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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
National Institute of Corrections
Solicitation for a Cooperative
Agreement—Sexual Safety in Women’s
Institutions
National Institute of
Corrections, U.S. Department of Justice.
ACTION: Solicitation for a Cooperative
Agreement.
AGENCY:
The National Institute of
Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals
from organizations, groups, or
individuals to enter into a cooperative
agreement for an 18-month period to
begin no later than September 15, 2013.
Work under this cooperative agreement
will involve the development and
piloting of a blended-learning
curriculum, which could include the
use of virtual instructor-led training
(VILT), to address the safety of women
inmates within correctional institutions.
The audience for this curriculum
represents correctional staff, volunteers,
contractors, community stakeholders
who work within women’s correctional
institutions, and community residential
facilities. This project will be a
collaborative venture with the NIC
Community Services Division.
NIC Opportunity Number: 13CS10.
This number should appear in the
reference line in your cover letter, on
Standard Form 424 in section 11 with
the title of your proposal, and in the
right justified header of your proposal.
Number of Awards and Funds
Available: Under this solicitation, 1
(one) award will be made. The total
amount of funds available under this
solicitation is $80,000.00. Funds
awarded under this solicitation may
only be used for activities directly
related to the project as described herein
unless otherwise amended in writing by
NIC.
Applications: All applicants must be
submitted electronically via https://
www.grants.gov. Hand delivered,
mailed, faxed, or emailed applications
will not be accepted.
DATES: Application must be submitted
before midnight on Tuesday, July 16,
2013.
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SUMMARY:
Authority: Public Law 93–415.
Eligibility of Applicants: An eligible
applicant is any public or private
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agency, educational institution,
organization, individual or team with
expertise in the described areas.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: In 2006 the National
Institute of Justice (NIJ) funded a study
titled ‘‘Gendered Violence and Safety: A
Contextual Approach to Improving
Security in Women’s Facilities.’’ More
recently, the National Institute of
Corrections funded the Prison Rape
Elimination Act (PREA) Validation
Project for Improving Safety in Women’s
Facilities (cooperative agreement
#10PEI34GKB6), which further
contributed to the body of work
addressing this issue. Sandwiched
between those efforts has been the
release of the PREA National Standards
to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to
Prison Rape, released in 2012, which
has significant implications for
correctional settings housing women
and girls. A collection of standards
comparison materials is available on the
Web at the following locations: https://
nicic.gov/Library/026085; https://
nicic.gov/Library/026082; https://
nicic.gov/Library/026083; https://
nicic.gov/Library/026084. Over the past
few decades, through research efforts
and improved practice, the corrections
profession has had access to a great deal
of information, which has influenced
continuing research efforts, training,
assessment and classification,
development of program models, and
the creation of promising practices
specific to improving system outcomes
and individual outcomes for justiceinvolved women. While many current
practices within criminal justice are
seen as applicable to both justiceinvolved men and women, more
recently the corrections profession has
had opportunities to sharpen practice
and more effectively manage resources
in working with women in correctional
settings.
Scope of Work: The awardee must
develop a blended learning curriculum,
including the piloting of the curriculum.
The curriculum must use a variety of
delivery methodologies, which could
include readings, case study review,
webinars, onsite delivery, and pre- and
post-training activities. A virtual
instructor-led training format will be
considered if it can be demonstrated
that the transfer of knowledge to the
participants is effective. Awardees
should develop the materials specific to
physical and sexual safety in women’s
correctional facilities, based on current
research, knowledge, best practice, and
reflective of the experiences of
corrections professionals and the target
population. It should also include
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outlined method(s) for the transfer of
learning, opportunities for skills
practice, follow up coaching/assistance,
and a method to measure the
effectiveness of the training curriculum.
The deliverables will help advance and
foster professional correctional
environments while enhancing safety
and security and positively influencing
systems, staff, and justice-involved
women.
