Robert Woolfolk

Robert Woolfolk serves as a key procurement professional within the Contracts and Acquisitions Management unit of the U.S. Department of Education, where he oversees the strategic acquisition of professional services critical to advancing federal education policy and research infrastructure. His responsibilities include managing the full lifecycle of contracts for social science and humanities research, data system modernization, and regulatory compliance support, ensuring alignment with national priorities in postsecondary education and student aid administration. Woolfolk specializes in complex, performance-based acquisitions that require rigorous evaluation of methodological rigor, data integrity, and institutional capacity, often involving multi-year task orders under indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) vehicles. He maintains a primary working relationship with LPE-STRATEGIES LLC, a specialized provider of policy analysis and research services in the education sector. His contracting patterns reflect a preference for long-term, high-trust partnerships with firms demonstrating deep subject-matter expertise in education research, survey design, and federal compliance frameworks. These relationships are characterized by sustained performance, iterative contract modifications, and collaborative requirement development rather than transactional bidding cycles. Woolfolk’s procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a deliberate focus on technical excellence and domain-specific capability over socioeconomic categorization, prioritizing the quality and relevance of deliverables over vendor classification. While small business participation is not formally incentivized in his portfolio, vendors of all sizes are evaluated solely on their demonstrated capacity to meet complex federal research and evaluation requirements. His primary NAICS focus is 541720—Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities—encompassing evaluations of federal education programs, longitudinal data analysis, stakeholder engagement studies, and policy impact assessments. He routinely procures services related to survey instrumentation, statistical modeling, qualitative research, and federal reporting systems, requiring contractors to possess proven experience with NCES, IPEDS, and other Department of Education data architectures.