Missouri Foundational Reading Assessment Qualified Vendor List (QVL)

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is seeking vendors to provide Missouri Foundational Reading Assessment services for local education agencies. The contractor will be responsible for providing beginning-of-year, middle-of-year, and end-of-year assessments for grades K-5. The assessment must meet certain technical and classification adequacy requirements, and the contractor must provide data reports and support for the assessment. The contract period will be from the effective date of the contract to June 30, 2026. Some key points to consider: • The contractor must have at least five years of experience in the field of Science of Reading and successful implementation of their assessment tools. • The contractor must provide a technical manual and a technical document that articulates the sub-measure reporting. • The assessment results must include a Lexile score for each student and identify an overall grade risk level based on a composite or scale score. • The contractor must provide progress monitoring tools and data reports to the state agency. • The contractor must ensure that administration time is efficient and takes less than sixty minutes to administer. • The assessment must be linguistically and culturally authentic, and the contractor must provide guidance for interpreting scores for bi/lingual students and/or English Learners.