Attorney General's Office, Mississippi

Attorney General's Office, Mississippi, a state government entity and the chief law enforcement agency for Mississippi, acts as a federal grant recipient and a federal contract prime on a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Food and Drug Administration for tobacco retail compliance inspections across the state.

The Attorney General's Office operates as a child entity under the State of Mississippi and competes on full-and-open federal grants and contracts with no set-aside designations. Recent federal activity centers on law enforcement, public health administration, and victim services delivery. The office holds a $6.9 million single-award IDC with the FDA running through September 2029 for systematic inspection of tobacco retailers to ensure compliance with federal tobacco product manufacturing, marketing, and distribution regulations. Under this vehicle, three delivery orders have been issued to date: a $924,299.98 task order awarded September 18, 2024, with completion through May 26, 2025; an $816,621.12 task order awarded May 29, 2025, with completion through May 29, 2026; and a $837,434.88 task order awarded May 30, 2026, extending through May 29, 2027. All work is performed on a cost-no-fee basis with place of performance in Jackson, Mississippi (and one task order supporting operations in Silver Spring, Maryland).

The vendor's federal customer base concentrates across the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs (25 awards total), the FDA (19 awards, $19.1 million combined potential value), the DOJ Victims of Crime office (10 awards), the DOJ Bureau of Justice Assistance (9 awards), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (8 awards), which together account for 84 percent of the 85 recent prime and sub awards tracked. Grant work dominates the portfolio and includes a $5.8 million FY2026 formula grant from CMS under the State Medicaid Fraud Control Units program (CFDA 93.775) to investigate and prosecute Medicaid provider fraud and patient abuse or neglect; a $416,214 cooperative agreement from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the Missing Children's Assistance program (CFDA 16.543) to continue leading the Mississippi Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force since 2007; recurring formula grants from the Victims of Crime office (CFDA not specified) to enhance state victim compensation payments; and formula grants from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA not specified) to administer the John R. Justice Student Loan Repayment Program, which encourages qualified attorneys to pursue prosecutor and public defender careers across the state. Recent grant work also includes a $375,000 project grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance for intellectual property enforcement targeting counterfeit opioid crimes across a twenty-four-month period.

Activity has been uneven. Award volume peaked in 2022 with five awards, declined to three in 2023, recovered to six in 2024, dropped to four in 2025, and shows one award to date in 2026. Combined potential value sits at $19.1 million across all awards; combined dollars obligated total $113.2 million, reflecting contract modifications and grant continuation funding. Three awards (combined potential value $837,000) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete.

The Attorney General's Office acts as prime on 83 of 85 recent awards (98 percent) and as a sub-recipient on two grant sub-awards from the Mississippi State Department of Health (both VOCA victim compensation continuation awards). SCI-reported invoiced revenue in federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $3.3 million in FY2024 across 29.3 FTEs delivered to the federal government; prior-year SCI activity was not captured in the source data. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts run a narrow range, with a median of $55.73 per hour, a tenth percentile of $54.56 per hour, and a ninetieth percentile of $56.89 per hour. The office does not use subcontractors on SCI-reportable prime contracts (zero percent average sub-hours share).