Tenders/BJA FY 2026 Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative

BJA FY 2026 Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative

Bureau of Justice Assistance

Published: Sep 21, 2026

Updated: Sep 22, 2026

About This Opportunity

This is a grants contract in the information and communication technology, legal services, security and defense and education and training sectors. Located in United States, North America, this opportunity is open to firms and consortiums.

Published through Grants.gov, a national government procurement portal. Public procurement tenders follow the country's national bidding regulations and may have specific eligibility and documentation requirements for grants in the information and communication technology sector. Grant applications generally require a detailed project proposal, a clear results framework, and evidence of the applicant's capacity to deliver the proposed activities. Interested parties should review the full documentation on the original source before submitting their proposal.

Description

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative. This opportunity supports local law enforcement in rural jurisdictions to prevent, respond to, and reduce violent crime. The goal is to equip rural law enforcement agencies and prosecutors’ offices with the resources necessary to implement a violent crime reduction strategy to solve a specific violent crime challenge utilizing one or more of the following approaches: • Personnel, Tactics, Training, and Equipment to Reduce Violent Crime. This includes updated technology and tools, including records management systems, vehicles, vests, and firearms that assist agencies in responding to and preventing violent crime. This also includes hiring additional personnel such as a prosecutor or criminologist to strategically address persistent crimes, early case management, and increased police training. • Technological Enhancements to Reduce Violent Crime. Technology takes the form of hardware, software, communications systems, intelligence centers, and equipment. Technology systems can create the infrastructure for actionable intelligence, enhance officer safety, support efficient operations, shorten case filing timelines, and manage risk. • Data Analytics and Intelligence. Enhance crime analysis capabilities through personnel, training, and software enhancements to identify crime hotspots, predict high-risk times and locations, and allocate resources more effectively to prevent violent incidents before they occur. • Other approaches that align with the Department’s priorities and provide a significant reduction in violent crime rates. Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance CFDA: 16.039 Eligible Applicants: Other Units of Local Government: For the purposes of this NOFO, “other units of local government” include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state. Applicant Types: Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized); Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification); State governments; City or township governments; Special district governments; Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments); County governments Cost Sharing: No More Info: BJA Website — www.bja.ojp.org Contact: Bureau of Justice Assistance Email: OJP.ResponseCenter@usdoj.gov

Data provenance

This notice is sourced from Grants.gov and was originally published on September 21, 2026. Last refreshed today. BidsFactory mirrors official procurement notices and links back to the source for full legal text.

About Bureau of Justice Assistance

Bureau of Justice Assistance has issued 84 procurement notices on BidsFactory, including 27 currently open and 0 awarded contracts. Activity concentrates in Security, Defense & Justice, Law & Legal Services, and Governance & Public Administration. All notices are published for United States. Notices are distributed via Grants.gov. Most recent publication: September 21, 2026.

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