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Criminal history records

National Prisoner Statistics and National Corrections Reporting Program

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 of 2015 through 2019. This marks the first time the two programs will be competed as a single package. The NPS and NCRP are flagship data collections for BJS that measure the size and...

FY 2017 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 and by ensuring the nationwide implementation of criminal justice and noncriminal justice background check systems. Achieving this goal is contingent on accomplishing four objectives: Providing direct financial and technical assistance to states and tribes to improve their criminal records systems and other...