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Nation, Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico that this
notice has been published.
Dated: February 12, 2009
Sangita Chari,
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Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural
Items: U.S. Department of the Interior,
National Park Service, San Juan Island
National Historical Park, Friday Harbor,
WA and Thomas Burke Memorial
Washington State Museum, University
of Washington, Seattle, WA; Correction
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice; correction.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent
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to repatriate cultural items in the
possession of the Thomas Burke
Memorial Washington State Museum
(Burke Museum), University of
Washington, Seattle, WA, and in the
control of the U.S. Department of the
Interior, San Juan Island National
Historical Park, Friday Harbor, WA, that
meet the definition of ‘‘unassociated
funerary objects’’ under 25 U.S.C 3001.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations
in this notice are the sole responsibility
of the superintendent, San Juan Island
National Historical Park.
This notice corrects the number of
unassociated funerary objects reported
in a Notice of Intent to Repatriate
published in the Federal Register (73
FR 50989 – 50990, August 29, 2008).
After the notice was published it was
discovered that several unassociated
funerary objects were counted twice.
In the Federal Register (73 FR 50989
– 50990, August 29, 2008), paragraph
numbers 4–5 are corrected by
substituting the following paragraphs:
Four objects were recovered in 1970
from the same stratum in which a burial
was found. The human remains were
transferred to the University of Idaho
before being repatriated to the Lummi
Tribe of the Lummi Reservation,
Washington on June 26, 1991. The four
funerary objects were transferred to the
Burke Museum and accessioned by the
National Park Service. The four
unassociated funerary objects are one
portion of a non-human mammalian
limb bone, one basalt shatter fragment,
one triangular basalt point fragment,
and one ground abrader fragment.
The 1972 excavation recovered 28
objects that were associated with three
burials. The human remains were
transferred to the University of Idaho
and subsequently repatriated to the
Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation,
Washington on June 26, 1991. The
funerary objects were transferred to the
Burke Museum and accessioned by the
National Park Service. The 28
unassociated funerary objects are 2 fish
vertebrae, 1 antler tine fragment, 1 fused
bird wing bone, 23 fragments of
nonhuman bone, and 1 piece of fire
modified rock.
Paragraph number 9 is corrected by
substituting the following paragraph:
Officials of San Juan Island National
Historical Park have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the
281 cultural items described above are
reasonably believed to have been placed
with or near individual human remains
at the time of death or later as part of
the death rite or ceremony and are
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believed, by a preponderance of the
evidence, to have been removed from
specific burial sites of Native American
individuals. Officials of San Juan Island
National Historical Park also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be
reasonably traced between the
unassociated funerary objects and the
Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation,
Washington.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the unassociated funerary
objects should contact Peter Dederich,
superintendent, San Juan Island
National Historical Park, P.O. Box 429,
Friday Harbor, WA 98250–04289,
telephone (360) 378–2240, before April
13, 2009. Repatriation of the
unassociated funerary objects to the
Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation,
Washington may proceed after that date
if no additional claimants come
forward.
San Juan Island National Historical
Park is responsible for notifying the
Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation,
Washington; Samish Indian Tribe,
Washington; and Swinomish Indians of
the Swinomish Reservation, Washington
that this notice has been published.
Dated: January 26, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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National Institute of Corrections
Solicitation for a Cooperative
Agreement: Document—A Guide to
Developing a Jail Information System
AGENCY: National Institute of
Corrections, Department of Justice.
ACTION: Solicitation for a Cooperative
Agreement.
SUMMARY: The National Institute of
Corrections, Jails Division, is seeking
applications for the development of a
document that provides jail
administrators, managers, and technical
support staff with a practical guide to
developing and using a jail information
system.
DATES: Applications must be received
by 4 p.m. (EDT) on April 2, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit mailed applications
to: Director, National Institute of
Corrections, 320 First Street, NW., Room
5007, Washington, DC 20534.
Applicants are encouraged to use
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Federal Express, UPS, or a similar
service to ensure delivery by the due
date.
Submit hand-delivered applications
to 500 First Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20534. At the front desk, dial 7–
3106, ext. 0 for pickup.
Faxed or e-mailed applications will
not be accepted. Submit electronic
applications via https://www.grants.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Download a copy of this announcement
from the NIC Web site at https://
www.nicic.gov.
