FY2021 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies | O BJS 2021 60006

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The FY2021 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies (CLETA) grant opportunity is a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) effort, under the U.S. Department of Justice, to update and continue a long-running national data collection on law enforcement training academies. BJS has already completed four prior waves of this census, and this solicitation is designed to produce a refreshed, current snapshot of how academies operate across the country. The overall purpose is to generate accurate, timely national statistics on core aspects of academy operations, including information about recruits, training curricula, staffing, and the resources academies use to deliver training.

This award is structured as a 36-month cooperative agreement, which typically means BJS expects substantial involvement during the project period (for example, coordination on methods, instruments, and deliverables). The work is essentially a full end-to-end statistical data collection and production cycle. The project begins with questionnaire development, where the recipient updates or refines the survey instrument to ensure it captures relevant topics and produces consistent, usable measures. It then moves into frame development, which is the process of building or updating the national list of eligible law enforcement training academies to be included in the census, along with contact and classification information needed to conduct outreach and data collection. A key operational milestone is fielding the CLETA in 2023, meaning the recipient will administer the survey nationally to the academies in scope and manage data collection operations. The final stages focus on data cleaning and processing, statistical analysis, and the delivery of both raw and final datasets, so that BJS can publish findings and make the data available for broader research and policy use.

In terms of funding and scale, the opportunity anticipates making a single award, with an award ceiling of $750,000. The program is categorized under the Information and Statistics funding activity area, and it is associated with CFDA number 16.734. Because this is a census-style collection intended to produce national statistics, the recipient is expected to demonstrate the capacity to design and run a large, methodologically sound data collection effort, handle complex data management and quality assurance, and produce well-documented datasets suitable for official statistical use.

Eligibility is broad and includes public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized tribal governments, other tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations (including both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) entities), and for-profit organizations other than small businesses. The listing also notes that eligibility is effectively unrestricted across these entity types, subject to any clarifications that may appear in the full solicitation text. This wide eligibility reflects the technical nature of the work, which could be carried out by universities, research nonprofits, survey research firms, or other qualified organizations with experience in national statistical collections.

Administratively, the opportunity was posted with a creation date of January 14, 2021, and an original application closing date of March 1, 2021. The funding opportunity number is O-BJS-2021-60006, and the awarding agency is the Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. Overall, the solicitation is focused less on funding program services and more on producing a high-quality national statistical product that captures how law enforcement training academies are staffed, resourced, and structured, what and how they teach, and who they train, culminating in cleaned and documented data files and analytic outputs that BJS can use for publication and public dissemination.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics in the information and statistics sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY2021 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies" 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 Jan 14, 2021.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 01, 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 $750,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), 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, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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