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Criminal history records

National Prisoner Statistics Program (NPS) and the National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP), 2015-2019

Closing Date
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks a data collection and analysis agent for the National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS) and the National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) for the data years 2015 through 2019. This marks the first time the two programs will be competed together. The NPS and NCRP are BJS’s flagship data collections measuring the size and composition of state and federal prison...

FY 2016 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)

Closing Date
This program is intended to improve the nation's safety and security by enhancing the quality, completeness, and accessibility of criminal history record information used for criminal justice and noncriminal justice background checks. Four objectives are targeted: (1) providing direct financial and technical assistance to states and tribes to improve their criminal records systems and other related systems in an effort to support background checks; (2)...