Deliverables: Tasks to be performed
through this cooperative agreement
include: (1) Conducting a literature
search to contribute to curriculum
development (2) convening a working
session at an approved location;
designing the working agenda;
providing facilitation; and using content
from the session to inform project
deliverables. Working session
participants will be identified in
collaboration with and upon the
approval of the NIC project staff. (3)
working with NIC project staff and
designated experts to develop
deliverables. Deliverables could include
a facilitator’s manual and participant
workbook, audiovisual materials,
supplemental readings, pre/post
measures of learning and other materials
that facilitate learning. (4) developing
and delivering the final curriculum
modeled on the instructional theory into
practice format (5) creating a final report
that summarizes the project.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: All
technical or programmatic questions
concerning this announcement should
be directed to Maureen Buell,
Correctional Program Specialist,
National Institute of Corrections, who
may be reached by email at
mbuell@bop.gov. In addition to the
direct reply, all questions and responses
will be posted on NIC’s Web site at
www.nicic.gov for public review (the
names or affiliations of those submitting
questions will not be posted). The Web
site will be updated regularly and
postings will remain on the Web site
until the closing date of this cooperative
agreement solicitation.
Application Requirements:
Application Requirements: Applications
should be typed, double spaced, in 12point font, and reference the project by
the ‘‘NIC Opportunity Number’’
(13CS10) and title in this
announcement, ‘‘Sexual Safety in
Women’s Institutions.’’ The package
must include: a cover letter that
identifies 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); a concisely
written program narrative, not to exceed
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30 numbered pages, in response to the
statement of work, and a detailed budget
with a budget narrative explaining
projected costs. Applicants may submit
a description of the project teams’
qualifications and expertise relevant to
the project, but should not attach
lengthy resumes. Attachments to the
proposal describing your organization or
examples of other past work beyond
those specifically requested above are
discouraged. These attachments should
not exceed 5MB.
The following forms must also be
included: OMB Standard Form 424,
Application for Federal Assistance;
OMB Standard Form 424A, Budget
information—Non-Construction
Programs; OMB Standard Form 424B,
Assurances—Non-Construction
Programs (these forms are 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://nicic.gov/Downloads/General/
certif-frm.pdf. Failure to supply all
required forms with the application
package may result in disqualification of
the application from consideration.
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). A DUNS
number can be received at no cost by calling
the dedicated toll-free DUNS number request
line at 1–800–333–0505 (if you are a sole
proprietor, you would dial 1–866–705–5711
and select option 1).
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Registration in the CRR can be done
online at the CCR Web site: https://
www.bpn.gov/ccr. A CCR Handbook and
worksheet can also be reviewed at the
Web site.
Review Considerations: Applications
received under this announcement will
be subject to the NIC Review Process.
Proposals which fail to provide
sufficient information to allow
evaluation under the criteria below may
be judged non-responsive and
disqualified.
The criteria for the evaluation of each
application will be as follows:
Programmatic (40%)
Are all of the project tasks adequately
discussed? Is there a clear statement of
how each task will be accomplished to
include the overall project goal(s), major
tasks to achieve the goal(s), the
strategies to be employed in completing
the tasks, required staffing, and other
required resources? Are there any
approaches, techniques, or design
aspects proposed that are new to NIC
and will enhance the project?
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Organizational (35%)
Do the proposed project staff members
possess the skills, knowledge, and
expertise necessary to complete the
tasks listed under the scope of work?
Does the applicant organization, group,
or individual have the organizational
capacity to achieve all project tasks?
Does the proposal contain project
management and staffing plans that are
realistic and sufficient to complete the
project within the project time frame?
Project Management/Administration
(25%)
Does the applicant identify reasonable
objectives, milestones, and measures to
track progress? If consultants and/or
partnerships are proposed, is there a
reasonable justification for their
inclusion in the project, and a clear
structure to ensure effective
coordination? Is the proposed budget
realistic, does it provide a sufficient cost
detail/narrative, and does it represent
good value relative to the anticipated
results?
