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IMMEDIATE RELEASE

College Park, MD - February 19, 2010 -Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Education as a contractor under its Streamlined Acquisition Tool Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), a research, evaluation and technical assistance contract. ED-SAT provides an expedient way to meet the recurring needs of the U.S. Department of Education by using pre-competed pools of experts. This contracting mechanism presents Optimal with the opportunity to compete for task orders to meet program, policy, and research initiatives of the U.S. Department of Education.

Optimal, along with other task order contractors in Pool A, will work with the U.S. Department of Education to provide internal evaluation and analysis of policy programs on emerging education issues and policy that may affect budgetary, legislative, and programmatic decisions. Additionally, Optimal’s research staff may compete for Pool B tasks associated with assessing important details and trends in educational program effectiveness. ED-SAT contractors in Pool B are expected to develop innovative methodologies for data analysis with reporting.

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Founded in 2000, Optimal Solutions Group, LLC is a non-partisan public policy research firm dedicated to rigorous and evidence-based research. Optimal's clients are local, state, and federal governments; non-governmental organizations; and corporations and foundations. Located in the M Square Research Park, Optimal has grown quickly by building on a reputation of exceptional services and products. Our clients benefit from our innovations, value, and efficiency, which we have been able to establish through a robust technology-based infrastructure, uncompromising and documented quality-control procedures, and effective employee recruitment techniques. Optimal has four research centers: health, education, workforce development, and housing.

For more information, please contact Optimal's Communications Department at 301.306.1170 or info@optimalsolutionsgroup.com.


 

Optimal Analytics' Real-Time Framework is based on rigorous but flexible design and allows for concurrent data collection, analysis and reporting. It also incorporates a continuous feedback loop for customized stakeholder reporting - ranging from policy makers to the public.
 
Optimal has applied the Framework to projects in its four core policy areas: education; health; housing, economic development and transportation; and workforce development.
 
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Optimal has developed Revelo TM - research focused software which performs the Real-Time Framework functions of data collection, analysis and reporting.

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