Specifications include, but are not limited to: Providing benchmark assessments, aligned to Michigan’s State content standards, for their students, beginning in the 2018-19 school year. No more than four (4) Contracts will be awarded. The assessments are to be delivered online only, made available to students in grades K-8, and must cover content in Mathematics and ELA. As a further clarification, benchmark assessments for grades 3-8 are required to be provided and an additional K-2 component is strongly desired by MDE. These Benchmark assessments are to be provided on a per-student, subscription basis. The subscription must allow a subscribed student to take a minimum of two benchmark assessments in a given school year. Benchmark assessment solutions may offer tests that are comprehensive in nature, could be based on smaller portions (“blocks”) of content, or both.