Specifications include, but are not limited to: develop, manage and licenses the content of the previous Illinois assessment, PARCC, to ensure comparability to previous administrations of the PARCC assessment sufficient for use in the Illinois accountability system. This will include, at least initially, reporting on the PARCC scale. This Offeror must work in collaboration with New Meridian, as well as any other vendors ISBE may specify at a future date, in order to ensure successful administration, scoring, and reporting of assessment results. Offerors will be responsible for development and sustainability of a high quality program of assessment that builds and expands on the foundations established previously in Illinois.