The Department of Education awarded a $1,200 purchase order to The School Solutions Group, operated by Michael Raible, for peer review services. The firm fixed price contract supports the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and will provide peer review from August 1st through August 30th, 2023 in Washington, D.C. The School Solutions Group will deliver peer review as a prime contractor with no indication of subcontractors. The contract furthers the Department of Education's mission of...
The Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $421,588 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Mathematica Inc., a research and data analytics consultancy, to generate design options for evaluating the impact of the Promise Neighborhoods program on student outcomes. The contract aims to propose designs for a full program evaluation and thoroughly assess the credibility, feasibility, and tradeoffs of each proposed design. Mathematica has a subcontract with BCT Partners LLC, a...
This is a $13,364,740 federal contract awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), part of the U.S. Department of Education, to Mathematica Inc. to conduct a two-part study on the Teacher and School Leader Incentive Fund (TSL) program. The first component will collect implementation information about the FY2017 TSL grants, and the second will evaluate the impact of a common strategy among the funded grants. The contractor will also collect data to provide information for the...
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...
The Department of Education Office of Planning Evaluation and Policy Development (ED OPDEP) awarded a $287,808 firm fixed price call order contract to Sri International under the Data Analytics and Evaluation Support (DAES) master blanket purchase agreement to provide technical support for the Office Chief Data Officer (OCDO) analytic evaluation studies and reports pertaining to Pre-Kindergarten-12, postsecondary, and adult and career education. Sri International will subcontract with...
This task order was awarded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to Creative Associates International Inc. under the Assistance to Basic Education (ABE) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) master contract. The purpose of this cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order was to support USAID/Egypt in conducting a final evaluation of the American University in Cairo (AUC) Leadership for Education and Development (LEAD) scholarship program in Egypt from April 2008...
This federal contract award, valued at $2,786,491.00, was issued by the Contracts and Acquisition Management agency, a civilian federal agency, to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR), a non-profit research organization. The contract is a BPA Call under the Procurement of Research Evaluation and Statistics Task Orders (PRESTO) vehicle, which allows the Department of Education to issue task orders for specialized research, evaluation, and technical support...
This federal contract award, with an ID of EDESE14D0004|0020, was made by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), a component of the U.S. Department of Education. The $334,027.57 Firm Fixed Price contract was awarded to Leed Management Consulting Inc. (LMCi), an 8(a) sole source small disadvantaged business, to provide on-site and electronic grant review services and logistical support for the peer review process for the 2016 National Professional Development (NPD) grant...
This is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Education, to Leed Management Consulting Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The purpose of the order is to provide peer review logistical support for the Office of State Support's review of 37 state assessment system grantees over two review sessions in June and August 2016. The ultimate completion date is October 31, 2016, and the ceiling...
This federal contract award, with a ceiling value of $293,049.00, was issued by the Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition to the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a non-profit research organization. The award will explore Pay for Success (PFS) programs to help advance outcomes in education, build evidence around effective practices, encourage innovation, and create incentives for philanthropic entities, tribal governments, and state/local governments. The...