Department Of State Police Michigan

Department Of State Police Michigan, doing business as Michigan State Police, is a U.S. state government entity that acts as a recipient on federal grants and provides law enforcement information-network access and criminal justice data services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on small-dollar purchase orders. The organization holds no federal contract vehicles and competes exclusively on full-and-open basis across a 44-agency customer set. Its federal award footprint is dominated by grant work — 568 of 611 total awards (93%) are grant prime awards — with the remaining 43 awards split between five small connectivity and data-access purchase orders to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the FBI Headquarters Division, each in the $26,000 to $99,000 range, and grant sub-awards where MSP passes federal funds to local law enforcement task forces and criminal justice partners.

MSP's customer concentration sits with the Department of Justice and the Department of Transportation. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 61% of awards: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (134 awards), the Bureau of Justice Assistance (114 awards), the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (47 awards), the Office of Justice Programs (41 awards), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (39 awards, $233 thousand combined potential value). The top five by potential value cover only 37% of combined dollars and are led by the FBI Headquarters Division (12 awards, $319 thousand), the DEA (39 awards, $233 thousand), and the Chief Procurement Officer of the Department of Homeland Security (7 awards, $139 thousand). The rankings diverge sharply — NHTSA dominates both volume and dollars in the award count view but appears only in volume rank by value, reflecting that MSP's NHTSA work consists of numerous small formula grants rather than high-dollar single awards.

The grant portfolio centers on highway safety formula grants and criminal justice formula grants. NHTSA awards include Section 402 State and Community Highway Safety grants (CFDA 20.600), Section 405 national priority programs addressing impaired driving, distracted driving, occupant protection, motorcyclist safety, nonmotorized safety, roadside death prevention, and traffic records improvement (CFDA 20.616), and the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program formula grant (CFDA 20.608). DOJ Bureau of Justice Assistance and Office of Justice Programs awards include Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Block Grants and formula awards (CFDA 16.738, 16.837), the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners Program (CFDA 16.593), DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program funding, support for forensic science improvements, the Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program (CFDA 16.742), crisis intervention and de-escalation training, and support for multijurisdictional drug enforcement task forces across Michigan. MSP also receives DOJ grants for criminal history improvement (CFDA 16.554, 16.554 NCHIP Cooperative Agreement), sex offender registry enhancement (CFDA 16.750, Adam Walsh Act), online crimes against children task force operations (CFDA 16.543), and victim services under the Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA 16.590, 16.060). DOJ grants for grant-eligible programs have historically supported projects like the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Anti-Heroin Task Force (CFDA 16.710), the Anti-Methamphetamine Program (CFDA 16.072), virtual reality de-escalation training expansion across seven MSP districts, cold case homicide investigation and DNA analysis, sexual assault kit inventory and investigation support with Michigan State University partnerships, and law enforcement mental health and wellness initiatives. Recent awards show a pattern of formula grant stability: the past five years have seen 26 to 44 awards per year, trending downward in 2025–2026. Outstanding recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months totals 38 awards with $100 thousand combined potential value, though this figure reflects the small dollar magnitudes characteristic of MSP's award base.

MSP's prime contract role is strictly limited. Three CBP purchase orders for Michigan Law Enforcement Information Network (LEIN) access total $152 thousand across awards in August 2026 ($99.6 thousand), April 2025 ($26.4 thousand), and the previous fiscal cycle. An FBI Headquarters Division purchase order for Michigan State Police Connectivity services ($27 thousand, complete September 2024) provided access to AVPN-based LEIN terminals at the FBI's Detroit Field Office. MSP does not hold parent IDIQs, GWACs, or schedule vehicles; all five purchase orders are closed-ended, firm fixed-price, full-and-open awards with no set-aside designation.

MSP acts as the State Highway Safety Office, administering NHTSA formula grants and passing sub-awards to local law enforcement partners and academic institutions. A $6.1 million NHTSA Section 405(d) Impaired Driving Countermeasures grant (October 2025, CFDA 20.616) funded sub-awards to the Judiciary Courts of Michigan for judicial outreach and DWI court programs and to the University of Michigan for 10-year crash-trend analysis. MSP also serves as the fiscal agent for DOJ grant work; a $963 thousand Bureau of Justice Assistance Congressionally Recommended Awards project grant (August 2024) supporting the Mid-Michigan Law Enforcement Modernization Plan passed funds to Saginaw County Sheriff, Clio Police Department, Bay County Sheriff, and other local agencies for patrol vehicles, radios, and surveillance technology. Byrne JAG block grants consistently fund intelligence analysts, forensic scientists, and task force operations across more than twenty multijurisdictional narcotics and violent-crime task forces statewide, including the County of Macomb Enforcement Team, Metro Narcotics Enforcement Team (MNET), Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team (UPSET), and the R.H.I.N.O. Unit targeting sex trafficking. A series of emergency federal law enforcement assistance grants (EFLEA, CFDA 16.034) reimbursed local and state agencies for overtime response to active-shooter incidents at Michigan State University (February 2023), Brooklands Plaza splash pad in Rochester Hills (June 2024), and Grand Blanc Township church (September 2025).

The Michigan State Police is a component of the State of Michigan and operates under principal NAICS 922110 (Police Protection), with secondary activity in criminal history records improvement, forensic science service delivery, and highway traffic safety administration. All prime awards are categorized as federal grants or grant cooperatives; the five small CBP and FBI purchase orders carry PSC codes for law enforcement connectivity support and represent the entire contract footprint. No SBA set-asides apply to a U.S. state agency.