Opportunity Information: Apply for O BJS 2025 172505
The BJS FY25 National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Estimation Project Supplement is a continuation, invited-to-apply cooperative agreement from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) focused on keeping national crime statistics reliable as the country completes its shift to the FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System. Since NIBRS became the national law enforcement crime data reporting standard on January 1, 2021, BJS and the FBI have been working together on the NIBRS Estimation Project to ensure that crime estimates can be produced using NIBRS-only data (rather than older summary-based systems). This supplement is designed to maintain and refine that work on an ongoing, annual basis.
At its core, the project is about building and sustaining the statistical backbone needed to turn incoming NIBRS submissions into trustworthy national indicators. The work includes developing and testing statistical procedures to measure the quality and completeness of NIBRS data, refining estimation and weighting methods that can generate accurate and reliable crime estimates, and supporting a semi-automated production process that can be used every year. The emphasis on a semi-automated system signals that the end goal is not just one-time research, but a repeatable annual workflow that can consistently produce estimates as data arrive and conditions change.
The primary purpose of this FY25 supplemental funding is to conduct an annual evaluation and update of the estimation and weighting methods used to produce national, state, and regional crime estimates from NIBRS. This is necessary because NIBRS coverage is not static: the set of law enforcement agencies that submit data changes year to year, and BJS expects that churn to continue for at least the next several years while the national transition to NIBRS fully stabilizes. As coverage shifts, the underlying assumptions and statistical adjustments used to correct for missingness, participation gaps, and variable data quality must be revisited so that published estimates remain comparable over time and do not drift due to changes in reporting rather than changes in crime.
The opportunity is structured as a cooperative agreement, meaning the funders anticipate substantial involvement in the project beyond simply issuing funds. The funding is jointly supported by BJS and the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, reflecting the shared federal responsibility for both the statistical estimation side (BJS) and the operational crime data infrastructure (FBI/CJIS). The posted details indicate this is a continuation award with an expected single award, an award ceiling of $1,500,000, and an original closing date of December 5, 2025. The listing identifies RTI International in connection with the supplement, consistent with an invited continuation action tied to an existing project team and established methodology.
In practical terms, this supplement is about keeping the NIBRS-based estimation engine tuned as the data ecosystem evolves: reassessing data quality and completeness, recalibrating weights and models as agency participation expands or shifts, and ensuring the annual production of national, regional, and state crime estimates remains statistically defensible during the multi-year transition period.Apply for O BJS 2025 172505
- The Bureau of Justice Statistics in the information and statistics sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJS FY25 National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Estimation Project Supplement – Invited to Apply" 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 2025-12-03.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-12-05. (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 $1,500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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