Direct all technical or programmatic
questions concerning this
announcement to Fran Zandi,
Correctional Program Specialist,
National Institute of Corrections. She
can be reached by calling 1–800–995–
6423, ext. 7–1070 or by e-mail at
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: Each day jail
administrators and practitioners
routinely make decisions about jail
management and operations that have a
significant influence on resource
acquisition and management, inmate
supervision and behavior management,
staffing levels, staff performance,
planning for future jail construction,
and population management. To make
effective decisions, jail administrators
and managers should have sufficient
information to assess the issue at hand,
identify their options, project the
implications of those options, choose
the best option that they can explain
and justify clearly, and plan and
implement the choice.
Accurate and timely information is
essential not only to decisions about jail
operations, but also to the work of the
local criminal justice system. The jail is
an integral part of this system, and jail
practitioners must be able to provide
information about the inmate
population to criminal justice
stakeholders as they develop strategies
to manage the system to ensure its
overall effectiveness and efficiency.
Information is critical to
decisionmaking, and jails must develop
the analytic infrastructure needed to
turn data into useful information.
NIC has produced documents in the
past such as ‘‘How to Collect and
Analyze Data: A Manual for Sheriffs and
Jail Administrators,’’ ‘‘Jail Crowding—
Understanding Jail Population
Dynamics,’’ ‘‘Objective Jail
Classification: A Guide for Jail
Administrators,’’ and the three-part
‘‘Budget Guide for Jail Administrators.’’
Each of these documents provides
specific information and instruction
about a particular component of jail
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operations. The proposed document
should not replicate the previous
material but provide a framework for
jurisdictions to develop an overall
information system.
Objectives: The National Institute of
Corrections wishes to produce a
document that gives jail administrators,
managers, and technical support staff
guidance on defining an information
system, identifying the decisions for
which administrators need data,
building a data collection plan,
determining access to and distribution
of the data, and planning for
automation.
Document Audience: This guide is for
use by jail administrators, managers,
and technical support staff in jails of all
sizes.
Use of Document: The document will
be a practical guide for developing a
comprehensive jail management
information system.
Document Distribution: NIC expects
to distribute the document widely. It
will make the document available on
the NIC Web site and through the NIC
Information Center, upon request and
free of charge.
Document Content: The document
will be a clear, practical guide for jail
administrators, managers, and technical
support staff on defining, building, and
using an information system. It must
account for diversity among jails in
terms of their relative size and
resources. The document will include,
at a minimum, (1) A description or
definition of an information system.
(Agencies often assume the term
‘‘information system’’ refers only to an
automated system or computer system.)
Researchers have well documented the
benefit of collecting and analyzing data.
Jurisdictions, however, have less
success in developing a system that
gathers critical data at specific intervals,
uses the data for decisionmaking, and
gives stakeholders access to the data in
a well-designed manner. An information
system must be more than a data
repository. (2) Guidance on how to
build a data collection plan or process.
The document should outline the
process in developing a data collection
plan. Activities such as agreeing on a
common strategy, addressing each
participant’s needs, building in
accountability and quality assurance for
data input, and understanding its
limitations are necessary to developing
a robust and sustainable plan. (3)
Identification of the types of decisions
for which data is needed, such as those
relating to new jail planning, the
implementation and effectiveness of
inmate programs, staffing levels, budget
needs, staff performance, inmate
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behavior management, inmate risk and
needs assessment, and inmate
population management. The document
should lead jail practitioners to the
realization that organized, quality data
is essential to effective decisionmaking.
(4) A brief discussion of statistics, how
to interpret them, and how to turn data
into usable information. The document
should include an appendix with tools,
forms, and supplementary materials that
will assist jurisdictions in developing,
implementing, and managing their
information system. (5) Specific
examples of how jails have used
information systems successfully (brief
case studies or other strategy). (6)
Discussion of retention schedules.
Although retention schedules vary from
state to state, retaining paper documents
and electronic material for a specific
length of time is critical to the
development of an information system.
Although retention schedules most
often refer to paper files and materials,
the document should also address
electronic storage. (7) Guidance on
broadening the use of data management
throughout the larger criminal justice
system. The jail is one component of the
criminal justice system, but it can
provide critical data to criminal justice
stakeholders as they grapple with
planning and policy development. (8)
Guidance on preparing for automation.
Jurisdictions are often ill equipped to
evaluate and select an automated system
and may be unsatisfied with the results.
