For evaluation firms, consultancies, institutions, and advisors
Completion rates, placement figures, salary gains, retention counts. Every one of them records what already happened. None of them explains why it happened, and none arrives while there is still time to change it.
Sims Praxis supplies the instrument layer inside your engagement. You keep the client, the qualitative work, the timeline, and the deliverable. We handle administration, scoring, and subscale analysis, then hand you a results memo written to drop straight into your report.
Who brings us in
The instrument changes. The problem does not. In each case someone is asking something the existing data describes but cannot explain.
Where we fit
Most firms hesitate here because they expect a subcontractor to drift toward the client. This is the full extent of our footprint.
What you receive
Which instrument fits the population and the evaluation question, why, and what it will and will not tell you. Written so you can put it in front of your client or the funder.
Survey build, participant code scheme, coordinator instructions, and a response monitoring schedule with a midpoint alert if rates run low.
Cleaned dataset, reverse-coded and scored, with subscale profiles, risk tier assignment, and demographic disaggregation where sample size supports it.
Findings written in plain language with the statistical detail in an appendix, formatted to drop into your report as a section rather than an attachment.
Boundaries
These are contract terms, not assurances.
Before the award
Naming a psychometric partner strengthens a bid, and the scope can sit in your budget from the start rather than becoming an unplanned cost later. The arithmetic below uses a grant-funded evaluation because that is where the percentages are published, but the logic holds for any engagement: the instrument component is a small fraction of a line you are already quoting.
Engagement shapes
No hourly billing and no change orders for analysis. Each package covers one instrument for up to 300 respondents.
One time point
$6,500
A single administration producing a subscale profile of the population at one moment. Fits baseline assessment, organizational diagnosis, and needs analysis.
Two time points
$11,500
Administration at entry and exit with change analysis. The standard shape for leadership development, training programs, and any intervention with a defined start and end.
Three time points
$16,500
Intake, midpoint, and exit. Produces risk trajectory rather than a static score, which is what makes early intervention possible while participants are still enrolled.
Additional instrument in the same engagement · $2,500 Respondents beyond 300 · $4 each, waived under early access Debrief session with your team or client · $1,200 Custom subscale added to an instrument · quoted per scope
Instrument fit
Where the instruments stand
OAIRS, PPRRS-WA, LCEP, and PACCI are covered by a validation protocol determined exempt by an accredited independent institutional review board in August 2026. Data collection is authorized and has not begun. SBIIS is under institutional review at Indiana Wesleyan University.
Nothing is described as validated before it is. Every engagement states the instrument’s development stage in writing, and that language appears in the results memo so your report carries the same disclosure your client would want.
Engagements before validation completes run under early access terms. Per-respondent licensing is waived, your client receives full subscale reporting, and de-identified responses contribute to the validation record. Post-validation licensing is offered at a reduced rate to early access partners.
Send the population, the question your client is actually asking, and your deadline. We will return a scope and a fixed fee you can put straight into your proposal.
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