Evaluation, Assessment, and Program Management Services

The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities established a Master IDIQ on August 10, 2021, to provide evaluation, assessment, and program management services supporting the agency's Evidence Act compliance, learning agenda development, rapid-cycle studies, and related capability assessments, with ordering authority extending through August 9, 2027. The vehicle carries a $90 million shared ceiling and employs no set-aside restrictions at the vehicle level, though approximately 6% of awarded task orders (two of 34) carry small-business designations; the remaining 94% are unrestricted.

With roughly 1 year 3 weeks of ordering authority remaining, the vehicle remains active but nearing its close. NSF has obligated $55.5 million against a combined task-order potential value of $85.4 million (65% obligated), leaving $29.9 million in unobligated potential across awarded orders. Recent ordering momentum has declined sharply: the vehicle averaged 7.75 orders per year in 2022–2024, dropped to 4 orders in 2025, and has seen only 1 order in 2026 (as of mid-February). The first task order was awarded in September 2021; the most recent was issued February 15, 2026.

Competitive concentration is moderate among established primes. Federal Management Partners, LLC leads by potential value at $18.2 million across 4 orders; Sri International holds $15.4 million across 4 orders; Mathematica Inc. has $14.3 million across 10 orders; Research Triangle Institute holds $13.9 million across 8 orders; and Westat, Inc. commands $12.4 million across 6 orders. These five firms capture 87% of combined potential value and 94% of task-order count, leaving two smaller primes to share the remaining volume. All 34 orders have funded NSF's Office of Integrative Activities, with a single order each to NSF's National Science Board ($745 thousand) and Division of Human Resource Development ($439 thousand).

Task orders span labor-hour, firm-fixed-price, and time-and-materials structures, with ceilings ranging from approximately $200 thousand to $7.5 million. Longer-duration orders (2–5 years) are common, with recent activity showing multi-year work on data analytics support, program monitoring, and rapid-cycle evaluation projects. Place of performance is Alexandria, Virginia, as specified in the original solicitation.

Provides expert support for evaluation and assessment activities in support of the Evaluation and Assessment Capability section's mission and related to complying with the Evidence Act, which includes developing learning agendas and implementing selected rapid cycle studies specified in the learning agendas or requested by Agency stakeholders. These services will typically be independent, self-contained, and repetitive, such as developing an evaluation framework, conducting literature reviews, and landscape studies, collecting qualitative and quantitative data, analyzing data, and/or disseminating findings.