Changing or modifying business
practices is just one component of
preparing for automation that is
overlooked or misunderstood. The
document should assist jurisdictions in
identifying possible barriers to
successful automation. (9) A glossary of
terms applicable to this project.
Project Description: The awardee will
produce a completed document that has
received initial editing from a
professional editor. NIC will be
responsible for the final editing process
and document design, but the awardee
will remain available during this time to
answer questions and revise to the
document as necessary.
Project Schedule: The following list
shows the major activities required to
complete the project. Document
development will begin upon award of
this agreement and must be completed
18 months after the award date. The
schedule for completion of activities
should include, at a minimum, meeting
with an NIC project manager for an
overview of the project and initial
planning; reviewing materials that NIC
provides; completing the initial outline
of document content and layout;
meeting with an NIC project manager to
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review, discuss, and agree on a content
outline; researching content topics and
related resources; submitting draft
sections of the document to NIC for
review; revising draft sections for NIC’s
approval; submitting the document to
an editor that the awardee has hired for
first content edit; submitting a draft of
the entire document to NIC for review;
revising the document for NIC’s
approval; and submitting the document
to NIC in hard copy and on disk in
Microsoft Word 1997–2003 format.
Throughout the project period, the
awardee should make provisions for
meetings with NIC staff, to be held in
Washington, DC, at critical planning
and review points in document’s
development.
Document Preparation: For all awards
in which a document will be a
deliverable, the awardee must follow
the Guidelines for Preparing and
Submitting Manuscripts for Publication
as found in the ‘‘General Guidelines for
Cooperative Agreements,’’ which will be
included in the award package.
Application Requirements: An
application package must include OMB
Standard Form 424, Application for
Federal Assistance; a cover letter
identifying the audit agency responsible
for the applicant’s financial accounts as
well as the audit period or fiscal year
that the applicant operates under (e.g.,
July 1 through June 30); and an outline
of projected costs. The following
additional forms must also be included:
OMB Standard Form 424A, Budget
Information—Non-Construction
Programs; OMB Standard Form 424B,
Assurances—Non-Construction
Programs (both available at https://
www.grants.gov) and DOJ/NIC
Certification Regarding Lobbying;
Debarment, Suspension and Other
Responsibility Matters; and the DrugFree Workplace Requirements (available
at https://www.nicic.gov/Downloads/
PDF/certif-frm.pdf).
The application should be written
concisely, typed double-spaced, and
reference the NIC application number
and title provided in this
announcement.
If you are hand delivering or
submitting an application via Fed-Ex,
please include an original and three
copies of your full proposal (program
and budget narrative, application forms,
and assurances). The original should
have the applicant’s signature in blue
ink. As previously stated, electronic
submissions will only be accepted via
https://www.grants.gov.
The narrative portion of the
application should include, at a
minimum, a brief paragraph indicating
the applicant’s understanding of the
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purpose of the document and the issues
to be addressed; a brief paragraph
summarizing the project’s goals and
objectives; a clear description of the
methodology that will be used to
complete the project and achieve its
goals; a statement or chart of measurable
project milestones and timelines for
completing each milestone; a
description of the qualifications of the
applicant organization and a resume for
the principle and each staff member
assigned to the project that documents
relevant knowledge, skills, and ability to
carry out the project; a minimum of
three references for which the applicant
has provided similar service; a budget
that details all costs for the project,
showing consideration for all
contingencies for this project, and notes
a commitment to work within the
proposed budget; and a sample of at
least one document completed by the
applicant.
Applicants must specify their role in
the production of the sample
document(s).
Authority: Public Law 93–415.
Funds Available: NIC is seeking
applicants’ best ideas regarding
accomplishments of the scope of work
and the related costs for achieving the
goals of this solicitation. Awardees may
use funds only for the activities linked
to the desired outcome of the project.
Eligibility of Applicants: Applications
are solicited from any state or general
unit of local government, private
agency, educational institution,
organization, individual or team with
expertise in the described areas.
Applicants must have demonstrated
ability to implement a project of this
size and scope.
Review Considerations: A team of NIC
staff will review all applications.
