BJS FY24 Statistical Support Program | O BJS 2024 172140

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The BJS FY24 Statistical Support Program (BJS-SSP) is a discretionary federal grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to fund a single organization to provide broad statistical and methodological support across BJS data collection and reporting efforts. The program is designed to strengthen BJS's ability to run both existing and new criminal justice data collections by supplying technical expertise in statistics, survey and study design, methodology, and related analytic support. In practical terms, the funded recipient would help BJS improve how it collects, manages, analyzes, and communicates national criminal justice statistics, with the goal of expanding what BJS can measure and report and increasing the range of substantive issues BJS can cover.

BJS's work spans major parts of the criminal justice system, and this program is meant to support that full scope. BJS produces statistics on policing, prosecution, courts, institutional corrections, community supervision, and victimization. The Statistical Support Program is intended to function as a flexible support mechanism that can be applied across these topic areas as needs arise, helping BJS maintain high-quality data standards while also innovating and modernizing methods to address emerging information needs. The overall emphasis is on improving capacity: more capability to collect data, more capability to analyze it rigorously, and more capability to report it in ways that are useful to policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and the public.

The award will be made as a cooperative agreement, which typically means BJS expects to have substantial involvement in the work as it is carried out, rather than simply issuing funds and receiving periodic reports. While the solicitation summary does not list detailed tasks, the stated mission implies support activities such as advising on sampling and survey design, addressing measurement and data quality issues, developing or refining statistical methods for estimation and trend analysis, assisting with instrument testing and validation, supporting data processing and documentation practices, and helping BJS produce clear, statistically sound publications and data products. Because the program is framed around both "existing and new data collections," it also suggests a role in helping BJS pilot and launch new collection efforts or adapt older systems to new realities, including potentially improving timeliness, comparability, and usefulness of the resulting statistics.

Eligibility is broad and includes public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (including both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) entities), Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments), for-profit organizations other than small businesses, and small businesses. This range indicates BJS is open to proposals from universities, research centers, survey organizations, think tanks, and specialized statistical or data-science contractors, as long as they can demonstrate the expertise and infrastructure needed to support a national statistical agency's work.

Key administrative details include the funding opportunity number O-BJS-2024-172140, CFDA number 16.734, and activity category "Information and Statistics." The opportunity was created on May 24, 2024, with an original closing date of July 23, 2024. The award ceiling is $1,500,000, and BJS expects to make one award, meaning this is set up as a single, centralized support award rather than multiple smaller grants. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as a capacity-building and technical support vehicle for BJS, aimed at ensuring that the agency can continue to produce credible, methodologically strong criminal justice statistics while expanding what it can measure and report.

• The Bureau of Justice Statistics in the information and statistics sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJS FY24 Statistical Support 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 2024-05-24.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-07-23. (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 $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, 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.

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