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Solicitation #ED-IES-14-R-0046 Evaluation of Investing in Innovation (i3) Fiscal Year (FY) 2014-2016 Cohorts

Connecting Research, Policy and Practice ies.ed.gov

Meeting Agenda

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Introductions – The U.S. Department of Education’s Acquisition Team

Vendor Collaboration Protocol

Overview - Evaluation of Investing in Innovation (i3) FY 2014-2016 Cohorts

Closing Remarks and Next Steps ies.ed.gov

Introductions U. S. Department of Education

Tracy Rimdzius, Contracting Officer’s Representative – Institute of Education Sciences(IES)/National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE) Veronica L. Price, Contracting Officer – OCFO/Contracts and Acquisitions Management (CAM) Barakat Shakir, Contract Specialist – OCFO/Contracts and Acquisitions Management (CAM)

Purpose - To expand evidence-based practices and identify best practices that can be taken to scale Scale-up and Validation grants require prior evidence of effectiveness.

Development grants support innovative strategies.

All grantees are required to fund an independent local evaluation that estimates the impact of the i3-supported practice as implemented at the proposed level of scale.

Motivation – i3 Program

Overview

Expectation that evaluations will be well-designed and well-implemented (goal of meeting What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards Two main requirement activities Provision of technical assistance to independent evaluators Assess the strength of the evaluations and conduct a cross-site synthesis of results

Period of Performance

The Period of Performance for the anticipated contract is 98 months. It includes a Base Period and 17 Option Periods.

To what extent are the i3 independent local evaluations well-designed and well-implemented?

What are the results for different categories of key i3-funded interventions?

Research Questions

Key Tasks in Base Period/ Option Period 6/Option Period 12 Project planning for each grant cohort

Technical assistance to independent evaluators during year one of each grant cohort

Year One GPRA report for each cohort

Option Periods 1, 7, 13:

Ongoing technical assistance during year two of each grant cohort Year Two GPRA report for each cohort Option Periods 2, 8, 14:

Ongoing technical assistance during year three of each grant cohort Year Three GPRA report for each cohort Option Periods 3, 9, 15:

Ongoing technical assistance during year four of each grant cohort Year Four GPRA report for each cohort Analysis plan, OMB package, data collection

Key Tasks in Other Option Periods

Key Tasks in Other Option Periods, (Cont’d) Option Periods 4, 10, 16:

Ongoing technical assistance during year five of each grant cohort Year Five GPRA report for each cohort Data collection Option Periods 5, 11, 17:

Data collection Final report for each cohort

Must coordinate with contractor for the existing three contracts serving the i3 cohorts from FY10 through FY13 Critical documents produced under the existing contracts will be appended to the Request for Proposals.

Information about FY14 grantees will not be available until after contract award Must maintain independence between staff providing technical assistance and staff conducting analysis and reporting and between any staff serving as an i3 evaluator and staff working on the anticipated contract Project Issues

Closing Remarks/Next Steps All webinar related questions must be submitted to the CS & CO by 3 pm (ET) on July 25, 2014.

Responses will be posted on www.FBO.gov on July 29, 2014.

Capability Statements are due 12 noon (ET), July 28, 2014.

RFP’s anticipated release date: September 2014 image2.png image3.png image4.png image1.tiff