Federal contractor · AUGUSTA, ME

MAINE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

MAINE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION received $170.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (+10% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $1.4M. Its largest customer was Department of Education ($170.3K). It also received $249.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$170.3K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small businessGovernment entity
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 142.3KFY2017
  2. 142.8KFY2018
  3. 71KFY2019
  4. 165.1KFY2020
  5. 141.4KFY2021
  6. 139.9KFY2022
  7. 135.9KFY2023
  8. 154.3KFY2024
  9. 154.9KFY2025
  10. 170.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Education$170.3K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$170.3K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Kennebec County, ME$170.3K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $170.3K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $170.3K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. MAINE - NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS (NAEP) STATE COORDINATOR$333.1K
    Department of Education· Kennebec County, ME· Professional services· Mar 31, 2025 – Aug 12, 2026· 91990025C0044

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

MAINE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION received $249.2M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 106 actions (33 new awards), +11% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.027 · Special Education Grants to States ($65.9M).

Assistance · FY2026
$249.2M
New awards
33
Actions
106
Since FY2021
$2.1B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 882.1MFY2021
  2. 272.4MFY2022
  3. 266.7MFY2023
  4. 246.9MFY2024
  5. 224.5MFY2025
  6. 249.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$249.2M100%

Top programs

  1. 84.027 · Special Education Grants to States$65.9M26%
  2. 10.555 · National School Lunch Program$65.6M26%
  3. 84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies$61.4M25%
  4. 84.367 · Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants (Formerly Improving Teacher Quality State GRANTS)$10.8M4.3%
  5. 84.048 · Career and Technical Education -- Basic Grants to States$7M2.8%
  6. 84.424 · Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program$6.7M2.7%
  7. 84.287 · Twenty-First Century Community Learning Centers$6.5M2.6%
  8. 84.369 · Grants for State Assessments and Related Activities$3.7M1.5%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$167.1M67%
  2. Food and Nutrition Service$71.2M29%
    Department of Agriculture
  3. Employment and Training Administration$8.8M3.5%
    Department of Labor
  4. Administration for Children and Families$2M0.8%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$184.9K0.1%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. STATE GRANT - B (611)$65.4M
    84.027 · Special Education Grants to States· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· H027A250109
  2. STATE GRANT - B (611)$61.9M
    84.027 · Special Education Grants to States· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2022 – Jan 29, 2026· H027A220109
  3. TITLE I PART A BASIC GRANTS TO LEAS$61.7M
    84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· S010A250019
  4. CNP CN BLOCK PROGRAMS TOTAL CONSOLIDATED$56.4M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Dec 1, 2025 – Jul 7, 2026· 264ME301N1099
  5. CNP CN BLOCK PROGRAMS TOTAL CONSOLIDATED$35.6M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 7, 2024 – Jul 2, 2026· 254ME301N1099
  6. CNP CN BLOCK PROG$32.4M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Nov 8, 2024 – Jun 1, 2026· 254ME301N1199

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $221.7M (1,821 subawards)

358 sub-recipients

  1. PORTLAND SCHOOL DEPARTMENT$9.9M4.5%
    PORTLAND, ME · 15 subawards
  2. LEWISTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS$6.9M3.1%
    LEWISTON, ME · 8 subawards
  3. SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE DIST 54$5.6M2.5%
    SKOWHEGAN, ME · 13 subawards
  4. CITY OF BANGOR CITY HALL$5.6M2.5%
    BANGOR, ME · 16 subawards
  5. MAINE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT 17$5.5M2.5%
    SOUTH PARIS, ME · 9 subawards
  6. CITY OF LEWISTON$5.1M2.3%
    LEWISTON, ME · 7 subawards
  7. THE CITY OF AUBURN$5.1M2.3%
    AUBURN, ME · 14 subawards
  8. CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES$4.6M2.1%
    AUGUSTA, ME · 3 subawards
  9. SANFORD SCHOOL DEPARTMENT$4.6M2.1%
    SANFORD, ME · 12 subawards
  10. REGIONAL SCHOOL UNIT NO 9$4.3M1.9%
    FARMINGTON, ME · 10 subawards

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $576.1M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2022: $190.9M paid out · $200K received
  • FY2023: $240.1M paid out · $141.1K received
  • FY2024: $301.1M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2025: $190.1M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2026: $221.7M paid out · $0 received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

509 companies · $1.7B reported

  1. LEWISTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS$83.6M
    LEWISTON, ME · 172 subawards
  2. PORTLAND SCHOOL DEPARTMENT$63.2M
    PORTLAND, ME · 157 subawards
  3. REGIONAL SCHOOL UNIT NO. 67$51.7M
    LINCOLN, ME · 83 subawards

Primes that pay it

2 companies · $341.1K reported

  1. COASTAL COUNTIES WORKFORCE INC$200K
    BRUNSWICK, ME · 1 subaward
  2. COMMUNITY SERVICE, MAINE COMMISSION FOR$141.1K
    AUGUSTA, ME · 1 subaward

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Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION$487.4K+14% in FY2026
    RALEIGH, NC · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services
  2. PENNSYLVANIA DEPT OF EDUCATION$492.4K+68% in FY2026
    HARRISBURG, PA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services
  3. WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION$462K+1.9% in FY2026
    MADISON, WI · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.