Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study

CONTRACT EXTENSION NOTICE - NOT AN INVITATION FOR PROPOSAL(INFORMATION PURPOSE ONLY) Description: The Department of Education intends to issue a six-month extension to existing contract # ED-04-CO-0059/0005. The current period of performance ends on March 28, 2011(will be extended until September 27, 2011). The purpose of the extension is to enable members of the Westat team to assist the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in reviewing and finalizing deliverables in the procurement's scope of work, including a final report. On September 29, 2004, the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) of the U.S. Department of Education (ED) awarded contract ED-04-CO-0059/0005 to Westat of Rockville, Maryland to conduct a longitudinal study to follow a group of children who received preschool special education services as they progressed through the early elementary years. The ultimate goal of this evaluation was to examine children's preschool experiences and outcomes, their transition to kindergarten, and their early elementary school experiences and outcomes. In July 2005, this project was relocated from OSERS to a newly-established center in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)-the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER). Contract tasks are related to two general areas: the collection of data from children, parents, school/program administrators, teachers, and service providers and processing,analysis, and preparation of the data for internal use and public release. The researchers followed almost 3,000 children with disabilities as they progressed through preschool and into their early elementary years. Data collection began in fall 2003 and was repeated in winter 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009. Data collected included telephone interviews with parents of preschoolers with disabilities, one-on-one assessments of children participating in this study, and mail surveys with the children's teachers and other service providers, school principals, district administrators, and state education agency administrators. When the project was relocated from OSERS to NCSER, a number of organization review policies were introduced that had not been included in the original project schedule. The six month extension (until September 27, 2011)will allow Westat to finish the final report and thus complete the activities related to the processing, analysis, and preparation of data. This will allow the resulting report to be publicly released in accordance with IES policies. This notice is for informational purposes only. A request for proposal is not available. Interested parties may, however, request further information no later than November 29, 2010 by email to Contract Specialist Joseph Gibbs at [email protected]. Place of Performance: Department of Education, Institute of Education Science, Washington, District of Columbia, US Set-Aside Designation: Not a Small Business Set-Aside