North Dakota Supreme Court

The North Dakota Supreme Court is a U.S. state government entity that receives federal formula grants and project grants as a recipient from the Administration for Children, Youth and Families and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, with no federal contracts or prime contracting activity. All nineteen awards in the source represent grant work performed directly by the court as a prime recipient, not subrecipient engagements.

The North Dakota Supreme Court's federal footprint concentrates almost entirely on child welfare court improvement and judicial administration. The Administration for Children, Youth and Families (part of the Department of Health and Human Services) accounts for eighteen awards spanning recurring annual State Court Improvement Program (SCIP) formula grants and one larger project award. The SCIP grants (CFDA 93.586) run on a rolling annual cycle — the most recent award covers October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2027 with a $316,978 ceiling — and fund court process improvements, judicial training, data system integration, and specialized programming in child welfare, family preservation, reunification, guardianship, and adoption proceedings. The Bureau of Justice Assistance issued one project grant (awarded October 1, 2021, completing October 31, 2024) to improve criminal case processing and reduce delay through data-driven caseflow management across four of North Dakota's eight judicial districts, working with the National Center for State Courts as a consultant partner to analyze root causes of delay and test promising strategies in rural and persistent-poverty communities.

Total obligated dollars across all nineteen awards stand at $5.2 million. Activity has remained flat at approximately one award per year for the past five years. Two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore represent recompete opportunity for potential grantees. As a child entity of the State of North Dakota, the court operates under its parent's federal grant relationships and receives no federal contract vehicles or prime contract awards; all federal work is grant-funded judicial operations within North Dakota's state court system.