Among the criteria to evaluate the
applications are an indication of a clear
understanding of the project
requirements; background, experience,
and expertise of the proposed project
staff, including any subcontractors;
effectiveness of the creative approach to
the project; clear, concise description of
all elements and tasks of the project,
with sufficient and realistic timeframes
necessary to complete the tasks;
technical soundness of project design
and methodology; financial and
administrative integrity of the proposal,
including adherence to federal financial
guidelines and processes; a sufficiently
detailed budget that shows
consideration of all contingencies for
this project and commitment to work
within the budget proposed; working
knowledge of jails and jail and criminal
justice information systems; and
availability to meet with NIC staff.
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Note: NIC will NOT award a cooperative
agreement to an applicant who does not have
a Dun and Bradstreet Database Universal
Number (DUNS) and is not registered in the
Central Contractor Registry (CCR).
Applicants can receive a DUNS
number at no cost by calling the
dedicated toll-free DUNS number
request line at 1–800–333–0505 (if you
are a sole proprietor, dial 1–866–705–
5711 and select option 1).
Applicants may register in the CCR
online at the CCR Web site: https://
www.ccr.gov. A CCR handbook and
worksheet can also be reviewed at the
Web site.
Number of Awards: One.
Applicants’ Conference: An
applicants’ conference will be held on
March 25, 2009 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
(EDT) at the NIC office, 500 1st Street,
NW., 7th Floor, Washington, DC. The
conference will give applicants the
opportunity to meet with NIC project
staff to ask questions about the project
and the application procedures.
Attendance at the conference is
optional, and those who will be unable
to attend in person may request a
telephone conference instead.
Applicants who plan to attend or who
would like to participate via telephone
should call Fran Zandi, NIC Jails
Division, Correctional Program
Specialist, at 1–800–995–6423, ext. 7–
1070 by 4:30 p.m. (EDT) on March 20,
2009 to confirm attendance.
NIC Application Number 09J68.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Number: 16.601
Executive Order 12372: This project is
not subject to the provisions of
Executive Order 12372.
Thomas J. Beauclair,
Deputy Director, National Institute of
Corrections.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
National Institute of Corrections
Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement: Document--A Guide to
Developing a Jail Information System
AGENCY: National Institute of Corrections, Department of Justice.
ACTION: Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement.
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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Corrections, Jails Division, is
seeking applications for the development of a document that provides
jail administrators, managers, and technical support staff with a
practical guide to developing and using a jail information system.
DATES: Applications must be received by 4 p.m. (EDT) on April 2, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit mailed applications to: Director, National Institute
of Corrections, 320 First Street, NW., Room 5007, Washington, DC 20534.
Applicants are encouraged to use
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Federal Express, UPS, or a similar service to ensure delivery by the
due date.
Submit hand-delivered applications to 500 First Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20534. At the front desk, dial 7-3106, ext. 0 for
pickup.
Faxed or e-mailed applications will not be accepted. Submit
electronic applications via https://www.grants.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Download a copy of this announcement
from the NIC Web site at https://www.nicic.gov.
Direct all technical or programmatic questions concerning this
announcement to Fran Zandi, Correctional Program Specialist, National
Institute of Corrections. She can be reached by calling 1-800-995-6423,
ext. 7-1070 or by e-mail at fzandi@bop.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: Each day jail administrators and practitioners
routinely make decisions about jail management and operations that have
a significant influence on resource acquisition and management, inmate
supervision and behavior management, staffing levels, staff
performance, planning for future jail construction, and population
management. To make effective decisions, jail administrators and
managers should have sufficient information to assess the issue at
hand, identify their options, project the implications of those
options, choose the best option that they can explain and justify
clearly, and plan and implement the choice.
Accurate and timely information is essential not only to decisions
about jail operations, but also to the work of the local criminal
justice system. The jail is an integral part of this system, and jail
practitioners must be able to provide information about the inmate
population to criminal justice stakeholders as they develop strategies
to manage the system to ensure its overall effectiveness and
efficiency. Information is critical to decisionmaking, and jails must
develop the analytic infrastructure needed to turn data into useful
information.
NIC has produced documents in the past such as ``How to Collect and
Analyze Data: A Manual for Sheriffs and Jail Administrators,'' ``Jail
Crowding--Understanding Jail Population Dynamics,'' ``Objective Jail
Classification: A Guide for Jail Administrators,'' and the three-part
``Budget Guide for Jail Administrators.'' Each of these documents
provides specific information and instruction about a particular
component of jail operations. The proposed document should not
replicate the previous material but provide a framework for
jurisdictions to develop an overall information system.
