Description
The Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council seeks a qualified vendor to support the development of a new licensure examination for psychologists and psychological associates. The examination will assess minimum competence for safe and effective practice and will support supervised and independent practice thresholds. The scope of work includes examination development, psychometric services, administration, and program management. The vendor should have experience in developing and administering high-stakes licensure examinations and should be able to provide a comprehensive approach to delivering the scope of work.
• The vendor should have at least five years of experience in developing, administering, and maintaining high-stakes licensure, certification, or regulatory examinations.
• The vendor should have demonstrable expertise in psychometric and examination development services.
• The vendor should have experience supporting professional licensing boards, certification bodies, governmental agencies, or similar organizations responsible for credentialing decisions.
• The vendor should have the ability to administer secure computer-based examinations through a scalable testing platform capable of supporting future expansion to regional or national candidate populations.
• The vendor should have demonstrated examination security capabilities, including secure item banking, candidate identity verification, test center or remote proctoring solutions, incident response procedures, and data protection measures.