BPA Call GS00P14CYA0009-GSP1115YX7002

The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research awarded a $2,625,731 delivery order to The Urban Institute under the Professional Services Schedule. The delivery order is for CHOICE OUTCOME STUDY services with a completion date of March 1, 2024. No set-aside designation was used for the award. The Urban Institute will conduct the CHOICE OUTCOME EVALUATION as the prime contractor, drawing from its expertise in providing research,...

Research Triangle Institute (RTI International), headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, was awarded a BPA Call valued at $2.34 million on September 27, 2023, to provide technical support for internal and external analyses, reports, and digital products pertaining to education across preschool through grade 12, postsecondary, and adult and career education. The contract, which operates under a time-and-materials pricing structure with an ultimate completion date of April 30,...

This is a $5,591,636.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR), a prominent non-profit research organization. The task order is for a foundational phase of a national study to evaluate programs and strategies aimed at improving outcomes for students with disabilities, focusing on special education spending. Major...

ABT Global LLC, a leading research and consulting subsidiary of ABT Associates Inc., was awarded a $7.78 million delivery order contract by the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research on September 30, 2021, for the Family Options Study. This time-and-materials contract, which operates under the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) vehicle, is performance-based through February 28, 2026, and involves research, evaluation, and technical...

This task order was awarded to ABT Global LLC, a subsidiary of ABT Associates, to analyze data and assess the short-term effectiveness of the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) current loan counseling experiment. The task order includes an initial meeting with ED and the option to conduct further evaluations. This requirement falls under the Federal Student Aid (FSA) program's initiative to evaluate strategies designed to improve the federal student aid system, primarily those tested under...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Policy Development and Research awarded a delivery order valued at $617,109 to The Urban Institute on September 30, 2019, for evaluation services related to the Family Unification Program and Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) initiative. This contract, which operated under a labor-hours pricing model with a completion date of February 28, 2022, was issued without a set-aside designation and performed in Washington, DC. The Urban...

This is a $24,011,010.74 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Department of Education, to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to conduct the 2023-24 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:24) and related longitudinal studies. NPSAS is a cross-sectional study that provides information about the costs of postsecondary education and how students and families pay for these costs. The contract also includes options for...

This is a 36-month, $989,315.88 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order awarded by the Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to Battelle Memorial Institute, a nonprofit research and development organization. The task order is part of NHTSA's Behavioral Traffic Research Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle. The study will examine the impact of educational interventions on speeding behavior among licensed drivers with prior speeding...

The U.S. government awarded a $25,000 firm fixed-price purchase order to The Urban Institute to conduct research addressing significant sample design issues in the 2008 National Household Travel Survey. The contract was awarded on September 7, 2007, with an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2008, and performance was conducted in Washington, D.C. No set-aside designation was utilized for this award. The National Household Travel Survey, administered by the Federal Highway Administration, is a...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) to the University of Central Florida (UCF) for $197,065.00 to conduct a feasibility study on hosting a Navy platform called the Virtual Joint Environment for Tactical Training Systems (VJETTS) within the Ingenuity Hyperspace Building at the Central Florida Research Park. The study will assess the viability of accommodating portable Containerized Storage Units (CSUs) for VJETTS, which will be utilized by...