Objectives: The National Institute of Corrections wishes to produce
a document that gives jail administrators, managers, and technical
support staff guidance on defining an information system, identifying
the decisions for which administrators need data, building a data
collection plan, determining access to and distribution of the data,
and planning for automation.
Document Audience: This guide is for use by jail administrators,
managers, and technical support staff in jails of all sizes.
Use of Document: The document will be a practical guide for
developing a comprehensive jail management information system.
Document Distribution: NIC expects to distribute the document
widely. It will make the document available on the NIC Web site and
through the NIC Information Center, upon request and free of charge.
Document Content: The document will be a clear, practical guide for
jail administrators, managers, and technical support staff on defining,
building, and using an information system. It must account for
diversity among jails in terms of their relative size and resources.
The document will include, at a minimum, (1) A description or
definition of an information system. (Agencies often assume the term
``information system'' refers only to an automated system or computer
system.) Researchers have well documented the benefit of collecting and
analyzing data. Jurisdictions, however, have less success in developing
a system that gathers critical data at specific intervals, uses the
data for decisionmaking, and gives stakeholders access to the data in a
well-designed manner. An information system must be more than a data
repository. (2) Guidance on how to build a data collection plan or
process. The document should outline the process in developing a data
collection plan. Activities such as agreeing on a common strategy,
addressing each participant's needs, building in accountability and
quality assurance for data input, and understanding its limitations are
necessary to developing a robust and sustainable plan. (3)
Identification of the types of decisions for which data is needed, such
as those relating to new jail planning, the implementation and
effectiveness of inmate programs, staffing levels, budget needs, staff
performance, inmate behavior management, inmate risk and needs
assessment, and inmate population management. The document should lead
jail practitioners to the realization that organized, quality data is
essential to effective decisionmaking. (4) A brief discussion of
statistics, how to interpret them, and how to turn data into usable
information. The document should include an appendix with tools, forms,
and supplementary materials that will assist jurisdictions in
developing, implementing, and managing their information system. (5)
Specific examples of how jails have used information systems
successfully (brief case studies or other strategy). (6) Discussion of
retention schedules. Although retention schedules vary from state to
state, retaining paper documents and electronic material for a specific
length of time is critical to the development of an information system.
Although retention schedules most often refer to paper files and
materials, the document should also address electronic storage. (7)
Guidance on broadening the use of data management throughout the larger
criminal justice system. The jail is one component of the criminal
justice system, but it can provide critical data to criminal justice
stakeholders as they grapple with planning and policy development. (8)
Guidance on preparing for automation. Jurisdictions are often ill
equipped to evaluate and select an automated system and may be
unsatisfied with the results. Changing or modifying business practices
is just one component of preparing for automation that is overlooked or
misunderstood. The document should assist jurisdictions in identifying
possible barriers to successful automation. (9) A glossary of terms
applicable to this project.
Project Description: The awardee will produce a completed document
that has received initial editing from a professional editor. NIC will
be responsible for the final editing process and document design, but
the awardee will remain available during this time to answer questions
and revise to the document as necessary.
Project Schedule: The following list shows the major activities
required to complete the project. Document development will begin upon
award of this agreement and must be completed 18 months after the award
date. The schedule for completion of activities should include, at a
minimum, meeting with an NIC project manager for an overview of the
project and initial planning; reviewing materials that NIC provides;
completing the initial outline of document content and layout; meeting
with an NIC project manager to
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review, discuss, and agree on a content outline; researching content
topics and related resources; submitting draft sections of the document
to NIC for review; revising draft sections for NIC's approval;
submitting the document to an editor that the awardee has hired for
first content edit; submitting a draft of the entire document to NIC
for review; revising the document for NIC's approval; and submitting
the document to NIC in hard copy and on disk in Microsoft Word 1997-
2003 format.
Throughout the project period, the awardee should make provisions
for meetings with NIC staff, to be held in Washington, DC, at critical
planning and review points in document's development.
Document Preparation: For all awards in which a document will be a
deliverable, the awardee must follow the Guidelines for Preparing and
Submitting Manuscripts for Publication as found in the ``General
Guidelines for Cooperative Agreements,'' which will be included in the
award package.
