Definitive Contract AID612C1400001

This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to Mathematica Inc., a research and data analytics consultancy, to conduct an impact evaluation of departmentalized instruction in elementary schools. The evaluation will examine the impact of switching from self-contained classrooms where teachers teach all subjects to a single group of students, to departmentalized instruction where teachers specialize in teaching either math or...

This is a $4,847,787 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract 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 non-profit research organization. The contract is for a feasibility study to inform a future impact evaluation of policy and practice under Title III, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The study involves data collection, analysis, and...

This contract was awarded by the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to R G Research Group, Inc., doing business as Instructional Research Group, a small disadvantaged business. The contract, which has a firm fixed price of $1,129,682.00, is for services to update an existing practice guide on "Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Response to Intervention for Elementary and Middle Schools." This contract is a call under the Procurement of Research...

This is a $40,947,225 definitive federal contract awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), which is part of the U.S. Department of Education, to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR). The contract is to evaluate the impact of offering schools training in the implementation of multi-tiered systems of support for reading (MTSS-R) in early elementary school on staff practice and student outcomes. The training is expected to be intensive and focused on...

This is a definitive contract awarded by the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) at the U.S. Department of Education to NCS Pearson Inc. for $3,997,703.76 to conduct studies to review and potentially revise the Achievement Level Descriptions (ALDs) for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics, reading, and other subjects at grades 4, 8, and 12. The contract has a period of performance ending on September 28, 2023. The original solicitation was for a...

This is a federal contract award by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) to conduct an implementation and impact evaluation study of transition services for students with disabilities. The contract, valued at $54,271,412.00, is a cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with no set-aside designation. The contract involves AIR serving as the prime contractor, with several subcontractors...

This is a $12,360,291.77 definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Education, to ABT Global LLC, a for-profit research and consulting firm. The contract supports a research study to provide data and analysis for the reauthorization of the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act. The award does not utilize a set-aside and has an ultimate completion date of February 10, 2025. ABT Global LLC has...

This is a $189,216,311.83 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to conduct data collection for multiple national postsecondary education studies, including the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B), and Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS). The contract supports IES's role in providing national education statistics...

This $13,364,740 federal contract was awarded by the Department of Education's Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development to Mathematica Inc., a research and data analytics consultancy, to conduct a two-component study. The first component involves collecting implementation information about the Teacher and School Leader Incentive (TSL) Fund program's FY2017 grants. The second component is an impact evaluation of a core strategy common among the FY2017 TSL grants. The contractor...

This federal contract award is for the 2023-24 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:2024) and Postsecondary Longitudinal Studies, worth a ceiling value of $75,004,450.20. It was awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, to the Research Triangle Institute (RTI International), a non-profit research organization. The contract supports IES in conducting the NPSAS, a cross-sectional study on the costs of postsecondary...