Assessment, Planning, Course Evaluation Software

Alfred State College is seeking proposals for assessment, planning, course evaluation, and accreditation software under discretionary authority pursuant to NYS Education Law 355(5)(a), with interested vendors required to contact the college within 15 business days of the February 5, 2026 advertisement notice. This is a sealed-bid waiver procurement — no formal sealed bid will be held; vendors must submit proposals directly to the college's designated campus contact.

The scope requires a highly secure, cloud-based SaaS platform integrating comprehensive academic and organizational assessment, accreditation support, program planning, strategic planning, and course evaluation. The system must support customizable assessment planning with unlimited assessment and strategic plan generation; institutional structure mapping; course-to-program-to-institutional learning outcome alignment; both course- and program-level academic assessment; and curriculum mapping with program assessment timelines. Required integrations include Banner (ERP) and Brightspace D2L (learning management system). The platform must host historical assessment data spanning ten years and support multiple accreditation bodies: MSCHE, ACEN, ABET, IACBE, and JRCERT. Functional capacity must include unlimited user accounts, assessment teams of 10–25 members, unlimited survey projects with customizable permissions, automated response tracking and non-respondent follow-up, and user-friendly dashboarding for reporting and follow-up activities.

The incumbent contractor is Watermark Insights LLC, which was awarded an identical or substantially similar contract within the past five years. No contract value, term length, or place of performance is specified in the source materials. The formal proposal due date is February 27, 2026.