Curriculum Associates, LLC

Curriculum Associates, LLC, a for-profit educational technology company based in North Billerica, Massachusetts, delivers K-12 digital curriculum, assessment tools, and instructional resources to federal education agencies as a prime contractor (92% of recent awards), competing on a full-and-open basis without set-aside designations. The company operates under NAICS codes centered on book publishing (23 awards), software publishing (22 awards), and educational support services (20 awards), with primary PSC activity in books and pamphlets (27 awards) and business application software licensing (16 awards).

Curriculum Associates' federal footprint centers on the i-Ready platform—a comprehensive digital suite pairing mathematics and reading curriculum resources with assessment tools and educator professional development. Recent prime contract work includes a $90,880 delivery order from the Department of Defense Education Activity (August 2026) for commercially available off-the-shelf digital mathematics strategic intervention resources supplementing core instruction; a $29,251.54 purchase order from the Bureau of Indian Education (September 2026) for curriculum licenses at Pine Ridge School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota; a $144,311 purchase order from the Bureau of Indian Education (June 2023) covering i-Ready Math curriculum, software, books, and professional development for Pine Ridge schools; and a $103,436.97 purchase order from the Bureau of Indian Education (June 2023) for i-Ready Reading curriculum materials, software, and professional development services for the 2023–2024 school year in Pine Ridge. The company also delivers i-Ready Classroom, i-Ready Partner Service subscriptions, and supplemental assessments addressing learning loss under federal pandemic-relief grants.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward Department of Defense Education Activity and Bureau of Indian Education schools. The top five customer entities account for 92% of awards by count, with the Bureau of Indian Education leading at 46 awards ($1.2 million combined potential value) and DoDEA placing 12 orders carrying $2.7 million—the largest dollar concentration despite fewer individual awards. Navajo Region schools and the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education round out the active set. This divergence signals that DoDEA places fewer but larger orders while BIE executes many small school-specific purchase orders.

Curriculum Associates holds a single-award indefinite delivery contract with DoDEA (HE125420D0024, $93,300 ceiling, award date August 2026, completion August 2027) for 100% digital mathematics strategic intervention resources supplementing core instruction, with related technical support. Recent task order activity under this vehicle includes a $10,000 delivery order (October 2023) for grades 6–8 math intervention and a $50,000 delivery order (September 2021) for middle-school mathematics intervention curriculum resources. The company also subcontracts on a multi-year evaluation contract with MDRC under the "Evaluating Programs and Strategies to Accelerate School Improvement" vehicle ($124,408 modification in January 2024, building on a first period of $89,200).

Award activity has remained modest and flat over the past five years (12 awards in 2022, 11 in 2024, 7 in 2025, 10 in 2026 year-to-date), with ten awards (combined potential value $268,000) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete. Combined potential value across all 86 awards totals $4.1 million, with obligated dollars running to $4.4 million—a slight over-obligation indicating contract modifications and incremental funding. The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures zero federal service-contract FTEs for Curriculum Associates in FY2025; the company's federal footprint is predominantly goods and licenses rather than labor-based service contracts above the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold.

Curriculum Associates operates as a prime on the vast majority of recent awards and has minimal subcontractor exposure; the SCI dataset shows two named-subcontractor records in FY2025, indicating sub-engagement is not a characteristic operating posture. Federal grant sub-award work includes elementary and secondary school emergency relief (ESSER II and ESSER III) sub-awards from the State of Maryland (December 2022, January 2024) addressing pandemic learning loss and supporting historically underserved students, and assessments-related sub-grants from the Arkansas Department of Education (February and April 2022). The company does not appear on federal service-contract vehicles such as GWACs or GSA Schedules in the source material; its federal presence is direct purchase orders and single-award IDCs with education-focused agencies.