State Electronic Data Collection (SEDC) Grant | 693JJ924R000025

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The State Electronic Data Collection (SEDC) Grant is a discretionary grant program run by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), an agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation. It was created because Congress directed NHTSA to establish this program in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (Public Law 117-58), specifically under section 24108(d). The basic purpose is to help states modernize and standardize how they collect and manage motor vehicle crash data so that it can be captured electronically, shared more easily within the state, and transferred fully electronically to NHTSA. The overall public policy goal behind that modernization is better crash data: more accurate, more timely, and easier to access and analyze, including better information on fatalities involving vulnerable road users.

The program is grounded in NHTSA's broader safety mission and legal authority to collect and use crash data for research and highway safety countermeasures. NHTSA relies on crash data to spot emerging trends, understand crash circumstances and injury outcomes, and evaluate what safety strategies are working. Through SEDC, DOT and NHTSA are aiming to expand how quickly reportable crash information becomes available and how complete and consistent it is across jurisdictions. In practice, that means states are being encouraged to move away from fragmented or paper-based workflows and toward end-to-end electronic crash reporting and data pipelines that support stronger analysis and quicker decision-making. Once states fully implement the funded activities, NHTSA expects to publish crash data collected through grant recipients for public use, which signals an emphasis on broader transparency and usability of the resulting datasets.

Eligibility is tightly defined by the law: only "States" may apply, and for this opportunity that term includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Secretary of the Interior acting on behalf of an Indian Tribe. A key administrative rule is that each eligible state entity can submit only one application. If multiple agencies or organizations within a state play major roles in crash reporting or the statewide crash data repository, they are expected to coordinate internally and select a single point of contact to submit the application on behalf of the state. NHTSA indicates it expects each state to receive SEDC funding once, and the opportunity forecasts 57 expected awards, aligning with the number of eligible state-level applicants listed in the definition.

The opportunity is identified as Funding Opportunity Number 693JJ924R000025, with an activity category tied to IIJA funding, and it is associated with CFDA number 20.614. The closing deadline, as updated by Amendment 4, is May 15, 2024 (the application period was extended by two weeks). The opportunity listing notes an award ceiling field but does not provide a numeric ceiling in the excerpted text.

Applications are submitted by email rather than through a portal, and the instructions in Amendment 1 specify sending the application package to the attention of Chris Clarke, Contract Specialist, via NHTSAOAM@dot.gov. NHTSA also provided applicant support through an informational webinar held February 15, 2024 (1:00 to 2:00 PM Eastern), with accessibility accommodations available upon request through NHTSA.Communication@dot.gov by February 12, 2024. Later amendments added resources for applicants, including the webinar slide deck and recording (Amendment 3), a refreshed list of MMUCC Sixth Edition elements and attributes to match the published MMUCC 6th Edition (Amendment 2, referencing an updated Excel file), and a compiled set of questions and answers plus standard federal forms posted under the "Related Documents" area (Amendment 4). Taken together, those amendments show that a major emphasis of the program is data standardization (including alignment with MMUCC) and clear implementation expectations around electronic collection and interoperable data transfer.

• The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the iij sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "State Electronic Data Collection (SEDC) Grant" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 20.614.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-01-31.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-05-15. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 57 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments.

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