Indefinite Delivery Contract 49100421D0012

The National Science Foundation awarded multiple indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts worth a total potential value of $90 million over six years to provide evaluation, assessment, and program management services supporting portfolio management, investment evaluation, use of evaluation findings, and Evidence Act compliance. Services will be performed in Alexandria, Virginia.

One of these contracts was awarded to the National Opinion Research Center for $1.5 million to provide evaluation, assessment, and program management services for the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation program through June 2026 in Chicago, Illinois on a time and materials basis. This task order aims to support the program evaluation of the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation, which works to increase minority student participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.

The original solicitation sought proposals for the indefinite delivery contracts to provide labor rates and prices for sample task orders over a six year period to support the National Science Foundation's assessment of progress towards strategic goals, evaluation of investments, use of evaluation findings, and response to requirements under the Evidence Act. Evaluation criteria included corporate experience, past performance, methodology, subcontracting plans, oral presentations, and price reasonableness. At least five contracts including a minimum of two set aside for small businesses were to be awarded.