution headquartered in Morgantown, West Virginia, delivers federal healthcare services (diagnostic radiology interpretation, physician services across specialties), educational programming (tuition credits for federal prisoner vocational training, student support services, nutrition education), research and development funding, and extension and agricultural services as a prime recipient across federal contracts and grants. The university operates as a primary recipient on grants and holds prime contract and indefinite-delivery positions with no set-aside designations, competing on full-and-open basis across its footprint.

WVU's near-term contract work centers on clinical services to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 is the dominant contracting customer by dollar value: a $9.894 million indefinite-delivery vehicle for diagnostic radiology interpretation services carries multiple delivery orders, the most recent valued at $9.605 million through March 2029, alongside definitive contracts for dermatology services ($1.72 million ceiling, extending through August 2029), ear-nose-and-throat services ($3.29 million ceiling, through November 2028), and ophthalmology services. WVU also operates a poison control center under a $80 thousand blanket purchase agreement with VISN 5 extending through June 2030. The Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons awarded multiple purchase orders—most recently $20.4 thousand in August 2026 and $14.9 thousand in January 2026—for tuition credits funding a Potomac State College horticulture vocational program for incarcerated individuals at Federal Correctional Complex Hazleton. WVU received a $9 thousand purchase order from U.S. Customs and Border Protection in June 2024 for mine safety training for Border Patrol personnel. Combined prime contract potential value runs approximately $20.4 million across active awards.

WVU's grant portfolio is substantial and diverse. The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture anchors the recipient footprint with formula grants supporting the Cooperative Forestry Research program ($1.173 million, CFDA 10.202, through September 2027), the Hatch Act appropriation for agricultural experiment station research ($5.34 million and $1.65 million separate awards, CFDA 10.203), Smith-Lever Extension funding ($9.01 million, CFDA 10.511), and the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program ($1.031 million, CFDA 10.514). USDA also funded project grants including invasive pest management research ($728 thousand, CFDA 10.310), a wool and fiber industry transformation initiative ($418 thousand, CFDA 10.156), and agritourism training tools development ($488 thousand, CFDA 10.210). The Department of Health and Human Services funded a $1.22 million substance use prevention cluster trial through the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279), a $931 thousand e-cigarette dependence and cessation research project (CFDA 93.279), a $554 thousand cooperative agreement for colorectal cancer screening in primary care (CFDA 93.800), and a substantial cooperative agreement supporting health promotion programming across ten rural counties ($2.256 million, CFDA 93.733). The National Institutes of Health funded nursing research on palliative care for heart failure in rural Appalachia (CFDA 93.361) and mental health implementation science in school-based health clinics (CFDA 93.242). The Department of Defense awarded cybersecurity scholarship and capacity-building grants totaling $425 thousand combined (CFDA 12.902). NASA funded a $1.5 million high-performance CPU cluster acquisition and a $465 thousand laser-induced fluorescence diagnostic research project (CFDA 43.014). The National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and Federal Transit Administration provided research infrastructure and capital project funding. The Department of Education awarded TRIO Student Support Services grants ($361 thousand and $424 thousand, CFDA 84.042) and a $750 thousand cyberrange sandbox grant (CFDA 84.116). Combined federal grant recipient activity exceeds $40 million in recent awards.

Activity shows growth: prime and sub awards grew from 44 in 2022 to 77 in 2025, with 28 awards already recorded in 2026. Top customer concentration by award count is dispersed across USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (175 awards), VA VISN 5 (63 awards, $81 million potential value), Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons (51 awards, $1.4 million), and Food and Nutrition Service (44 awards). The veterans healthcare relationship is the single largest dollar anchor; the Bureau of Prisons relationship is characterized by numerous small tuition-credit purchase orders. Sixty-nine awards valued at $21.7 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure across healthcare services, research grants, and extension programming.

WVU operates as prime on 88% of its awards and sub-awards on 12%, positioning it primarily as a direct federal recipient and principal investigator rather than a federal contractor serving larger primes. SCI-reported invoiced federal service contract revenue totaled $2.6 million across FY2022–FY2024, with FY2024 showing $2.1 million across 3.7 FTEs and median government-paid rates of $221.55/hr for professional labor, ranging from $181.54/hr (10th percentile) to $314.36/hr (90th percentile). The university self-performs work with minimal subcontractor engagement on SCI-reportable contracts. Named subsidiaries include West Virginia University Innovation Corporation and West Virginia University at Parkersburg, extending the institutional footprint into technology commercialization and regional higher education delivery.