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Retrospective: Key Decision Points in A Contracting Agency’s Development of an RFP

South Carolina's Basic Skills Assessment Program Legislation was signed into law on August 4, 1978, by the Governor of South Carolina. Immediately following the signing of the legislation into law, the South Carolina Department of Education (the Department) was delegated the responsibility of coordinating and implementing the legislation. Consequently, the Office of Research within the Department was given the responsibility of coordinating the activities involved in the implementation of the law with the Educational Assessment Section within the Office of Research receiving the "ultimate challenge." Although the responsibility of coordination was assigned to the Office of Research, the actual implementation was to be the joint effort of two offices, the Office of Research and the Office of General Education. With the assignment of responsibilities completed, the tasks at hand were the two first-year activities. One first-year activity was the establishment of statewide educational objectives in the basic areas of Reading, Writing, and Mathematics in Grades