The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks applications for funding to administer the Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories (CPFFCL).
Donor Name: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/24/2023
Size of the Grant: $600,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
With this solicitation, BJS seeks applications for the administration of the 2024 Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories (CPFFCL). The goal of the 36-month project is to obtain updated information about the workload, resources, policies, and procedures of all publicly funded forensic crime laboratories operating in the United States. The award recipient will be responsible for developing and testing a reliable, multimode data collection, updating and maintaining a directory of all publicly funded crime laboratories in the country, fielding the CPFFCL with a 2024 reference year, making reasonable efforts to maximize response rates, and providing interim and final datasets that are clean and accurate.
Goals
The CPFFCL is a 36-month-long program to administer a data collection to provide timely, accurate, and nationally representative statistics about the number of crime laboratories and their staffing, budget, workload, resources, policies, and procedures for the 2024 reference year.
Objectives
To achieve the goal of successfully administering the CPPFCL, the recipient of funds will work closely with BJS on the following main objectives:
- Develop a current, reliable, multimode survey that minimizes respondent burden and obtains the desired data points from respondents.
- Update and maintain a directory of all publicly funded forensic crime laboratories to ensure complete enumeration of all eligible laboratories.
- Field the CPFFCL for the 2024 reference year, taking reasonable measures to maximize response rates.
- Support BJS efforts to report timely, accurate statistics by providing interim datasets and a final dataset that are clean and accurate and can be used to obtain nationally representative statistics.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: 600,000
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $600,000.00
Period of Performance Duration (Months)
36
Eligible Applicants
- 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
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
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