Educational Testing Service

Educational Testing Service (ETS), a nonprofit educational measurement and assessment organization headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, operates as a prime contractor on federal assessment, research, and test-administration contracts, holding seats on multiple government-wide vehicles and competes in full-and-open competition (no set-aside designations across its federal footprint). ETS is structured as a tax-exempt corporate entity with a subsidiary, Psi Services LLC, and executes the vast majority of its federal work as a prime rather than subcontractor (98% of recent awards).

ETS's federal footprint concentrates heavily on educational assessment, standardized test administration, and education-research support. Recent major work includes a $101.3 million firm fixed-price contract with the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences for National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Platform Development Services through December 2029; a $66 million IES contract for NAEP Assessment Content Development through the same date; and an $82 million IES contract for NAEP Design, Analysis, and Reporting Services. Earlier contracts span GRE and TOEFL voucher provisioning to the Army's Training and Doctrine Command (multiple BPA calls valued collectively at roughly $1.1 million between 2021 and 2023) and criterion learning assessments for military training programs.

Customer concentration is pronounced: the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences dominates by potential value, with 50 awards carrying $3.73 billion in combined potential value — roughly 98% of ETS's total federal award portfolio. The Department of the Navy ranks second by award count (138 awards) but carries modest dollar value; the Department of the Army Training and Doctrine Command places 22 awards ($7.6 million combined potential value), primarily for test vouchers and learning assessments. Across these top customers, the volume-to-value split is stark: IES anchors nearly all dollars despite representing only 11% of the 445 total awards in the source data. ETS serves 39 distinct agencies across its footprint, but the concentration in IES work defines competitive exposure and recompete risk.

ETS holds positions on the OASIS+ Unrestricted Multiple Agency Contract (GSA, awarded December 2024, ceiling $999,999,999,999, extending through December 2029) and the Procurement of Research Evaluation and Statistics Task Orders (PRESTO) multiple-award IDIQ with the Department of Education (ceiling $2 billion, extending through February 2028). On PRESTO, ETS is approved to compete for education sciences support, assessment development support, communications and outreach, recruitment, and operational support task orders. ETS also holds a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Army War College for TOEFL IBT vouchers (ceiling $125,000, subject to termination for convenience, originally scheduled through January 2026). The top five parent vehicles in the source data are Navy Basic Ordering Agreements (BOAs N0061282D0294 with 16 task orders and N0061285D0146 with 12 task orders) and a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with Army TRADOC (W91QF419A0013, 15 task orders, $2.3 million combined potential value).

Activity shows volatility in recent fiscal years: five awards in 2022, six in 2023, thirteen in 2024, and only two in 2025 and four in 2026 (through early April). The combined potential value across all 445 awards stands at $3.79 billion, with $1.09 billion obligated (29% realization). Recompete exposure is significant: the four major IES contracts awarded in late 2024 (NAEP Platform Development, NAEP Assessment Content Development, and NAEP Design, Analysis, and Reporting) carry ultimate completion dates of October–December 2029, anchoring most of ETS's dollar value through the end of this decade.

ETS's federal grant portfolio reflects applied research and educational innovation. Recent grant recipients include the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education ($4 million Project Grant under FIPSE, CFDA 84.116, for AI-enhanced scenario-based learning in postsecondary education, January 2026–December 2029); the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education ($4.4 million under the Education Innovation and Research program, CFDA 84.411, for technology-enhanced social-emotional learning, January 2024–December 2027); the National Science Foundation ($622,551 for developing authentic and fair computer science assessments, October 2021–September 2024); and the NSF Division of Research on Learning ($500+ thousand for career-long teacher professional development in mathematics and science). ETS also acts as a subgrantee under university-led federal grants from Michigan State University, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the University of Georgia, and the University of Illinois, contributing assessment expertise, mentorship, and research support to STEM education and artificial-intelligence-integrated learning initiatives.

As a subcontractor, ETS performs specialized assessment and research work on a limited basis. Named primes include Research Triangle Institute (High School and Beyond Longitudinal Study work, August 2024) and the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (International Data Explorer development and maintenance, January 2024). Subcontracting represents 2% of ETS's recent awards and does not characterize its federal strategy; ETS is primarily a prime contractor and direct recipient.

Service Contract Inventory data show minimal SCI-reportable activity (15 total records across FY2022–FY2024, all above the $150,000 threshold). SCI-reported invoiced revenue for prime contracts was zero across all three fiscal years. FTE trajectory in the SCI dataset shows 0 FTEs in FY2022 and FY2023, and 350 FTEs reported in FY2024 across four prime records. This FTE activity likely reflects late reporting or classification adjustments for major NAEP work rather than annual workforce scale — SCI is a narrow slice of ETS's federal services activity, excluding goods procurement, the national assessments, and other work below or outside the SCI reporting scope. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the average sub-hours share was zero, indicating that ETS builds its own delivery teams on contracts captured in the SCI dataset.