Education Technology Creativity Tools 2011-2016

This Master IDIQ vehicle is closed to new ordering as of September 25, 2016, and is not suitable for pursuit. The Department of Defense Education Activity established the Education Technology Creativity Tools contract on September 20, 2011, to procure student content creation software—including digital storytelling, video and image editing, animation, web development, and screen capture tools—at age-appropriate levels for K–12 curricula. The ordering period has been closed for approximately nine years and ten months, and all combined potential value of $1.5 million has been obligated.

The vehicle issued 11 task orders over its five-year active life, averaging fewer than two orders per year with declining ordering momentum from three orders in 2012 to one order each in 2013, 2015, and 2016. Task-order values ranged from $6,300 to $362,400, with firm fixed pricing on all awards. Orders procured PK–8 and PK–12 creativity tools licenses and supporting tools licenses.

Three firms shared the award population with highly concentrated activity. Hoonuit, LLC held six orders valued at $706 thousand combined. Tech4Learning Inc. held two orders valued at $712 thousand combined. Academic & Collegiate Software Inc. held three orders valued at $74 thousand combined. All 11 orders funded Department of Defense Education Activity programs exclusively, with no set-asides used across the entire vehicle.

Department of Defense Education Activity's Educational Technology Program is committed to facilitating a student-centered learning model by allowing students to work collaboratively and creatively across the curriculum in accordance with the principles of creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration, research and information fluency, critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making, digital citizenship, and technology operations and concepts set forth by the National Education Technology Standards (NETS). As such, DoDEA currently has the need to update the student content creation tools that are offered at age-appropriate levels across the curriculum. Student creation of content will include digital storytelling, digital video and image editing, animation/storyboarding, web development, screen capture/tutorial creation, and the ability to safely and effectively share these projects.