Yale University

Yale University's Office of Cooperative Research (operating through Yale University University Properties Division) is a non-profit educational institution that provides biomedical research services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on an indefinite delivery and delivery order basis, competing full-and-open without set-aside designation. Yale is a private research university headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut, with 214 recent federal awards (99% as prime, 1% as sub) carrying combined potential value of $67.2 million and obligations of $13.2 million.

The Office of Cooperative Research's federal footprint concentrates almost entirely on the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 (VISN 1), which accounts for 85 awards and $39.4 million in combined potential value—roughly 59% of all recent awards and 59% of total potential value. A secondary but material customer is the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service, which places facility-lease task orders totaling 44 awards and $10.5 million in potential value. Additional customer agencies include the Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service, Forest Service, and related components. The top five customers represent 62% of award count and 74% of potential value, indicating substantial concentration in VA and GSA work.

Yale's concrete capabilities center on genomic research services—specifically genomics library preparations, DNA and RNA extraction, DNA methylation sequencing, RNA-sequencing, and mass spectrometry analysis—performed at research facilities in West Haven and Hamden, Connecticut. Representative contracts include a $7.49 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with VA VISN 1 for genomic research services (ultimate completion August 2026), a $1.268 million delivery order with VA VISN 1 for genomic analysis (awarded July 2022), and a $905 thousand delivery order with VA VISN 1 for genomic services (awarded May 2024). The Office of Cooperative Research also holds two smaller indefinite delivery contracts with VA VISN 1 for diagnostic imaging services: a $568 thousand vehicle for PET scans (completed August 2023) and a $376 thousand vehicle for MRI scans (completed August 2023). Additionally, Yale executes statistical analysis and genomic analysis service delivery orders at smaller values ($15 thousand to $447 thousand) under these VA vehicles. GSA work consists entirely of facility lease task orders under Basic Ordering Agreement GS01B03931, which carries 119 task orders valued at $23.8 million combined potential and represents rent and related real-estate costs for Yale properties.

Yale places task orders primarily under four indefinite delivery vehicles. The GSA Basic Ordering Agreement GS01B03931 anchors 119 task orders and $23.8 million in combined potential value. The VA Indefinite Delivery Contract 36C24121D0019 supports 20 task orders valued at $18.7 million combined potential. The VA Indefinite Delivery Contract VA24117D0074 holds 29 task orders at $2.1 million combined potential. Two additional VA indefinite delivery contracts (VA24115D0148 and VA24115D0149) together support 20 task orders valued at $3.5 million combined potential.

Activity has declined markedly: 11 awards in 2022, 5 in 2023, 6 in 2024, 3 in 2025, and 4 through mid-2026. Within the next twenty-four months, six awards (combined potential value $712 thousand) reach ultimate completion and face recompete exposure. The VA genomic research contract, the primary value driver, expires August 31, 2026, and will require recompete. Yale competes full-and-open; the source contains no evidence of set-aside participation.

The Office of Cooperative Research reports to Yale University (the parent entity, UEI FL6GV84CKN57), a non-profit private research university. Yale holds grant sub-awards from prime grantees such as the University of New Haven, where Yale personnel provide qualitative research methodology and site-selection support. The source records no significant federal grant prime awards under the Office of Cooperative Research legal entity; federal grant activity appears concentrated at the parent Yale University level rather than through the University Properties Division subsidiary.