2017 NCS-X Implementation Assistance Program: Phase VI – Support for Small and Medium Local Law Enforcement 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, the
Bureau of Justice Statistics (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 up to 67 local LE agencies in the NCS-X
sample–those agencies with fewer than 750 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 UCR Program or directly to the
FBI.
BJS funding decisions under this solicitation will be made in coordination with and
concurrence of 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. However, agencies are strongly encouraged to report
directly to their state UCR Program whenever possible. 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 eastern time on June 30, 2017.