BJS FY24 Continuation of the Federal Justice Statistics Program | O BJS 2024 172132

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is offering a FY24 continuation funding opportunity for the Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP), aimed at strengthening how federal criminal justice data are collected, connected, and used for practical decision-making. The core purpose is to maximize the usefulness of FJSP for evidence-based analysis across the Department of Justice (DOJ) and other federal partners in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. In plain terms, this grant is designed to support work that makes federal justice data easier to access, more informative, and more analytically powerful for policy and operational needs.

A major emphasis of the opportunity is improving and expanding what users can learn from the Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics (FCCPS) query tool. That includes adding more information to the system and improving how the tool supports analysis of federal criminal case processing. BJS is also explicitly looking for demonstrations of new analytic approaches, with a strong focus on record linkage methods. Record linkage generally refers to techniques that connect related records across different datasets (for example, linking stages of a case across arrest, prosecution, courts, and corrections data where appropriate). The intent is to show how connected federal datasets can produce stronger, more policy-relevant evidence than isolated data sources, which can help agencies understand system performance, case trajectories, and outcomes in ways that directly inform policymaking.

This is a discretionary funding opportunity and will be awarded as a cooperative agreement, which typically means BJS expects substantial involvement during the project period (for example, collaboration on priorities, deliverables, technical decisions, or dissemination). The funding activity category is Information and Statistics, consistent with BJS's role as DOJ's statistical agency. The program is listed under CFDA number 16.734.

The solicitation anticipates a single award, with an award ceiling of $3,600,000. The original application closing date was July 1, 2024, and the opportunity was created on May 16, 2024. The funding opportunity number is O-BJS-2024-172132, and the title is "BJS FY24 Continuation of the Federal Justice Statistics Program."

Eligibility is broad and includes state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; and other local government units such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, and other general-purpose political subdivisions of a state. It is also open to public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized tribal governments, tribal organizations (including those not federally recognized as tribal governments), nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3)), for-profit organizations other than small businesses, and small businesses. This wide eligibility aligns with the technical, data-intensive nature of the work, where capable applicants may come from government, academia, nonprofit research, or the private sector.

Overall, the opportunity supports a continuation effort focused on improving federal justice statistics infrastructure and outputs: expanding the FCCPS tool's content and usefulness, developing and demonstrating record-linkage and related analytic methods, and delivering data products and tools that help federal stakeholders generate credible, actionable evidence for policy decisions.

• The Bureau of Justice Statistics in the information and statistics sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJS FY24 Continuation of the Federal Justice Statistics Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.734.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-05-16.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-07-01. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $3,600,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.

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