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Opportunity Summary:

The 2009 Court Statistics Projects grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 2009 BJS 2128) is a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) solicitation to identify a data collection agent to administer the long-running Court Statistics Project (CSP). The CSP began in 1975 under the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), with BJS support starting in the early 1980s. Its central goal is to maintain a systematic, credible way to build a valid, uniform, and complete statistical database describing how state court systems operate across the United States. In practical terms, the project is about collecting, standardizing, and aggregating court caseload data so that state court activity can be compared across jurisdictions and tracked over time, rather than remaining fragmented across separate state reporting systems.

The scope of the CSP is nationwide and covers both trial and appellate courts in all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The data emphasis is on state court caseloads for a specific reporting year as well as multiyear trend information that shows how court workloads change over time. For this solicitation, the expectation is that the trial and appellate court data assembled through the project will be accurate as of December 2008, meaning the awardee is responsible for producing a dataset and related outputs that reflect that reference point and meet the project standards for completeness and consistency.

BJS indicates it expects to make a single award under this competition. The award is structured as a cooperative agreement, which typically means the agency anticipates substantial involvement in guiding or collaborating on the work rather than simply issuing a hands-off grant. The initial project period is 12 months, with the possibility of up to two additional continuation years. Those continuation years are not automatic; they depend on the availability of federal funds and on the quality of the awardee's performance and deliverables during the first year.

Applicants are encouraged to review prior CSP reports hosted on the NCSC website, which is a signal that the work is meant to build on established CSP methods, definitions, and reporting conventions rather than reinventing them. In other words, familiarity with the historical CSP publications and the practical challenges of harmonizing court statistics across jurisdictions would be important for proposing a credible approach, timeline, and set of products.

Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning any type of entity may apply, including both nonprofit and for-profit (commercial) organizations. However, the solicitation highlights a key federal grants management constraint for for-profit applicants: consistent with Office of Justice Programs fiscal requirements, for-profit organizations may not earn profit from the award and may not charge a management fee for performing the work. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, so applicants are not required to contribute non-federal funds as a condition of award.

Administratively, the opportunity is categorized as discretionary funding within the Information and Statistics activity area. It is associated with CFDA number 16.734 (Special Data Collections and Statistical Studies). The solicitation was posted March 26, 2009, and the closing date reflected in the listing is May 11, 2009 (with an earlier original closing date of April 9, 2009). For applicants who cannot access the full announcement electronically, the listed program contact is Lisa Price Grear, Program Analyst, at 202-616-3561.

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