OpportunityTitle: NIJ FY 2021 Invitation to Apply - Criminal Justice Testing and Evaluation Consortium
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Only the applicants that received an official invitation letter from NIJ are able and eligible to apply. Please refer to that letter for the eligibility requirements.  All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.
Description: With this solicitation, NIJ seeks to continue funding the Criminal Justice Testing and Evaluation Consortium. The consortium informs NIJ&#8217;s research and development efforts, as well as NIJ&#8217;s stakeholders &#8212; criminal justice practitioners, policymakers, researchers, federal partners, and private industry by: 1) conducting technology foraging activities to identify technologies for potential use by criminal justice communities; 2) conducting characterization/comparative testing and evaluations on technologies and practices to disseminate information and/or promising practices for adoption; 3) administering the NIJ Compliance Testing Program (CTP); and 4) supporting the development, validation, and maintenance of criminal justice equipment standards. Statutory Authority: Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (sections 201 and 202); the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (sections 231-233, 235); and 28 U.S.C. 530C.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Agency POC
GrantorContactText: For technical assistance with submitting the SF-424 and SF- LLL in Grants.gov, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800-518-4726, 606-545-5035, at Grants.gov customer support webpage, or email at support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;For technical assistance with submitting the full application in DOJ&amp;rsquo;s Justice Grants System (JustGrants), contact the JustGrants Service Desk at JustGrants.Support@usdoj.gov, 833-872-5175. The JustGrants Service Desk operates 5 a.m. - 9.p.m. EST Monday - Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sunday, and Federal holidays.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;An applicant that experiences unforeseen Grants.gov or JustGrants technical issues beyond its control that prevent it from submitting its application by the deadline must email the NIJ contact identified below within 24 hours after the application deadline to request approval to submit its application after the deadline. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Steven Schuetz, Senior Scientist, by telephone at 202-598-9388, or by email at Steven.Schuetz@ojp.usdoj.gov.&lt;br/&gt;Steven.Schuetz@ojp.usdoj.gov