BJA FY 21 The Intellectual Property Enforcement Program: Protecting Public Health, Safety, and the Economy from Counterfeit Goods and Product Piracy | O BJA 2021 46004

Opportunity Information: Apply for O BJA 2021 46004

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) FY 21 Intellectual Property Enforcement Program (IPEP) is a discretionary grant program meant to strengthen how state, local, tribal, and territorial criminal justice systems tackle intellectual property crime, with a specific focus on counterfeit goods and product piracy that threaten public health, public safety, and the broader economy. The program is built around practical enforcement capacity: supporting investigations and prosecutions, preventing IP crime through coordinated strategies, and expanding training and technical assistance so agencies can identify, disrupt, and dismantle counterfeit and piracy operations more effectively.

A central feature of IPEP is support for dedicated intellectual property enforcement task forces. Funding is intended for law enforcement agencies that already operate an IP enforcement task force or that have a concrete plan to establish one. These task forces are expected to work as multiagency collaborations rather than isolated units, coordinating with relevant state, local, territorial, tribal, and federal partners. A specific partnership emphasized in the solicitation is coordination with the applicant’s local U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO), reflecting the program’s goal of improving case referrals, strengthening prosecutions, and aligning local efforts with federal enforcement priorities where appropriate.

Eligibility is broad across government and certain public entities. Eligible applicants include state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, federally recognized tribal governments, and other tribal organizations, along with other eligible entities as described in the full solicitation. The funding instrument is a grant, administered by BJA, and the opportunity is identified as O-BJA-2021-46004 with a CFDA number of 16.752. The maximum award amount listed is up to $400,000 per award. The original application closing date for this FY 2021 opportunity was March 16, 2021, and the opportunity record shows it was created on December 18, 2020.

The solicitation also includes a significant law enforcement certification condition tied to Executive Order 13929, Safe Policing for Safe Communities. Under this requirement, state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies seeking FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding must either be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have begun the certification process to remain eligible. To qualify for certification, agencies must meet two mandatory conditions related to use-of-force policy: first, the policy must comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws; second, the policy must prohibit chokeholds except in circumstances where deadly force is legally authorized. Importantly, this certification requirement is not limited to prime recipients; it also applies when a law enforcement agency receives DOJ discretionary grant funds through a subaward arrangement. The solicitation directs applicants to the DOJ resource page (https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO) for the standards, implementation guidance, and the list of designated independent credentialing bodies.

Finally, the grant includes a restriction on profit: all recipients and subrecipients, including any for-profit organization involved at any level, must forgo profit or management fees. In practice, that means grant funds must be budgeted strictly for allowable project costs tied to program activities rather than built-in profit margins or separate management fee structures.

• The Bureau of Justice Assistance in the affordable care act sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY 21 The Intellectual Property Enforcement Program: Protecting Public Health, Safety, and the Economy from Counterfeit Goods and Product Piracy" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.752.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2020-12-18.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2021-03-16. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $400,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Others.

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