Educational Testing Service

Educational Testing Service, a tax-exempt nonprofit headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, operates as a federal prime contractor delivering educational assessment, standardized test administration, psychometric research, and education-science support services to civilian and defense agencies, with pronounced customer concentration in the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences and secondary presence across the Department of the Navy, Department of the Army, and GSA.

ETS competes predominantly full-and-open without set-aside designations across its prime footprint (97% of awards), operating across primary NAICS categories 611710 (Educational Support Services, 62 awards), 541720 (Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, 18 awards), and 611430 (Professional and Management Development Training, 18 awards). The nonprofit holds a subsidiary, Psi Services LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. ETS's customer concentration is stark: the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) anchors 50 awards carrying $3.76 billion in combined potential value—approximately 98% of ETS's total federal portfolio. The top five customers by award count—the Navy (138 awards), IES (50 awards), the Army Training and Doctrine Command (22 awards), and the Department of Defense Education Activity (20 awards)—account for 61% of total awards; by potential value, IES dominates at over 99% of the combined portfolio dollars.

Recent prime contract work centers on large NAEP delivery vehicles. ETS received three definitive-contract awards from IES on December 20, 2024, and November 1, 2024, for National Assessment of Educational Progress platform development services ($110.9 million ceiling, five-year term through December 2029), assessment content development ($75.1 million), and design-analysis-and-reporting services ($88.8 million), plus program and operations coordination ($16.8 million). These awards modify existing contracts to add core work, reflecting ETS's incumbent position on NAEP assessment delivery. Secondary work includes GRE and TOEFL voucher procurement through TRADOC blanket purchase agreements (BPA calls ranging from $84 thousand to $499.8 thousand annually from 2021 through 2023) and criterion learning assessment delivery for Fort Leavenworth military education programs.

ETS holds three federal indefinite-delivery vehicles: the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus (OASIS+) Unrestricted IDIQ (awarded December 17, 2024, no dollar ceiling specified in the source, through December 16, 2029); the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (five-year term through September 16, 2031, $5 million ceiling, 36 active labor categories spanning $83.28/hr Program Administrator Associate roles through $295.98/hr Executive Director positions, all bachelor's to master's degree, no security-cleared roles); and the Procurement of Research Evaluation and Statistics Task Orders (PRESTO) multiple-award IDIQ with IES ($2 billion ceiling, through February 27, 2028). The Navy's Basic Ordering Agreement N0061282D0294 represents ETS's largest parent vehicle by task-order count (16 task orders), followed by the Army's Blanket Purchase Agreement W91QF419A0013 (15 task orders, $2.3 million combined potential value).

Activity has remained modest and cyclical. ETS received five awards in 2022, six in 2023, thirteen in 2024, three in 2025, and seven in 2026. Only one award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The NAEP platform, content, and analysis contracts—worth $275 million across three concurrent five-year vehicles—do not expire until late 2029, anchoring ETS's federal revenue stream through the decade.

ETS operates as a prime on 97% of its awards and subcontracts to other primes on 3%. Recent subcontract work includes data explorer development support to American Institutes for Research (International Data Explorer development for NCES survey files) and longitudinal study analysis to Research Triangle Institute (High School and Beyond Year 7 funding). The Service Contract Inventory dataset shows zero invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2025 (ETS-reported contracts either fall below the $150,000 SCI threshold or are classified as product/goods rather than services), with sporadic FTE reporting (350 FTEs in FY2024, 1.3 FTEs in FY2025), reflecting SCI's partial coverage of ETS's federal footprint.

ETS's federal grant footprint includes six Project Grants as prime recipient from NSF, the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. Recent recipients include a $3.99 million FIPSE award for AI-enhanced scenario-based learning in higher education (CFDA 84.116, through December 31, 2029), a $4.4 million Education Innovation and Research grant for middle-grade social-emotional learning through technology-enhanced collaboration (CFDA 84.411, through December 31, 2027), and a $129.9 thousand NSF STEM Education grant for digital clinical simulations in mathematics coaching cycles (CFDA 47.076, through August 31, 2029). ETS also serves as sub-recipient on university-led grants from Michigan State University, University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Georgia, University of Chicago, and University of Illinois, contributing psychometric research, assessment design, and researcher mentorship on education measurement, AI applications in learning, and trait assessment modeling.