Under Contract

The Eastern Research Group Inc. will continue working on economic impact analysis as the Labor Department revises and rolls back an Obama-era rule that would have made more workers eligible for overtime pay. They had done similar work on the last regulation. The $357,870 contract includes categorizing comments received during a comment period on the notice of proposed rulemaking for the new rule and a report that includes “comment segments to be used in developing a final rule.”

The Department of Education awarded a contract that could be worth up to $6.2 million to help the department “evaluate the impact of departmentalized instruction in elementary schools on student achievement,” according to contract documents. The contractor, Mathematica Policy Research, will look at how switching from a system where “teachers teach all subjects to a fraction of students in a particular grade,” known as self-contained instruction, to departmentalized instruction, where teachers teach one subject to all students in a particular grade. “The evaluation will focus on math and reading in the upper elementary grades ([grades] 4 and 5), with an emphasis on schools that serve a high percentage of disadvantaged students and are in need of improvement,” the contract says.

{mosads}SciSpace LLC won a $16.7 million contract to give scientific analysis and other logistical help to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Specifically, SciSpace will focus on the Earth Sciences Division of the Science and Exploration Directorate of the Goddard Space Flight Center, which researches issues like “the climate impacts affecting Earth’s habitability” and the “natural and man-made changes in our environment” that occur over time.

The U.S. Secret Service awarded a $3.2 million contract to FEEA Childcare Services to manage and administer its childcare subsidy program, which offers lower-income federal employees subsidies to help pay for day care. The contractor will determine whether an employee qualifies for the program, oversee a waiting list for those who want to participate and evaluate whether a child care center is eligible to receive the federal funds. There is an estimated 243 participants in the program, according to a contract solicitation.

Contract information compiled from General Services Administration data and government press releases. Send announcements about government contracts to mwilson@digital-staging.thehill.com.