FY 2021 Continuation of the Federal Justice Statistics Program | O BJS 2021 48005

Opportunity Information: Apply for O BJS 2021 48005

The FY 2021 Continuation of the Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) is a discretionary federal grant opportunity from the Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). It is offered as a cooperative agreement, which typically means the awardee will work closely with BJS and follow shared project direction, milestones, and review processes rather than operating entirely independently. The program sits within BJSs Information and Statistics funding activity area and is listed under CFDA 16.734.

The core purpose of the FJSP is to compile and produce comprehensive statistical information about defendants as they move through the federal criminal justice system. In practical terms, the project focuses on building an integrated, standardized, and linkable set of administrative records that cover the full federal case-processing pipeline. This includes tracking cohorts of people from arrest and initial processing, through prosecution and court activity, pretrial release and detention decisions, adjudication outcomes, sentencing, appeals, and correctional involvement. A key value of the program is its ability to link records across stages so analysts can follow the same case or person across multiple federal justice decisions and outcomes over time.

To accomplish this, the program receives administrative data each year from seven federal justice agencies. The recipient is expected to handle the full lifecycle of these data: receiving and securely managing the files, standardizing them into consistent formats, maintaining and updating datasets across years, linking records across agencies and stages, conducting analysis, and archiving the resulting standardized data products. The emphasis on standardization and linkage reflects the programs role as a foundational national statistical resource, enabling reliable comparisons across years, consistent reporting, and deeper analytic work on how federal cases progress and where key decision points occur.

The opportunity anticipates a single award (ExpectedAwards: 1), reinforcing that this is a continuation-style, central infrastructure effort rather than a broad competitive portfolio of multiple smaller projects. The award ceiling is $3,300,000. The funding opportunity number is O-BJS-2021-48005, and the opportunity category is discretionary. The notice was created on December 22, 2020, with an original closing date of March 2, 2021.

Eligibility is described as Others (see additional eligibility text in the full solicitation), which usually signals that the competition is targeted to specific types of organizations or entities that meet particular qualifications, often including demonstrated capacity to manage sensitive administrative justice data, perform complex record linkage, and maintain long-term statistical series. Overall, the grant is designed to sustain and advance a critical federal statistical program that supports evidence-based understanding of federal criminal case processing by producing high-quality, linked, and analyzable datasets spanning the major stages of the federal justice system.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics in the information and statistics sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2021 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 Dec 22, 2020.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 02, 2021. (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 $3,300,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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