RFI - NIBRS ANALYTIC SUPPORT.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS (OJP)

BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS (BJS)

NATIONAL INCIDENT-BASED REPORTING SYSTEM (NIBRS)

ANALYTIC SUPPORT PROGRAM (ASP)

This Request for Information (RFI) is the initiation of market research under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. This announcement does not constitute an Invitation for Bids (IFB), Request for Quote (RFQ), or a Request for Proposal (RFP), and it should not be construed as a commitment of any kind by the Government to issue a formal solicitation or ultimately award a contract. Responses to this notice cannot be accepted as offers.

The Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Acquisition Management Division (AMD) is issuing this notice to identify qualified and responsible businesses within Small Business Administration (SBA)’s 8(a) Business Development Program that can support BJS’s requirement for Analytic Support for NIBRS data.

The Government anticipates the applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to these services to be 541611 - Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services. Contractors must be properly registered in the Government System for Award Management at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/.

Background

As of January 1, 2021, the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) became the national standard for law enforcement crime data reporting in the United States. The transition to NIBRS represents a significant shift – and improvement – in how reported crime is measured and estimated by the federal government. Since 2013, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has been supporting the NIBRS transition effort through the National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X) initiative.

The NCS-X initiative has three primary program components: 1) providing technical assistance to local law enforcement agencies as they transition to incident-based crime reporting, 2) engaging in analytic work to showcase the uses of NIBRS for enhancing understanding of crime, and 3) national estimation, which involves, in part, examining the quality and coverage of NIBRS data to determine its suitability for use in generating national estimates of crime and arrest.

Objective and Scope

The objective is to obtain qualified contractor support to establish a well-defined NIBRS analytic and database infrastructure, implement a platform to provide technical and analytic assistance to law enforcement agencies to use their own agency-specific NIBRS data, and develop and track a set of key indicators of crime and public safety from a subset of large U.S. cities.

Project Components

• Provide the technological, database management, data science, and analytic infrastructure to effectively develop statistical and research products based on NIBRS data.

• Establish a set of resources to assist law enforcement agencies (LEAs) in the use of incident-based crime data and other law enforcement operational information, to better understand crime in their local communities and address problems with targeted, data-driven interventions.

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• Develop and implement a program to extract, transform, and load (ETL) select indicators of crime, public safety, and community wellness from a subset of large cities in the U.S.

Task

A. NIBRS Statistical Analysis and Database Infrastructure Management

• Data analysis services to support the generation of reports and other statistical products

• Examination of NIBRS data quality by establishing an automated set of routines centered around key metrics of quality and completeness

• Developing a data management infrastructure that allows for data file creation, manipulation, and storage solutions for large, complex data files

• Provide data visualization support services for statistical products, including online reports, data tools, and traditional PDF-type publications

• Provide data science and technical support services to support the BJS NIBRS data analysis and visualization tool.

B. NIBRS Technical Assistance and Repository Platform

• Establish a technical assistance resource repository of templates and real-world examples for using NIBRS data for crime prevention, evaluation, and resource allocation.

• Create data tools capable of on-demand analysis of agency-level data, with accompanying templates for visualizing the analyses.

C. Community Safety and Wellness (CSAW) Tracker

• Specify a set of key macro-level indicators of crime and public safety to include in the CSAW Tracker.

• Identify large cities to recruit for this data collection effort; supporting outreach and facilitating discussion with the agencies as part of the recruitment process.

• Draft a technical specification or other type of data exchange documentation that will enable direct connections, via API or similar, of LEA and other data to a system supported by BJS/OJP.

• Determine the periodicity of data updates to the CSAW Tracker, including if the periodicity needs to be variable across different sources of data used by the tracker.

• Establish a preliminary data dashboard, for use by BJS and project staff, to examine the quality of the data in the CSAW Tracker, and drafting a public-facing dashboard for general access to the data.

Contractor Capabilities

The objectives and tasks of this requirement must be met by personnel who are highly skilled and experienced in delivering scientific and technical support for statistical and methodological research, statistical analysis, documentation, and dissemination related to BJS work on crime and victimization.

To this end, the Office of Justice Programs is seeking sources that can demonstrate their experience, skills, and qualifications with projects of similar scope and size completed within the last 3 years and explain in appropriate detail how they intend to demonstrate competency in each of the points listed below:

1. Demonstrated experience managing projects of similar size and scope to meet government objectives, ensuring the quality and timeliness of deliverables, and coordinating with government funding agencies.

2. Demonstrate experience working with large scale administrative datasets and federal statistical data.

3. Demonstrate survey methodologist experience with administrative data collection.

4. Demonstrate expertise in data visualization.

5. Experience with providing day-to-day oversight on project finances and coordinating with subject matter expert consultants.

Information Submission Instructions

In addition to addressing the items above, the response should also include the following information:

• Vendor’s name, address, points of contact information, website, DUNS, and cage code.

• Vendor’s current business designation and size status.

• Vendor’s tailored capability statements addressing the general areas of this requirement, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements.

• Vendor’s narrative on relevant experience in FOIA support services.

• Vendor’s Past Performance – Provide a list of previous contracts where similar services were provided. Provide customer/Government Agency contact information where these services were provided including: contact name and organization, telephone number, and email address.

All responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically (via e-mail) to Karen Washington, Contracts Specialist, at Karen.Washington@ojp.usdoj.gov. Facsimile responses will not be accepted. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. Interested vendors should monitor a government point of entry site for further information. Your firm’s response to this RFI is appreciated.

Submission Time and Date

Responses to the information provided above are due no later than April 18, 2022 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time. Responses received after this date and time may not be considered.

Disclaimer and Important Notes

This RFI is for information and planning purposes only and shall NOT be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the Government. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in the response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate.

Any concern responding to this notice should ensure that its’ response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the concern’s qualifications to perform the work.

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Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation MAY be published.

However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation.

The Government may or may not choose to meet with potential interested parties. Such meetings and discussions would be only to get further clarification of potential capability. No phone solicitations or email with regards to the status of a potential Request for Proposal (RFP) will be accepted prior to its release. Information and materials submitted in response to this notice WILL NOT be returned.

The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses received nor otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted.

As a result of this notice, the Government MAY issue a Request for Proposal (RFP). There is no solicitation available at this time. However, should such a requirement materialize, no basis for claims against the Government shall arise as a result of a response to this RFI or the Government’s use of such information as either part of our evaluation process or in developing specifications for any subsequent requirement.

Confidentiality

No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).