University Of Arkansas For Medical Sciences receives $5M Congressional Directives grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration

Facilities and equipment for construction and renovation of the uams wellness, health, and education center. - the University Of Arkansas For Medical Sciences (uams) requests $5,000,000 under HRSA-26-107 to establish the wellness, health, and education center, a unified initiative that will renovate approximately 14,050 gross square feet across two existing uams-owned buildings on the uams main campus in little rock, Arkansas. The center is a single coordinated project comprising three integrated sub-components: (1) the maternal-infant health education center, on the first floor of the monroe building; (2) the student, resident, and faculty wellness program, also on the first floor of the monroe building; and (3) the student and employee health services clinic, on the fifth floor of the central building. The maternal-infant health education center (approximately 5,000 sq ft) will create a fully staffed outpatient lactation and maternal education facility, including telemedicine capacity to reach rural arkansans, and will launch a breastfeeding medicine physician fellowship program. The student, resident, and faculty wellness program (approximately 5,000 sq ft) will relocate from the nearly 60-year-old mediplex building and expand mental health treatment services that average more than 4,400 visits per year for uams students, residents, and faculty. The student and employee health services clinic (approximately 4,500 sq ft) will modernize the clinical space used for required employee and student physicals, immunizations, allergy screenings, and tuberculosis testing. The monroe building and the central building are owned by the board of trustees of the university of Arkansas and operated by uams. Uams will record notices of federal interest in the real property records of pulaski county, Arkansas for both buildings, in accordance with 42 u.s.c. § 300S-1A and HRSA grant policy. The $5,000,000 combined budget covers administrative and legal expenses ($23,500), architectural and engineering fees ($274,880), other a&e fees ($25,000), project inspection fees ($97,800), demolition ($109,487), construction ($3,540,037), equipment ($742,320), miscellaneous fees ($4,500), and contingency ($182,476). Uams will procure both a&e services and construction services for all three sub-components through the uams job order contract, which was competitively procured under the Arkansas architects, engineers, and land surveyors selection act (Arkansas code annotated § 19-11-801 et seq.), the federal brooks act, the Arkansas procurement law, and federal procurement standards at 2 cfr 200.317 through 200.327, including 2 cfr 200.320(b)(2). As a state agency, uams will not identify vendors at the application stage. No non-federal match is required, and uams has no other federal awards or applications that overlap with the proposed scope. The period of performance is september 1, 2026 through august 31, 2028.