Purchase Order HR001107P0015

This is a $5,548,284.78 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), part of the U.S. Department of Education, to Westat, Inc. to conduct an evaluation of up to two pilot programs authorized by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): the Innovative Assessment and Accountability Demonstration Authority and Flexibility for Equitable Per-Pupil Funding. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Westat, a prominent professional services firm specializing...

This is a firm fixed-price Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development to the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a non-profit research organization, for $1,442,687.00. The purpose of the contract is to conduct case studies of up to nine school districts that have implemented weighted student funding (WSF) systems to more equitably and effectively distribute and use funds in relation to student...

Westat, Inc. has been awarded a sole-source follow-on contract by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education valued at $2.82M, with performance scheduled through December 22, 2025. This Firm Fixed Price Blanket Purchase Agreement call, awarded on September 23, 2024, falls under the Grants Management Support Services master BPA and requires no small business set-aside. The contract encompasses services, training, technical assistance, and data collection activities, along with annual...

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 federal contract award, valued at $4,847,787.00, was issued by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), a civilian agency, to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR), a non-profit organization. The contract is for a definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to conduct 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 contract includes several key...

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded a $49.8K firm fixed price purchase order to International Advisory Products and Systems LTD (iAPS), a certified economically disadvantaged women-owned small business, on September 25, 2025. The contract calls for iAPS to design and implement a comprehensive mixed-methods research evaluation of the BRITE (Brazilians Innovating on the Teaching of English) Program alumni network. The study will assess the long-term professional impact of the...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), part of the U.S. Department of Education, to Westat, Inc., a professional services firm headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. The contract provides services for the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) participation in international student and adult assessment programs, including the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Progress in International Reading Literacy Study...

WestEd, a San Francisco-based nonprofit research and service organization, received a $15.5 million definitive contract from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education on September 28, 2015, to provide grantee monitoring and data collection services supporting the Charter School Program. The contract, which operated on a firm fixed-price basis with no set-aside designation and was scheduled for completion on October 30, 2024, required WestEd to monitor State...

This is a $9,723,923.00 cost-plus-incentive definitive contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development to the nonprofit organization WestEd. The contract is for a longitudinal assessment of the implementation, outcomes, and sustainability of the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) program. There is no set-aside designation for this contract. WestEd has a history of providing research, evaluation, technical assistance,...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $11.7M firm fixed price task order to Insight Policy Research, Inc. (operating as Westat Insight) on December 30, 2021, with an ultimate completion date of February 27, 2026. Issued under the Grants Management Support Services BPA, this task order provides technical assistance, training, and performance reporting support for the Promise Neighborhoods program. Promise Neighborhoods is a federal initiative...