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Court Technology: Cost, Contract, and Outcome

The public record already shows substantial facility and digital-modernization spending context. This page asks the next answerable question: what acceptance, reliability, support, workflow, and public-outcome standards did that money buy?

$112.6M+broader, distinct-bucket modernization context
$82M+reported York facility plus eCourts floor
878filing-system messages audited
9contract/performance record categories tracked
Cost and outcome metrics

Different buckets remain different. Performance still has to be measured.

The page does not claim that $112.6 million was spent only at York or that facility financing and statewide eCourts spending are one audited project total.

$95.6M

Court-facility financing authority

Public Law 2015, chapter 468 authorized up to $95.6 million across Oxford, Waldo, and York Counties and related planning.

official-law
$65M

Reported York Judicial Center cost

Contemporary reporting placed the consolidated Biddeford courthouse at approximately $65 million.

reported
$17M+

Reported statewide eCourts spending floor

Reporting in March 2025 placed Maine eCourts spending above $17 million at that time.

reported
$112.6M+

Broader modernization context

The facility authority and reported eCourts floor exceed $112.6 million when placed beside each other, but they are distinct buckets.

context
$82M+

York facility plus reported eCourts floor

A narrower reported context combining the York facility and the statewide eCourts spending floor.

context
878

Filing-system notices in the audit window

Message-level Gmail count, not unique filings.

performance
234

Rejection/return messages

Message-level count, not independent rejected filings.

performance
30

Automated messages from one representative envelope

Five submission, ten service, five primary rejection, and ten File & Serve rejection notices.

performance
62 days

August 7 filing to October 8 hearing

Elapsed-time fact from the York public record.

performance
Official and public sources: Public Law 2015, chapter 468; Maine eCourts; Maine Service Contract Search; and the linked reporting identified in the York accountability record.
Public record gap tracker

The missing contract-performance record is now itemized.

IDRecord categoryLikely custodianCurrent public-site statusNext action
CT-001Tyler / Maine eCourts master contract and statements of workDAFS Procurement / Judicial Branch administrationPublic procurement search identified; contract not yet catalogedSearch VSS and request the controlling contract number and all SOWs.
CT-002Contract amendments, change orders, renewals, and price adjustmentsDAFS Procurement / Judicial Branch administrationNot yet in public catalogRequest complete amendment and renewal chain.
CT-003Acceptance testing, implementation milestones, and go-live criteriaJudicial Branch administration / vendor project recordsNot yet in public catalogRequest milestone acceptance documents and exception logs.
CT-004Service-level, uptime, support, and incident-response obligationsJudicial Branch administration / vendorNot yet in public catalogRequest SLA, support matrix, escalation path, and performance reports.
CT-005Invoices, payments, credits, and withheld amountsDAFS / Judicial Branch financial administrationNot yet in public catalogRequest invoice-level payment history and credits.
CT-006Defect logs, support tickets, incident reports, and root-cause analysesJudicial Branch administration / vendorNot yet in public catalogRequest public-safe aggregate defect and incident records, excluding security-sensitive details.
CT-007Rejection reason-code dictionary and workflow configurationJudicial Branch court operations / vendorNot yet in public catalogRequest current reason codes, definitions, ownership, and change history.
CT-008Training materials and clerk/filer guidanceJudicial Branch court operationsPartial public guidance existsCatalog public training materials and request internal public-safe workflow manuals.
CT-009Quarterly public performance measuresJudicial Branch administrationNo contract-performance dashboard located in site catalogRequest and propose publication of rejection, repeat-rejection, acceptance-time, uptime, and support metrics.

Records-request boundary

The template seeks public administrative and contract-performance records. It expressly excludes confidential case records, sealed material, judicial deliberations, privileged legal advice, credentials, security-sensitive architecture, and personal identifying information. It does not assume that Maine’s general FOAA procedure governs every Judicial Branch administrative record; it asks the custodian to identify the controlling process.

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