The Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) seeks to enter into negotiations with ideas42, a non-profit behavioral design and consulting firm, in connection with a demonstration project to redesign the presentation of the City’s failure to appear (FTA) pretrial risk assessment instrument and to develop a mechanism for judicial feedback. The City is updating its current failure to appear (FTA) risk assessment instrument, a tool used to evaluate a defendant’s likelihood of returning to court and to guide a judge’s pretrial release and bail decisions. The tool is currently underutilized. The City is interested in increasing the use and effectiveness of this tool in order to reduce unnecessary incarceration.