Specific Requirements: Documents or
other media that are produced under
this award must follow these guidelines:
Prior to the preparation of the final draft
of any document or other media, the
awardee must consult with NIC’s
Writer/Editor concerning the acceptable
formats for manuscript submissions and
the technical specifications for
electronic media. For all awards in
which a document will be a deliverable,
the awardee must follow the guidelines
listed herein, as well as follow the
Guidelines for Preparing and Submitting
Manuscripts for Publication as found in
the ‘‘General Guidelines for Cooperative
Agreements,’’ which can be found on
our Web site at www.nicic.gov/
cooperativeagreements.
All final documents and other
materials submitted under this project
must meet the federal government’s
requirement for Section 508
accessibility, including those provisions
outlined in 1194 Subpart B, Technical
Provisions; Subpart C, Functional
Performance Criteria; and Subpart D,
Documentation and Support. NIC’s
government product accessibility
template (see www.nicic.gov/section508)
outlines the agency’s minimum criteria
for meeting this requirement; a
completed form attesting to the
accessibility of project deliverables
should accompany all submissions.
Note Concerning Catalog of Federal
Domestic Assistance Number: The Catalog of
Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) should
be entered into box 10 of the SF 424. The
CFDA number for this solicitation is 16.601.
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You are not subject to Executive Order 12372
and should check box b under section 16.
Robert M. Brown, Jr.,
Acting Director, National Institute of
Corrections.
[FR Doc. 2013–16014 Filed 7–2–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
National Institute of Corrections
Solicitation for a Cooperative
Agreement—Development and Pilot
Training of a Curriculum for Pretrial
Justice System Stakeholders
National Institute of
Corrections, U.S. Department of Justice.
ACTION: Solicitation for a Cooperative
Agreement.
AGENCY:
The National Institute of
Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals
from organizations, groups, or
individuals to enter into a cooperative
agreement for a 15-month period to
begin no later than August 31, 2013.
Work under this cooperative agreement
will involve the development and pilot
of a training curriculum targeted toward
teams of pretrial justice stakeholders
who have the primary responsibility of
developing and maintaining the pretrial
justice system within their jurisdiction.
This curriculum is intended to prepare
these teams to plan, develop, and
implement critical policy and
systemwide pretrial decisions in a
collaborative structure based on the
most current legal and evidence-based
pretrial knowledge. These teams must
have the participation of the judge,
prosecutor, defense attorney, sheriff or
jail administrator, and pretrial director,
who have primary oversight of pretrial
justice in their jurisdiction. The
curriculum will help teams explore
their independent and collaborative
roles in the development and daily
operational functions of maintaining
pretrial justice within their jurisdiction.
This project will be a collaborative
venture with the NIC Community
Services Division.
NIC Opportunity Number: 13CS04.
This number should appear in the
reference line in your cover letter, on
Standard Form 424 in section 11 with
the title of your proposal, and in the
right justified header of your proposal.
Number of Awards and Funds
Available: Under this solicitation, 1
(one) award will be made. The total
amount of funds available under this
solicitation is $70,000.00.
Applications: All applications must
be submitted electronically via https://
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
National Institute of Corrections
Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement--Sexual Safety in
Women's Institutions
AGENCY: National Institute of Corrections, U.S. Department of Justice.
ACTION: Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement.
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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting
proposals from organizations, groups, or individuals to enter into a
cooperative agreement for an 18-month period to begin no later than
September 15, 2013. Work under this cooperative agreement will involve
the development and piloting of a blended-learning curriculum, which
could include the use of virtual instructor-led training (VILT), to
address the safety of women inmates within correctional institutions.
The audience for this curriculum represents correctional staff,
volunteers, contractors, community stakeholders who work within women's
correctional institutions, and community residential facilities. This
project will be a collaborative venture with the NIC Community Services
Division.
NIC Opportunity Number: 13CS10. This number should appear in the
reference line in your cover letter, on Standard Form 424 in section 11
with the title of your proposal, and in the right justified header of
your proposal.
