Purchase Order 49100418P1077

This federal contract award was issued by the Office of Integrative Activities, a civilian agency, to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International), a non-profit research organization, for Evaluation, Assessment, and Program Management Services for the Educational Outcomes of the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. The award is a delivery order under a larger Evaluation, Assessment, and Program Management Services contract vehicle. The total...

This is a $120,000 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian government agency, to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) for the "Investigating Data Expertise in All Stakeholder for Science Learning (IDEAS for Science Learning)" research project. The three-year project will focus on identifying current and former science learning facilitators among the agency's science activation partners in Phases I and II. UC Davis is a prominent public land-grant research...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a firm fixed price blanket purchase agreement call contract valued at approximately $2 million to Instructional Research Group of Los Alamitos, California. Under this contract, Instructional Research Group will convene a panel of education practitioners and national experts in research, education policy, and education practice to develop a series of practice guides on various topics as required by the...

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) awarded a delivery order valued at $1.9M to Activate Research Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based women-owned small business, to provide advisory and assistance services supporting data collection and operations activities for the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) program. The contract, which commenced May 13, 2024, and concludes February 12, 2029, is structured as a firm fixed-price delivery order issued under the Procurement of Research...

The National Academy of Sciences received a $1.89M definitive contract awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), a component of the U.S. Department of Education, on January 4, 2021, with a completion date of July 5, 2022. Operating as the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), the contractor will establish two expert committees to conduct a comprehensive study aimed at improving learner outcomes across the lifespan over the next decade and beyond. This...

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES), within the U.S. Department of Education, awarded a $4.38M delivery order to Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (doing business as Optimal Research Group) on July 1, 2024. This small business set-aside contract, with a firm fixed-price structure, is designated to support technical advisory services focused on developing standardized procedures and protocols for report and table production that can be executed at scale by third-party contractors. The work...

The Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded a $758,968.78 cost plus fixed fee delivery order contract to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology of Hoboken, New Jersey. The prime contractor will provide policy options to promote collaboration between the Department of Defense and defense industry on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and workforce development programs through July 2023. Major subcontracting support will be provided by Georgetown University...

This $356,106.98 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order was awarded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology, a private research university, to conduct research on interactive model-centric systems engineering. The award is part of the larger RESEARCH TOPIC 162 INTERACTIVE MODEL-CENTRIC SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (IMCSW) 2016 program. The research involves three tasks led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a major subcontractor:...

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) awarded a delivery order to Sanametrix Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business based in Arlington, Virginia, for Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates geospatial IT support services. This contract, valued at approximately $7.98 million with an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2029, was awarded on June 1, 2024, and operates under the Procurement of Research Evaluation and Statistics Task Orders (PRESTO) IDIQ contract vehicle with...

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has awarded a $1.825 million delivery order to Decision Information Resources, Inc. (DIR), a Houston-based minority and Black American-owned business, for work related to program closure and tenure policies. This delivery order, awarded on September 30, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of September 29, 2030, operates under a firm fixed-price structure with no set-aside designation. The contract is issued as a delivery order under the Procurement of...