Title
FY 17 National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X-State) Project: Technical Assistance and Implementation Support
Agencies
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
Description
The U.S. Department of Justice(DOJ), Office of Justice Programs(OJP), Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), in partnership with the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)
Division, seeks applications to provide implementation and technical assistance support
services to the National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X) Initiative. This NCS-X Implementation Team will be responsible for NCS-X
project management and coordination; program development, recruitment, and implementation;
marketing and outreach; and technical and analytic support. NCS-X is an effort to generate nationally representative incident-based data on crime and arrest known to law enforcement (LE) by recruiting a scientifically selected sample of 400 LE agencies to provide their crime incident data to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System. This program furthers the Department’s mission by improving the nation’s crime data, promoting effective crime prevention planning and public safety.
BJS seeks applications from organizations or project teams to serve as the NCS-X Implementation Team and provide implementation and technical assistance support services to
NCS-X grantees, sample agencies, state UCR Programs, and other NCS-X stakeholders. This
team will work closely with BJS and FBI CJIS to transition the NCS-X sample agencies to
NIBRS-compliant reporting. In collaboration with BJS and FBI CJIS staff, the NCS-X Implementation Team will provide services across six primary program components:
1) NCS-X project management—effectively manage and coordinate all aspects of implementation and technical assistance for NCS-X across all program components
2) NCS-X program recruitment—conduct aggressive
outreach to state UCR Programs and local LE agencies to garner support for and participation in the NCS-X Initiative
3) Technical and implementation assistance to NCS-
X agencies—work directly with state UCR Programs and local LE agencies to discuss the specific needs of the agencies when transitioning to NIBRS
-compliant reporting, including current agency capabilities, barriers to reporting, and business practices surrounding crime data reporting
4) NCS-X program development—assess current program materials and update as needed,
including Concept of Operations planning documents, playbooks for NIBRS implementation at the state and local agency levels, and readiness assessment (RA) and cost estimation documents; and
develop new materials to support state UCR
Programs and local LE agencies, as required.
5) Marketing and outreach—revamp and refresh current program description materials;
work with BJS to expand information available on BJS’s NCS-X website; develop new infographics and other appropriate marketing materials to describe various aspects of the NCS-X Initiative; conduct webinars about the transition to NIBRS reporting among state and local agencies; and design and implement other marketing and outreach activities, as required
6) Analytic support and reporting—conduct methodological and statistical analysis of NIBRS and other data to (a) provide use-cases for NIBRS; (b) provide analytic models for data analysis to state UCR Programs and local LE agencies; (c) track progress toward full implementation of NCS-X; (d) provide feedback to state UCR Programs and local agencies regarding data quality and completeness; and (e) assist
BJS and FBI CJIS in the development of reports and other statistical products using NIBRS/UCR data to further NCS-X program objectives.
More Information
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fy17ncseptasissol.pdf
Submission Limits
Under this solicitation, only one application by any particular applicant entity will be considered. An entity may, however, be proposed as a subrecipient (“subgranteeâ€) in more than one application.
Deadlines
Internal Notice of Intent |
Jun 22, 2017 |
Notification of Internal Competition |
Jun 23, 2017 |
Internal Pre-proposal |
Jun 30, 2017 |
Results of Internal Competition |
Jul 7, 2017 |
Agency Notice of Intent/Pre-proposal |
N/A |
Agency Proposal |
Jul 17, 2017
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