Education Development Center, Inc.

Education Development Center, Inc., doing business as E D C, is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization that provides technical assistance, training, research, evaluation, and implementation services across education, public health, and international development to the federal government as a prime contractor on 585 federal awards (92% of recent work) and as a subcontractor on 49 awards (8%). E D C competes under full-and-open contracting without set-asides and operates as a service delivery organization with a substantial workforce dedicated to federal missions.

E D C's footprint spans six customer agencies accounting for 48% of awards by count. The U.S. Agency for International Development leads by volume at 133 awards worth $678.3 million combined potential value, anchored by the $300 million Reading for East Africa's Development (READ) IDIQ under which E D C delivers a $79.5 million Kenya Primary Literacy Program (KPLP) involving literacy and language interventions in primary grades across East African countries, subcontracting with the National Opinion Research Center and Inclusive Development Partners for evaluation and program implementation. The Department of Health and Human Services ranks highest by potential value, with 29 awards totaling $598.7 million across the Health Resources and Services Administration ($439.7 million across 11 awards for MIECHV technical assistance and early childhood home visiting programs), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ($159 million across 12 awards for strategic prevention and technical assistance centers), and the Administration for Community Living ($75 million IDIQ). The National Science Foundation follows with 106 awards including the Division of Research on Learning funding STEM education research and development, computer science curriculum integration, and youth mentorship initiatives in makerspaces and maker clubs targeting underrepresented populations. The Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences has funded 21 awards worth $123.4 million, including a $21.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract as the Regional Educational Laboratory for the Northeast and Islands (REL-NEI) for the 2022–2027 cycle, where E D C subcontracts with American Institutes for Research, WestEd, and SRI International to deliver applied research, training, coaching, and technical support to build capacity for data-driven decision-making across multiple states. The Department of Veterans Affairs has issued awards for web-based mobile application development, including a $979,813 decision aid support services contract for PTSD treatment decision aids, with Urban Emu, LLC serving as the primary subcontractor on design and development.

E D C operates on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) with a $30.4 million ceiling awarded January 3, 2022, extending through January 2, 2027, where the Department of Health and Human Services has placed multiple high-value delivery orders: a $39.4 million Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Technical Assistance Resource Center (TARC) award issued April 13, 2026, extending through April 12, 2031 (Waltham, Massachusetts); a $38.7 million MIECHV TARC delivery order issued March 20, 2026 (Rockville, Maryland); and a $69,185 delivery order for MIECHV program technical assistance issued September 22, 2025 (Rockville, Maryland). The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 28 categories with hourly rates ranging from $74.68 for administrative support (associate degree, two years' experience) to $382.53 for executive consultant positions (bachelor's degree, fourteen years' experience), with no security-cleared roles. Representative mid-tier consultant positions include Technical Consultant II at $129.38/hr, Senior Consultant I at $231.40/hr, and Senior Consultant III at $266.31/hr, spanning bachelor's-level education with two to twelve years' relevant experience. E D C also holds the OASIS+ Unrestricted GWAC awarded December 17, 2024, with a multi-year ceiling and performance government-wide through December 16, 2029, and the $75 million Administration for Community Living IDIQ awarded January 22, 2024, extending through January 21, 2029.

Service Contract Inventory reporting shows SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $218.5 million across fiscal years 2022–2024 (prime contracts only, covering service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold). Invoicing declined year over year: $78.7 million in FY2022 across 153 FTEs (contract-level), $76.6 million in FY2023 across 130 FTEs, and $63.2 million in FY2024 across 315 FTEs, reflecting a spike in FTE delivery in FY2024 while invoiced revenue declined. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts show a median of $156.86/hr, with the 10th percentile at $71.57/hr and the 90th percentile at $890.11/hr, consistent with E D C's portfolio mixing junior technical staff with senior research and evaluation leads. Across prime contracts reported to SCI, an average of 24% of contractor hours are subcontracted out to a roster of 72 named subcontractors, including NORC, WestEd, American Institutes for Research, SRI International, and smaller firms providing specialized research, evaluation, and implementation support.

Award activity has moderated from a peak of 29 awards in 2023 to 22 in 2024 and 19 in 2025, with only 4 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date through mid-April, signaling a transition or transition planning cycle. Seventeen awards carrying $48.3 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing significant recompete and renewal risk for major MIECHV, SAMHSA strategic prevention, and international development vehicles. E D C's teaming posture is mixed: it performs most work with its own staff but routinely engages subcontractors on larger research and evaluation efforts, particularly for applied education research (AIR, WestEd, SRI International), for international development program implementation (NORC, Inclusive Development Partners), and for specialized technical functions. In subcontractor roles, E D C typically serves as an evaluator or technical-assistance provider to prime recipients managing federal education and workforce development grants, particularly under Corporation for Public Broadcasting Ready To Learn awards, HRSA behavioral health workforce development initiatives, and NSF STEM education research projects led by university recipients. E D C receives direct federal grant funding as a recipient under NSF STEM Education (CFDA 47.076), the Education Innovation and Research Program (CFDA 84.411), and USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) for education innovation, literacy, youth empowerment, and capacity-building activities in the United States and East Africa, Mali, South Sudan, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Kenya, Egypt, and Vietnam.