SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- What Works Clearinghouse
- Notice Date
- 5/25/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541720
— Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Contracting Office
- Department of Education, Contracts & Acquisitions Management, Contracts (All ED Components), 550 12th Street, SW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC, 20202
- ZIP Code
- 20202
- Solicitation Number
- ED-06-R-0027
- Description
- The Department of Education intends to award a five-year contract to continue the operation and further development of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC). This is a full and open procurement to operate the Clearinghouse, and it is open to all responsible sources. The Clearinghouse promotes informed education decision- making through a set of easily accessible, searchable databases and user-friendly reports that provide education consumers with high-quality reviews of the effectiveness of replicable educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies) that are intended to improve student achievement (www.whatworks.ed.gov). The new Clearinghouse will continue some of the features that began under the original contract, including: completing systematic reviews of evidence-based research on effective interventions in elementary school math, beginning reading, early childhood education, and dropout prevention that are currently underway, and producing evidence reports on those reviews; updating evidence standards and criteria for conducting systematic reviews on an as-needed basis; and developing and maintaining the registry of outcome evaluators and the WWC Help Desk. New tasks to be developed and implemented under this new contract include: developing and maintaining searchable databases of registries of education interventions, and randomized control trials of education interventions; cost-of-implementation analyses; a streamlined, fast-response systematic review process; evidence standards, rating criteria and a systematic review of the best available evidence when rigorous research is lacking, a directory of easy answers to technical issues; 48-hour turnaround reviews of individual studies; and, validation studies on study author's original data submissions. The Request for Proposals will be released on this website on or about June 19, 2006.
- Record
- SN01057068-W 20060527/060525220437 (fbodaily.com)
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