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Expired Funding Opportunities

This page presents expired funding opportunities from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Use the search filters below to find specific solicitations. Select a solicitation title to see details about the solicitation along with any resulting awards.

BJS FY24 Federal Law Enforcement Agency Deaths in Custody Reporting Program, 2024-2026

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BJS seeks to collect data on persons who died in the custody of federal law enforcement agencies in fiscal year (FY) 2024, FY25, and FY26, building on BJS’s existing efforts. The data collection will include a web-based interface to allow federal law enforcement agencies to identify all deaths that are arrest-related or that occur in detention or incarceration facilities.

BJS FY24 Continuation of the Federal Justice Statistics Program

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BJS seeks to maximize the utility of the Federal Justice Statistics Program by providing the data and tools needed to support evidence-based analyses for the Department of Justice and other executive, legislative, and judicial branch agencies. This includes expanding the information available through the Federal Criminal Case Processing query tool and demonstrating new ways—especially through record-linkage tools—that federal data can be analyzed to develop evidence to support policymaking.

BJS FY24 NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP)

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BJS seeks to continue funding for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP) to identify program priorities and provide information on application requirements. In fiscal year 2024, BJS is prioritizing the use of funds for two purposes: (1) to enhance the completeness, automation, and transmittal of records to state and federal systems used by the NICS, and (2) to improve the overall reporting to the NICS of persons prohibited from possessing firearms for reasons related to domestic violence and mental health.

BJS FY24 State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers

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BJS seeks to fund applications from state Statistical Analysis Centers under the fiscal year 2024 State Justice Statistics program. The program supports the collection, analysis, and dissemination of statistical information on crime and criminal justice at the state and local levels.

BJS FY24 Census of Jails, 2025 and 2026

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks a data collection agent for administering the 2025 and 2026 annual Census of Jails (COJ) to approximately 2,900 jails. The COJ stands as BJS’s most comprehensive collection of jail administrative data, providing national and state-level statistics on various aspects of jail populations. From 1970 to 2024, BJS conducted the COJ every 5 to 6 years to gather information on jail populations and facility characteristics.

BJS FY24 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)

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BJS seeks to reduce violent crime and address gun violence by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal history and related records in support of national record systems and their use for name- and fingerprint-based criminal history background checks.

BJS FY24 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Supplemental Funding under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

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BJS seeks to reduce violent crime and address gun violence by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal history and related records in support of national record systems and their use for name- and fingerprint-based criminal history record background checks. This program was developed to implement Title III, Division B (3) – Appropriations outlined in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (P.L. 117–159). 

FY 2023 Federal Deaths in Custody Reporting Program Supplement

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Per the Federal Deaths in Custody Reporting Act statute (P.L. 113 242), the head of federal law enforcement agencies are required to submit a report that contains information regarding the death of any person while that person is detained, under arrest, or in the process of being arrested by federal law enforcement officers or while in custody. In response to the legislation, BJS was designated the official data collection agency on behalf of the Attorney General.

FY 2023 Statistical Support Program Supplement

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Award funds to assess the feasibility of restarting the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts and the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts Trials on Appeal data collections, using new approaches.

FY 2023 Access to Justice Design and Testing Program

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks a vendor to support research and testing activities related to development of a new data collection that will measure access to justice for civil legal needs. As the Department's principal federal statistical agency, BJS is responsible for the collection, analysis, publication, and dissemination of statistics on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operations of criminal justice systems at all levels of government.

FY 2023 Law Enforcement Transition to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to Improve Hate Crime Reporting

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As of January 1, 2021, the FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is the law enforcement crime data reporting standard for the nation. NIBRS collects detailed crime incident data from law enforcement agencies, including data on bias motivated incidents. The Jabara Heyer NO HATE Act NIBRS Transition Program authorizes BJS to provide funding to support law enforcement agencies to transition their crime reporting to comply with NIBRS requirements.

FY 2023 California Law Enforcement Transition to NIBRS—Rapid Deployment Model Project

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Funding will enable the California Department of Justice (CA DOJ) to support the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD), Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office (LASO) in their respective transitions to the FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS). These three agencies represent a significant gap in crime reporting, as together the agencies comprise just over a quarter of the state's population.

FY 2023 Campus Climate Survey

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As part of the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022, 1161l 6.

FY2023 State Justice Statistics for Statistical Analysis Centers Technical Assistance Program

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is publishing this notice to announce the Technical Assistance Program to support activities under the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (SJS SAC) in FY 2022. The SJS SAC program is designed to maintain and enhance each state's capacity to coordinate statistical activities in the state, conduct research on relevant criminal justice issues, and serve as a liaison to help BJS gather data from state agencies.

FY 2023 National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Estimation Project (EP)

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As of January 1, 2021, the FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) has become the law enforcement crime data reporting standard for the nation. BJS and the FBI have partnered together on the NCS X NIBRS Estimation Project (NNEP) to develop appropriate methods for generating national crime estimates based exclusively on NIBRS data.

FY 2023 Criminal History Record Assessment and Research Program

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The CHRARP furthers BJS's mission to produce accurate and timely criminal history and recidivism statistics. BJS collects the national criminal history data to support the CHRARP from the FBI and state repositories. Through a competitive solicitation in 2019, NORC was selected as the data processing agent for the 2020 CHRARP.

FY 2023 Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities 2024

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This collection is part of the larger BJS portfolio of establishment surveys that inform the nation on the characteristics of adult correctional facilities and persons sentenced to state, federal, and privately operated prisons. BJS's National Prisoner Statistics Program (NPS) collects aggregate counts of male and female custody and jurisdiction prison populations on December 31 each year. Through the National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP), BJS collects individual level data on prisoners entering or leaving the custody of state prison systems.

FY 2023 National Inmate Survey (NIS-4) Jails

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The National Prison Rape Statistics Program (NPRSP), developed upon passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, entails the collection of both administrative and self report data on sexual violence from State and Federal prisons, locally operated jails, and public and private facilities for juvenile offenders in the nation. The National Inmate Survey (NIS) is one of the data collections developed under the NPRSP.

FY 2023 National Inmate Survey (NIS-4) Prisons

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The National Prison Rape Statistics Program (NPRSP), developed upon passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, entails the collection of both administrative and self report data on sexual violence from State and Federal prisons, locally operated jails, and public and private facilities for juvenile offenders in the nation. The National Inmate Survey (NIS) is one of the data collections developed under the NPRSP.

FY 2023 Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2024-27

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The goals of this project are to field the survey instrument and to analyze the data it collects to produce high quality and accurate statistics and analyses for the 2024 through 2027 iterations of the Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC). In addition, BJS expects the award recipient to recommend enhancements for the SJIC, cognitively test revised and new questions, and field an addendum to one SJIC collection year based on the survey enhancements. Survey design, data collection, and analytic activities include .

FY 2023 NICS Act Record Improvement Program

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks applications for funding under the fiscal year (FY) 2023 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP). This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by enhancing the completeness, automation, and transmittal of records to state and federal systems used by the NICS.