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Digital Promise K12 AI Infrastructure RFP: open source formative assessment harness
Up to $600,000 each for up to two U.S. teams building an open toolkit for AI formative assessment tools. Deadline 20 November 2026.
The package can be an education tuned open source harness, a reference architecture or a starter kit that helps developers test and integrate published education public goods into teacher facing AI tools.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Number of awards | Up to 2 |
| Duration | 18 months in three phases of 6 months |
| Estimated start | 1 February 2027 |
| Deadline time | 11:59 p.m. Anywhere on Earth |
Requirements:
- At least four tasks for teacher and AI coordination on formative assessment
- Evidence of effectiveness, such as a technical white paper
- Online form with an abstract of up to 350 words
- Narrative PDF of up to 6,000 words and a supplemental PDF with figures, CVs and letters
- Budget in XLS or XLSX with justification
Timeline:
- First phase ends with a working prototype built on published public goods
- Second phase adds an upgraded version with first benchmark results
- Third phase ends with the final package, released after a safety review
Source · k12-ai-infrastructure.org/harness-rfp
Published 7 October 2026 · Checked against the organizer's page 11 November 2026
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Quick answers
Which licences must the work use?
MIT or Apache 2.0 for code and CC BY 4.0 for datasets and other components. Dependencies must also be openly licensed.
Who is the main user of the package?
Third party developers. A teacher facing demonstration app is required, but most of the work must serve developers.