Education Development Center, Inc.

Education Development Center, Inc., doing business as E D C, is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization that operates as a prime contractor (92% of recent awards) delivering technical assistance, training, research, evaluation, and implementation services across education, public health, and international development to federal agencies on full-and-open procurements without set-asides.

EDC's capability portfolio spans K-12 STEM education, early childhood and maternal-child health programs, workforce development, and international education and health initiatives. Recent representative work includes a $41.4 million delivery order from the Department of Health and Human Services under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Technical Assistance Resource Center extending through April 2031; a $17.3 million CDC order for the Adolescent Health Technical Assistance Center under GSA MAS through March 2032; a $12.6 million NASA cooperative agreement to expand the GLOBE geoscience education program through July 2029; a $21.7 million Institute of Education Sciences definitive contract for the Regional Educational Laboratory for the Northeast and Islands delivering applied research and technical support through January 2027; and a $79.5 million USAID delivery order for the Kenya Primary Literacy Program under the Reading for East Africa's Development IDIQ, with subcontractors NORC and Inclusive Development Partners, focused on literacy interventions in East Africa.

EDC holds a position on the OASIS+ Unrestricted government-wide IDIQ (awarded December 2024, ceiling of a multi-billion-dollar value, through December 2029), a $75 million Administration for Community Living IDIQ (January 2024–January 2029), a $300 million USAID Reading for East Africa's Development IDIQ (January 2023–February 2025), and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule ($30.4 million ceiling through January 2027), with 39 task orders under MAS alone carrying $278.2 million in combined potential value. The vendor also operates on federal supply schedules offering 28 labor categories spanning administrative support at $74.68 per hour through executive consultant positions at $382.53 per hour, with education requirements from associate to bachelor's degree and no security-cleared roles.

Customer concentration is distributed across federal agencies and international development. The top five funding sources by award count and potential value include the U.S. Agency for International Development (133 awards, $678.3 million), the Department of Health and Human Services through Health Resources and Services Administration ($441.7 million across 11 awards) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ($162.3 million across 12 awards), the National Science Foundation (106 awards, primarily through its Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings with 28 awards), and the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences ($123.4 million across 21 awards). USAID dominates both volume and dollar concentration, accounting for nearly 21% of all awards and over 20% of combined potential value.

Activity has tracked at roughly 14 to 29 awards per year over the past five years, with 20 awards (combined potential value $52.2 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure in that window. SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold totaled $257.5 million across fiscal years 2022–2025 (prime records), with FY2022 invoicing of $78.7 million across 153 FTEs declining to $39 million across 155 FTEs in FY2025, reflecting variability in large contract drawdown cycles. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable work ran from a 10th percentile of $94.74 per hour through a median of $162.35 per hour to a 90th percentile of $846.88 per hour, indicating a mix of administrative, technical-consultant, and senior-expert labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed approximately 23 percent of total contractor hours, with 93 named subcontractors reported, signaling a mixed delivery model in which EDC builds substantial internal capacity while leveraging specialized subs for targeted workstreams.

EDC regularly subcontracts to prime recipients across grant and research awards. Named primes for which EDC serves as subcontractor or sub-recipient include American Institutes for Research (on Regional Educational Laboratory work), International Development Group Advisory Services (on USAID education and youth programs in sub-Saharan Africa), SRI International (on Regional Educational Laboratory Program work in Appalachia), and numerous university recipients and nonprofit organizations (including NORC, Inclusive Development Partners, the Trustees of Boston College, University of Wisconsin System, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting) across evaluation, technical assistance, curriculum development, and research support roles.

Federal grant activity is concentrated in the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program and the Department of Education. Recent NSF grants include project awards for AI literacy in community colleges ($999,915, October 2026), rural STEM teacher professional learning ($747,663, August 2026), preschool data science learning trajectories ($649,574, August 2026), integrated computer science and elementary mathematics ($2.69 million, October 2025), and maker activities for hospitalized youth ($1.97 million, October 2025). The Department of Education awarded EDC $11 million for high-impact adolescent reading tutoring (January 2026) and support for the Institute of Education Sciences' regional laboratory network. USAID international development grants total over $678 million across literacy programs, youth empowerment, and education capacity-building in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.