The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), U.S. Department of Justice, offers this cooperative agreement for the continuation of the Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP). The FJSP serves as the national clearinghouse for federal case processing data, standardizing, maintaining, analyzing, and archiving information from six federal justice agencies. This grant is for tasks including receiving and converting 2012-2015 datasets into Standard Analysis Files (SAFs), ensuring data quality and confidentiality, and expanding the Dyad Link File System for longitudinal analysis. The recipient will provide technical assistance for FJSP data usage, update BJS online query tools, prepare data for the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, and produce an annual bulletin and data briefs, enhancing federal justice statistical reporting.
Opportunity ID: 234014
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | BJS-2013-3649 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | FY 2013 Continuation of the Federal Justice Statistics Program |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Information and Statistics |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 16.734 — Special Data Collections and Statistical Studies |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | May 09, 2013 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 24, 2013 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 24, 2013 |
| Archive Date: | Jul 24, 2013 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | $3,000,000 |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | Eligible applicants are limited to for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations), faith based and community organizations, institutions of higher learning (including tribal institutions of higher education. For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee). |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| Description: | The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the statistics agency of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and a component of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP). BJS is announcing a public solicitation for the continuation of the Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) through a Cooperative Agreement. The FJSP is managed by BJS and serves as the national clearinghouse of federal case processing data. Under this program, data provided by six federal justice agencies are standardized, maintained, analyzed, and archived (currently under Award #2010-BJ-CX-K079).1 The FJSP produces annual, cross-sectional data files (Standard Analysis Files, or SAFs) which represent the stages from arrest and prosecution through pretrial release, adjudication, sentencing, appeals, and corrections. BJS has used these files to report on defendants processed at a specific stage at a point in time. In the late 1990s, the FJSP developed a methodology to link person-case records to improve statistical reporting. Recognizing the greater analytical rigor that linked or longitudinal data provides in addressing policy questions, the FJSP created the Dyad Link File System to enable analysis of linked cohorts. The clearinghouse currently contains annual cross-sectional data files and Dyad Link Files from 1994 to 2010. Tasks under this award will include receiving 2013, 2014, and 2015 datasets from six federal agencies, converting 2012 (already received), 2013, and 2014 data into SAF format using SAS statistical software code, implementing guidelines to ensure data quality and confidentiality standards, and updating and expanding the Dyad Link File System to include all available data. The recipient will also provide technical assistance to BJS and others in using the FJSP data, preparing data and documenting files to update and expand the BJS online query tool, and assisting BJS to create additional online statistical reporting capabilities. The recipient will also prepare data files and documentation for submission to the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD). BJS is authorized to issue this solicitation under 42 U.S.C. § 3732(c). The recipient will prepare the annual Federal Criminal Justice Statistics bulletin and annually produce four data briefs on issues of timely substantive importance. The successful applicant will receive all relevant computer code developed to date by the FJSP to create the SAFs, the Dyad Link Files, the BJS online query tools, and the files submitted to NACJD. |
| Link to Additional Information: | Program Announcement |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Cathy Maston
Management and Program Analyst Phone 2023075992 Email:cathy.maston@usdoj.gov |
Version History
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Cathy Maston Management and Program Analyst Phone 2023075992 Email: cathy.maston@usdoj.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PKG00177272 | May 09, 2013 | Jun 24, 2013 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
234014 SF424-2.0.pdf
234014 Project-1.1.pdf
234014 Budget-1.1.pdf
234014 SF424B-1.1.pdf
Optional forms
234014 FaithBased_SurveyOnEEO-1.2.pdf
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