2017 NCS-X Implementation Assistance Program: Phase V – Support for Large Local Agencies

(Solicitation)
The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division established and
maintains the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). To generate detailed
national estimates of crime known to law enforcement (LE) using the NIBRS data, BJS
and the FBI are supporting the National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X) Initiative.
To produce statistically sound national estimates of crime, the NCS-X program will
support the transition to NIBRS reporting of a carefully selected sample of 400 LE
agencies nationwide. Through this solicitation, BJS seeks proposals to enable the
largest local LE agencies in the NCS-X sample–those agencies with 750 or more sworn
officers that are currently not reporting incident-based data to the Uniform Crime
Reporting (UCR) Program–to report incident-based crime data to the FBI’s NIBRS,
either through their state NIBRS-certified UCR Program or directly to the FBI. Bureau
of Justice Statistics (BJS) funding decisions under this solicitation will be made in
coordination and concurrence with the FBI’s CJIS Division.

The FBI has formally announced its intention to establish NIBRS as the UCR crime data
reporting standard for the nation, with a complementary plan to retire the Summary
Reporting System (SRS) of the UCR Program. The typical mechanism by which a local
agency contributes data to NIBRS is through its “state pipeline,” where agencies
report their state-specific incident-based crime data to the NIBRS-certified UCR
Program in their respective state, and the state agency then sends the data from all
of the state’s contributing agencies to the FBI. The FBI advocates the use of the
state pipeline for crime data reporting, a view that BJS supports. For those instances
in which a state is not able to receive incident-based data from local LE agencies,
the FBI is willing to receive the incident-based data directly from a local agency
until the state pipeline is in place. The plan to transition local agencies to
incident-based reporting (IBR) requires that local LE agencies work closely with the
state UCR Program to ensure the incident-based data submitted by the local agencies
meet the requirements of the state program.
Applicants must register with Grants.gov prior to submitting an application. All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on June 30, 2017.