U.S. Department of Education Streamlined Acquisition Tool
The Streamlined Acquisition Tool (ED-SAT) is a collection of pools of blanket purchase agreements. Each pool represents a recurring need of the U.S. Department of Education (ED). WestEd has a blanket purchase agreement under each of ED-SAT’s three pools:
Pool A: Policy, Program, and Performance Analysis and Evaluation
Pool B: Research and Assessment Design, Data Collection, and Analysis
Pool C: Technical Assistance
ED-SAT provides ED with technical and analytical support in conducting program, policy, and statistical analyses, performance measurement, and evaluations. It offers ED access to products and services across a wide range of subject areas related to key education issues in an effort to help individual offices within ED achieve their respective mission in a timely manner. WestEd's work addresses ED's priority areas of interest, including:
- Preprimary education
- Elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education
- Special education
- Family literacy
- Bilingual education
- Healthy human development
- Research and data collection on educational improvement
- Professional development
- Vocational education (career technical education)
Recent WestEd work under MATO (the previous iteration of ED-SAT) includes:
- Technical assistance to promote effective implementation of small learning communities
- Building Choice, a website designed to help implement and maintain public school choice programs
- Doing What Works, a website that helps educators see how schools have implemented research-based practices and helps them plan their own improvement strategies
- Innovations in Education Guides that identify promising practices being carried out by selected schools, districts, and other education organizations