Department Of Attorney General Maine

The Department of Attorney General Maine, a U.S. state government entity operating as a prime recipient on federal grants and as a contractor on federal service delivery, receives federal funding from the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Food and Drug Administration for law enforcement, regulatory compliance, victim services, and fraud investigation work within Maine.

The Department of Attorney General Maine is a child agency under the State of Maine and operates as a state government entity without SBA certifications. It competes exclusively under full-and-open awards with no set-aside designations. The agency's federal footprint spans sixty awards over twenty years, with recent activity concentrated in grant funding from DOJ and HHS. A single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the FDA, valued at $3.755 million through September 29, 2029, anchors the agency's contract work for tobacco retail compliance and enforcement inspections in Maine.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Justice. The top five customer agencies account for 78% of award count, led by DOJ Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance (11 awards), DOJ Office of Justice Programs (10 awards), and DOJ Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (10 awards), followed by HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (8 awards) and HHS Food and Drug Administration (7 awards, $7.9 million combined potential value). The FDA contract dominates the potential-value ranking despite representing a smaller share of award volume, reflecting the agency's shift toward larger, longer-term delivery orders rather than discrete annual grants.

The agency's grant work, representing the majority of its federal footprint by count, spans four primary federal programs. The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit program (CFDA 93.775) provides recurring formula grants from CMS for investigating and prosecuting Medicaid provider fraud and patient abuse in health facilities and board and care settings; the most recent award, made October 1, 2025, carries $2.46 million in potential value and runs through September 30, 2026. The Victims of Crime Act Victim Compensation Formula Grant program (CFDA 16.573) from the DOJ Office for Victims of Crime funds the Maine Victims' Compensation Program and has generated multiple awards totaling several million dollars across recent fiscal years. The John R. Justice Grant Program (CFDA 16.702) from DOJ Bureau of Justice Assistance provides loan-repayment relief to qualifying state prosecutors through the Maine Prosecutors Association, with awards allocating one hundred percent of grant funds to student loan relief. The Office on Violence Against Women's Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders program (CFDA 16.590) funded a $499 thousand project grant awarded October 1, 2024, and running through September 30, 2027, to hire an interpersonal violence prosecutor and assess prosecutorial capacity across Maine's eight districts for domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking cases.

The agency also received a cooperative agreement from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (CDC) for the Maine Violent Death Reporting System, a multi-year violent-death surveillance initiative spanning September 2022 through August 2027. A separate DOJ Victims of Crime cooperative agreement, awarded October 1, 2021, valued at $598 thousand and running through September 30, 2024, supported development of the Claims Application Management System (CAMS) to modernize the Maine Victims' Compensation Program application process.

On the contract side, the FDA's single-award IDC for tobacco retail compliance and enforcement inspections has generated three delivery orders, with the most recent issued May 30, 2026, for $334 thousand and due May 29, 2027. Prior delivery orders closed out or neared completion through mid-2025.

Activity has declined in recent years. Awards per year fell from six in 2024 to two in 2025 and one in 2026 to date. Within the next twenty-four months, five awards with combined potential value of $334 thousand face ultimate completion, primarily the current FDA tobacco inspection delivery order. SCI-reported invoiced revenue across federal service contracts above the $150 thousand reporting threshold totals $54 thousand in FY2024, delivered by roughly 0.4 FTEs at a median government-paid rate of approximately $69.93 per hour. The agency operates as a prime on SCI-reportable contracts with no named subcontractors on the reported records.

The agency acts as a sub-recipient on two grant sub-awards from the Maine Department of Public Safety, both directed to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) operating within the Attorney General's office for medical examiner training, certification, and equipment purchases funded through Coverdell Forensic Sciences grant pass-throughs.