Number of Awards and Funds Available: Under this solicitation, 1
(one) award will be made. The total amount of funds available under
this solicitation is $80,000.00. Funds awarded under this solicitation
may only be used for activities directly related to the project as
described herein unless otherwise amended in writing by NIC.
Applications: All applicants must be submitted electronically via
https://www.grants.gov. Hand delivered, mailed, faxed, or emailed
applications will not be accepted.
DATES: Application must be submitted before midnight on Tuesday, July
16, 2013.
Authority: Public Law 93-415.
Eligibility of Applicants: An eligible applicant is any public or
private agency, educational institution, organization, individual or
team with expertise in the described areas.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: In 2006 the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funded
a study titled ``Gendered Violence and Safety: A Contextual Approach to
Improving Security in Women's Facilities.'' More recently, the National
Institute of Corrections funded the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
Validation Project for Improving Safety in Women's Facilities
(cooperative agreement 10PEI34GKB6), which further contributed
to the body of work addressing this issue. Sandwiched between those
efforts has been the release of the PREA National Standards to Prevent,
Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape, released in 2012, which has
significant implications for correctional settings housing women and
girls. A collection of standards comparison materials is available on
the Web at the following locations: https://nicic.gov/Library/026085;
https://nicic.gov/Library/026082; https://nicic.gov/Library/026083;
https://nicic.gov/Library/026084. Over the past few decades, through
research efforts and improved practice, the corrections profession has
had access to a great deal of information, which has influenced
continuing research efforts, training, assessment and classification,
development of program models, and the creation of promising practices
specific to improving system outcomes and individual outcomes for
justice-involved women. While many current practices within criminal
justice are seen as applicable to both justice-involved men and women,
more recently the corrections profession has had opportunities to
sharpen practice and more effectively manage resources in working with
women in correctional settings.
Scope of Work: The awardee must develop a blended learning
curriculum, including the piloting of the curriculum. The curriculum
must use a variety of delivery methodologies, which could include
readings, case study review, webinars, onsite delivery, and pre- and
post-training activities. A virtual instructor-led training format will
be considered if it can be demonstrated that the transfer of knowledge
to the participants is effective. Awardees should develop the materials
specific to physical and sexual safety in women's correctional
facilities, based on current research, knowledge, best practice, and
reflective of the experiences of corrections professionals and the
target population. It should also include outlined method(s) for the
transfer of learning, opportunities for skills practice, follow up
coaching/assistance, and a method to measure the effectiveness of the
training curriculum. The deliverables will help advance and foster
professional correctional environments while enhancing safety and
security and positively influencing systems, staff, and justice-
involved women.
Deliverables: Tasks to be performed through this cooperative
agreement include: (1) Conducting a literature search to contribute to
curriculum development (2) convening a working session at an approved
location; designing the working agenda; providing facilitation; and
using content from the session to inform project deliverables. Working
session participants will be identified in collaboration with and upon
the approval of the NIC project staff. (3) working with NIC project
staff and designated experts to develop deliverables. Deliverables
could include a facilitator's manual and participant workbook,
audiovisual materials, supplemental readings, pre/post measures of
learning and other materials that facilitate learning. (4) developing
and delivering the final curriculum modeled on the instructional theory
into practice format (5) creating a final report that summarizes the
project.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: All technical or programmatic
questions concerning this announcement should be directed to Maureen
Buell, Correctional Program Specialist, National Institute of
Corrections, who may be reached by email at mbuell@bop.gov. In addition
to the direct reply, all questions and responses will be posted on
NIC's Web site at www.nicic.gov for public review (the names or
affiliations of those submitting questions will not be posted). The Web
site will be updated regularly and postings will remain on the Web site
until the closing date of this cooperative agreement solicitation.