Application Requirements: An application package must include OMB
Standard Form 424, Application for Federal Assistance; a cover letter
identifying the audit agency responsible for the applicant's financial
accounts as well as the audit period or fiscal year that the applicant
operates under (e.g., July 1 through June 30); and an outline of
projected costs. The following additional forms must also be included:
OMB Standard Form 424A, Budget Information--Non-Construction Programs;
OMB Standard Form 424B, Assurances--Non-Construction Programs (both
available at https://www.grants.gov) and DOJ/NIC Certification Regarding
Lobbying; Debarment, Suspension and Other Responsibility Matters; and
the Drug-Free Workplace Requirements (available at https://
www.nicic.gov/Downloads/PDF/certif-frm.pdf).
The application should be written concisely, typed double-spaced,
and reference the NIC application number and title provided in this
announcement.
If you are hand delivering or submitting an application via Fed-Ex,
please include an original and three copies of your full proposal
(program and budget narrative, application forms, and assurances). The
original should have the applicant's signature in blue ink. As
previously stated, electronic submissions will only be accepted via
https://www.grants.gov.
The narrative portion of the application should include, at a
minimum, a brief paragraph indicating the applicant's understanding of
the purpose of the document and the issues to be addressed; a brief
paragraph summarizing the project's goals and objectives; a clear
description of the methodology that will be used to complete the
project and achieve its goals; a statement or chart of measurable
project milestones and timelines for completing each milestone; a
description of the qualifications of the applicant organization and a
resume for the principle and each staff member assigned to the project
that documents relevant knowledge, skills, and ability to carry out the
project; a minimum of three references for which the applicant has
provided similar service; a budget that details all costs for the
project, showing consideration for all contingencies for this project,
and notes a commitment to work within the proposed budget; and a sample
of at least one document completed by the applicant.
Applicants must specify their role in the production of the sample
document(s).
Authority: Public Law 93-415.
Funds Available: NIC is seeking applicants' best ideas regarding
accomplishments of the scope of work and the related costs for
achieving the goals of this solicitation. Awardees may use funds only
for the activities linked to the desired outcome of the project.
Eligibility of Applicants: Applications are solicited from any
state or general unit of local government, private agency, educational
institution, organization, individual or team with expertise in the
described areas. Applicants must have demonstrated ability to implement
a project of this size and scope.
Review Considerations: A team of NIC staff will review all
applications.
Among the criteria to evaluate the applications are an indication
of a clear understanding of the project requirements; background,
experience, and expertise of the proposed project staff, including any
subcontractors; effectiveness of the creative approach to the project;
clear, concise description of all elements and tasks of the project,
with sufficient and realistic timeframes necessary to complete the
tasks; technical soundness of project design and methodology; financial
and administrative integrity of the proposal, including adherence to
federal financial guidelines and processes; a sufficiently detailed
budget that shows consideration of all contingencies for this project
and commitment to work within the budget proposed; working knowledge of
jails and jail and criminal justice information systems; and
availability to meet with NIC staff.
Note: NIC will NOT award a cooperative agreement to an applicant
who does not have a Dun and Bradstreet Database Universal Number
(DUNS) and is not registered in the Central Contractor Registry
(CCR).
Applicants can receive a DUNS number at no cost by calling the
dedicated toll-free DUNS number request line at 1-800-333-0505 (if you
are a sole proprietor, dial 1-866-705-5711 and select option 1).
Applicants may register in the CCR online at the CCR Web site:
https://www.ccr.gov. A CCR handbook and worksheet can also be reviewed
at the Web site.
Number of Awards: One.
Applicants' Conference: An applicants' conference will be held on
March 25, 2009 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. (EDT) at the NIC office, 500 1st
Street, NW., 7th Floor, Washington, DC. The conference will give
applicants the opportunity to meet with NIC project staff to ask
questions about the project and the application procedures. Attendance
at the conference is optional, and those who will be unable to attend
in person may request a telephone conference instead. Applicants who
plan to attend or who would like to participate via telephone should
call Fran Zandi, NIC Jails Division, Correctional Program Specialist,
at 1-800-995-6423, ext. 7-1070 by 4:30 p.m. (EDT) on March 20, 2009 to
confirm attendance.
NIC Application Number 09J68.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 16.601
Executive Order 12372: This project is not subject to the
provisions of Executive Order 12372.
Thomas J. Beauclair,
Deputy Director, National Institute of Corrections.
[FR Doc. E9-5406 Filed 3-11-09; 8:45 am]
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