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The 糖心少女 (NYSED) Office of Special 糖心少女 and ACCES-Adult Career and Continuing 糖心少女 Services is seeking proposals for the New York State High School Equivalency Testing Program. The proposal will be for a program which can develop and deliver a computer-based (CBT) and paper-based test (PBT) which meets the standards of the New York State High School Equivalency (NYS HSE) exam, available for delivery in both English and Spanish.听

CBT delivery has been steadily increasing since its launch in 2014. It remains a goal of the NYS HSE Testing Program to fully expand CBT statewide, continuing to shift from PBT to CBT administration for all public testing sites. In 2024 CBT testing accounted for approximately 87% of overall test delivery in NYS. The contractor must provide a plan that is sufficiently flexible to support statewide test centers in delivery of CBT and PBT testing. Currently, correctional facilities and a limited number of private not-for-profit entities and public organizations administer PBT. The contractor must ensure that the test can be accessed by the existing computers and infrastructure available in New York State鈥檚 HSE test centers that are identified by NYSED. The contractor will provide a tool, utility, or process for test centers to use to verify the capacity of their technical infrastructure for conducting CBTs that use the contractor鈥檚 test administration platform.听

Eligible applicants are for-profit or not-for-profit entities, including large testing companies and/or educational organizations. Eligible applicants will have demonstrated capacity to complete all required services for large-scale assessments and demonstrated experience in educational measurement, scaling and equating, score collection, standard setting, data analysis, technical reporting, CBT administration and the ability to either administer tests fully remotely, or subcontract for such.

Subcontracting

Subcontracting will be limited to thirty percent (30%) of the total contract budget. Subcontracting is defined as non-employee direct personal services and related incidental expenses, including travel.

Terms of Contract

NYSED will award one contract pursuant to this RFP. The contract resulting from this RFP will be for a five-year, two-month term anticipated to begin听November 1, 2026听and to end听December 31, 2031. The NYS HSE Testing Program must be available for implementation by January 1, 2027. However, the vendor must begin necessary preparatory work by November 1, 2026.

Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (M/WBE)

Bidders are required to comply with NYSED鈥檚 Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (M/WBE) participation goals for this RFP through one of three methods. Compliance methods are discussed in detail in the Minority/Women-Owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) Participation Goals within the RFP.

RFP Components

Components contained in RFP #303 are as follows:

1. Description of Services to Be Performed
2. Submission
3. Evaluation Criteria and Method of Award
4. Assurances
5. Submission Documents (separate document)
6. Attachments

Questions regarding the request must be submitted via no later than the close of business June 02, 2026. A Questions and Answers Summary will be posted no later than June 16, 2026.

Bidders are requested to submit their bids electronically. The following documents, as detailed in the Submission section of this RFP, must be received via no later than July 07, 2026.

1. Submission Documents labeled <name of bidder> Submission Documents RFP #303
2. Technical Proposal labeled <name of bidder> Technical Proposal RFP #303
3. Cost Proposal labeled <name of bidder> Cost Proposal RFP #303
4. M/WBE Documents labeled <name of bidder> M/WBE Documents RFP #303

Instructions for Submitting an Electronic Bid:听

1. The technical and cost proposal documents should be submitted in Microsoft Office format. PDF files that are editable and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) searchable are acceptable. Please do not submit the technical or cost proposal as a scanned PDF.听
2. Submission documents requiring a signature must be signed using one of the methods listed below and may be submitted as a Microsoft Office, PDF, or JPG document. A scanned PDF is acceptable for these documents.
3. The following forms of e-signatures are acceptable:
   
   1. handwritten signatures on faxed or scanned documents
   2. e-signatures that have been authenticated by a third-party digital software, such as DocuSign and Adobe Sign
   3. stored copies of the images of signatures that are placed on a document by copying and pasting or otherwise inserting them into the documents听
4. Unacceptable forms of e-signatures include:
   
   1. a typed name, including a signature created by selecting a script or calligraphy font for the typed name of the person 鈥渟igning鈥�
5. To identify the signer and indicate that the signer understood and intended to agree to the terms of the signed document, the signer will sign beside or provide by email the following attestation: 鈥淚 agree, and it is my intent, to sign this document by <describe the signature solution used> and by electronically submitting this document to <name of recipient individual or entity>. I understand that my signing and submitting this document is the legal equivalent of having placed my handwritten signature on the submitted document and this attestation. I understand and agree that by electronically signing and submitting this document I am affirming to the truth of the information contained therein.鈥�
6. To ensure receipt of your bid, please ensure that the RFP number and title listed on page 1 are accurately entered into the fields 鈥淧rocurement No鈥� and 鈥淧rocurement Title/Name鈥� on the . Failure to include this information may result in the bid not being received by the deadline or considered for award.

Program Matters	Fiscal Matters	MWBE Matters
Cily Rueda cily.rueda@nysed.gov	Kiah Sexton kiah.sexton@nysed.gov	Kiah Sexton kiah.sexton@nysed.gov

• RFP Document (Word)
• RFP Document (PDF)听
• Cost Proposal听
• Submission Documents听