Application Requirements: Application Requirements: Applications
should be typed, double spaced, in 12-point font, and reference the
project by the ``NIC Opportunity Number'' (13CS10) and title in this
announcement, ``Sexual Safety in Women's Institutions.'' The package
must include: a cover letter that identifies 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); a concisely written program narrative, not to exceed
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30 numbered pages, in response to the statement of work, and a detailed
budget with a budget narrative explaining projected costs. Applicants
may submit a description of the project teams' qualifications and
expertise relevant to the project, but should not attach lengthy
resumes. Attachments to the proposal describing your organization or
examples of other past work beyond those specifically requested above
are discouraged. These attachments should not exceed 5MB.
The following forms must also be included: OMB Standard Form 424,
Application for Federal Assistance; OMB Standard Form 424A, Budget
information--Non-Construction Programs; OMB Standard Form 424B,
Assurances--Non-Construction Programs (these forms are 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://nicic.gov/Downloads/General/certif-frm.pdf. Failure to supply all required forms with the
application package may result in disqualification of the application
from consideration.
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). A DUNS number can be received at no cost by calling
the dedicated toll-free DUNS number request line at 1-800-333-0505
(if you are a sole proprietor, you would dial 1-866-705-5711 and
select option 1).
Registration in the CRR can be done online at the CCR Web site:
https://www.bpn.gov/ccr. A CCR Handbook and worksheet can also be
reviewed at the Web site.
Review Considerations: Applications received under this
announcement will be subject to the NIC Review Process. Proposals which
fail to provide sufficient information to allow evaluation under the
criteria below may be judged non-responsive and disqualified.
The criteria for the evaluation of each application will be as
follows:
Programmatic (40%)
Are all of the project tasks adequately discussed? Is there a clear
statement of how each task will be accomplished to include the overall
project goal(s), major tasks to achieve the goal(s), the strategies to
be employed in completing the tasks, required staffing, and other
required resources? Are there any approaches, techniques, or design
aspects proposed that are new to NIC and will enhance the project?
Organizational (35%)
Do the proposed project staff members possess the skills,
knowledge, and expertise necessary to complete the tasks listed under
the scope of work? Does the applicant organization, group, or
individual have the organizational capacity to achieve all project
tasks? Does the proposal contain project management and staffing plans
that are realistic and sufficient to complete the project within the
project time frame?
Project Management/Administration (25%)
Does the applicant identify reasonable objectives, milestones, and
measures to track progress? If consultants and/or partnerships are
proposed, is there a reasonable justification for their inclusion in
the project, and a clear structure to ensure effective coordination? Is
the proposed budget realistic, does it provide a sufficient cost
detail/narrative, and does it represent good value relative to the
anticipated results?
Specific Requirements: Documents or other media that are produced
under this award must follow these guidelines: Prior to the preparation
of the final draft of any document or other media, the awardee must
consult with NIC's Writer/Editor concerning the acceptable formats for
manuscript submissions and the technical specifications for electronic
media. For all awards in which a document will be a deliverable, the
awardee must follow the guidelines listed herein, as well as follow the
Guidelines for Preparing and Submitting Manuscripts for Publication as
found in the ``General Guidelines for Cooperative Agreements,'' which
can be found on our Web site at www.nicic.gov/cooperativeagreements.
All final documents and other materials submitted under this
project must meet the federal government's requirement for Section 508
accessibility, including those provisions outlined in 1194 Subpart B,
Technical Provisions; Subpart C, Functional Performance Criteria; and
Subpart D, Documentation and Support. NIC's government product
accessibility template (see www.nicic.gov/section508) outlines the
agency's minimum criteria for meeting this requirement; a completed
form attesting to the accessibility of project deliverables should
accompany all submissions.
Note Concerning Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number:
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) should be entered
into box 10 of the SF 424. The CFDA number for this solicitation is
16.601. You are not subject to Executive Order 12372 and should
check box b under section 16.
Robert M. Brown, Jr.,
Acting Director, National Institute of Corrections.
[FR Doc. 2013-16014 Filed 7-2-13; 8:45 am]
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