Special Education Identification, Service Delivery, and Program Effectiveness Audit Services

The government authority in Providence, Rhode Island seeks a vendor to provide special education identification, service delivery, and program effectiveness audit services. The buyer requires the selected US organization to perform the work offsite. The scope entails examining special education identification patterns across student groups, evaluating referral and evaluation practices, identifying causes of over-identification or disproportionality, and recommending strategies to enhance equity and decrease inappropriate referrals. Additionally, the contractor must analyze five years of district special education data for pre-K through grade eight students by examining identification rates across race or ethnicity, dually identified status, gender, socioeconomic status, grade level, school, and disability categories. The vendor must calculate risk ratios and disproportionate indicators while reviewing co-teaching implementation, consultation models, resource room utilization, related services delivery, scheduling, and staffing allocations. Interested vendors must submit all questions by September 4, 2026, and the buyer is currently looking for proposal budget submissions.