SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Analysis of the Marginal Benefits of the Student Financial Assistance Programs
- Notice Date
- 11/6/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Education, Contracts & Acquisitions Management, Contracts (All ED Components), 550 12th Street, SW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC, 20202, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-EDPEPD-07-000001
- Response Due
- 11/16/2006
- Archive Date
- 12/1/2006
- Description
- Pending the availability of funding, the U.S. Department of Education intends to issue a sole source purchase order to Dr. Susan Dynarski. The purpose of this purchase order is to review and critique the preliminary analysis of the marginal benefits of the student financial assistance programs submitted to OMB in the fall of 2006. OMB's President's Management Agenda scorecard for Budget and Performance Integration has set a target of December 31, 2006, for the Department to complete an independent report on the Department's preliminary analysis. In accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), the Contracting Officer has determined that only one source, Dr. Susan Dynarski, is reasonably available to meet this requirement. Dr. Susan Dynarski, associate professor of public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, is a nationally recognized expert on higher education funding. She has been a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1999 and has written extensively on the impact of grants and loans on college attendance, the impact of government policy on college completion rates, and the distributional aspects of college savings initiatives. She holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Dynarski's article "Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion" (American Economic Review, March 2003), was the foundation of the Department's preliminary analysis, which attempted to quantify the impact of increasing Federal grant aid on postsecondary enrollment. Given her intimate familiarity with both the methodology used and available data sources, she is uniquely qualified to review and critique the analysis, as well as to offer insights on the feasibility of expanding the analytical approach. The Department intends to execute this purchase order on or before November 17, 2006.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Cambridge, MA
- Zip Code: 02138
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 02138
- Record
- SN01176687-W 20061108/061106220201 (fbodaily.com)
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