Re: Internecine Testing Industry Warfare

["George K Cunningham" <gkc@louisville.edu>]

Juanita,
 
Riverside generally does not compete for the big state contracts.  It
used to be just McGraw-Hill and Harcourt Brace, but now ETS is actively
competing.  For the big california contract last year, there were four
proposal: (1) McGraw-Hill submitted a proposal to use theIr CAT test,
Harcourt submitted a bid using the SAT-10, McGraw-Hill submitted a bid
to use the ITBS (published by Riverside), go figure, and ETS submitted
the winning bid which was to use McGraw-Hill's CAT.
 
Is ETS' proposal to use the CAT?
 
 
George K. Cunningham
University of Louisville

>>> Jedoyon@aol.com 01/07/03 02:16AM >>>
In a message dated 1/6/03 9:36:31 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
bobschaeffer@earthlink.net writes:

> Three days later, new bids were opened, with ETS coming in with by
far 
> the most expensive proposal at $35.6 million over four years.
Harcourt 
> proposed $20.9 million. The other two bidders, NCS-Pearson and 
> CTB-McGraw Hill, proposed $18.5 million and $20 million,
respectively.
> 
> ETS won a first round of bidding last month with a $33 million
proposal, 
> almost twice the amount of Harcourt's. But after Harcourt appealed
then 
> as well, ETS' bid was rejected by the state treasurer's office as not

> conforming to the state's requirements.
> 

Where's Riverside?  Don't they need to money?  Or are they all tied up
with 
the WASL mess?  Why does an image of the tigers in Little Black Sambo
come to 
mind?  Give these beasts the clothing off our kids' backs and start
making 
pancakes.  The butter's churning.

Juanita