Cnmi Public School System

Cnmi Public School System, doing business as Cnmi PSS, is a U.S. government entity—the territorial public school district of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands—that operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient, not a contractor. The organization receives formula and project grants from six federal agencies to fund K-12 public education, early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities, school nutrition programs, youth health and education initiatives, and facility infrastructure across the Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan, Tinian, and Rota).

Cnmi PSS holds no federal contracts and operates as a prime grant recipient only; there are no sub-awards in the source footprint. The organization's federal funding concentrates heavily in education and child nutrition formula grants, with secondary exposure to project grants supporting capacity building, literacy improvement, and emergency facility repair. Recent representative awards include an $11.855 million formula grant from the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (CFDA 84.403) for consolidated grants to the insular areas running through September 2027; a $16.3 million formula grant from the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (CFDA 10.555) for the National School Lunch Program through September 2027; a $2.127 million formula grant from the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (CFDA 84.027) for special education services to children with disabilities through September 2027; and a $343,175 project grant from the Department of the Interior Office of Insular Affairs (CFDA 15.875) for facility infrastructure improvements (septic tank replacement, window replacement, and emergency repair contracting) running through September 2029.

Customer concentration clusters tightly around education and child nutrition agencies. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 69% of recent awards: the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (44 awards), the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (44 awards), the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (12 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (12 awards), and the Department of the Interior Insular Affairs (10 awards). Combined dollars obligated across the 177-award footprint total $944.9 million since the earliest recorded award in 1998.

Activity has contracted modestly in the past two years—from 13 awards in 2022 to 11 in 2025 and 4 so far in 2026—suggesting either periodic recompete cycles or administrative consolidation of multi-year grants. Nine awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete opportunity for the organization. Recent project grants underscore evolving institutional priorities: a $814,335 AmeriCorps National Direct program award (CFDA 94.006) through July 2029 to recruit and manage AmeriCorps members for community service; a $400,000 capacity-building project grant from Interior Insular Affairs (CFDA 15.875) through September 2029 to improve federal grants compliance and digital workflow infrastructure; a $333,550 formula grant from HHS Administration for Children and Families (CFDA 93.092) for personal responsibility education for youth ages ten to nineteen through September 2028; and multiple literacy and indigenous-language preservation project grants from the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Cnmi PSS operates as the statutory education agency for the territory and is neither a federal contractor nor a typical nonprofit grant recipient; it is an insular-area government entity exercising education authority delegated by federal statute. The organization's federal footprint is entirely grant-based, with no contracting vehicle exposure, parent IDIQs, BPAs, or GWACs. All twenty customer agencies interact with Cnmi PSS through formula grant programs and discretionary project grants administered through education, health, nutrition, and insular-affairs grant streams.