CCMRI

Pricing & how to buy

Published rates.
Plain arithmetic.

Every rate is on this page. There is no "contact sales for pricing" — a public buyer shouldn't have to book a call to find out what something costs.

What does CCMRI cost?

Four ways to partner. Two share performance with us; two are flat, if your district prefers pure budget certainty and no financial alignment at all.

All rates are per school year. Enrollment is taken from the annual PEIMS snapshot.
Option Structure Scope Risk profile
1 — Outcomes partnership
Recommended
$1 / student / year
+ 5% of the Bonus-Outcome increase above your baseline
All K-12 Lowest guaranteed cost. Everything beyond the $1 floor is 5¢ on a new dollar the state actually paid you.
2 — Flat, district-wide $3 / student / year
no revenue share
All K-12 Fixed budget line. You keep 100% of any growth — but you pay it whether or not results come.
3 — High-school scope + outcomes $3 / HS student / year
+ 5% of the increase
Grades 9–12 Narrower footprint, same pay-for-performance core. Buys none of the K-8 early pipeline.
4 — High-school scope, flat $9 / HS student / year
no revenue share
Grades 9–12 Simplest possible deal. No K-8 pipeline, and no shared risk.

Under Options 1 and 3 the district keeps 95% of every new bonus dollar. Options 2 and 4 carry no performance component at all.

How does the 5% actually work?

The performance fee is 5% of the increase in Bonus-Outcome revenue above your own pre-platform baseline — not 5% of your funding. Your existing baseline is never billable.

Invoiced after the state pays

TEA settles outcomes bonuses roughly two years after the outcomes are produced. The performance fee follows that money — never ahead of it. CCMRI does not front capital and never asks a district to pay before the state does.

Only positive deltas count

A down year owes nothing on the performance component. There is no clawback and no penalty. If Bonus Outcomes never rise, the district has paid only the per-student floor.

Written as a rate card

In contract the 5% is expressed as a fixed rate card per additional qualifying outcome — the structure Texas outcomes-based contracting already uses, procured best-value under TEC §44.031. Mathematically identical, cleaner for your counsel.

The conflict-of-interest question, answered up front. A purchasing director should ask whether a vendor paid on a metric can be trusted near that metric's data. CCMRI never determines whether a student met an indicator — that comes from your assessment scores, certification records and enrollment data, and the payable outcome is settled by TEA. Every write to a student record is attributed to a named district user in an immutable audit trail you can read directly. And Options 2 and 4 exist precisely so a district can remove the alignment entirely.

What does that look like on a real district?

A de-identified example built entirely from published TEA CCMR Outcomes-Bonus finals, so you can run the same arithmetic on your own district.

A 27,500-student North Texas district

TEA CCMR Outcomes-Bonus finals, 2021–2024
Bonus revenue received, 2021 → 2024$149K → $219K → $214K → $493K
Maximum potential at current cohort size$9.98M / year
Current capture rate4.9%
Left unclaimed each year≈ $9.5M

The district's 2024 result more than doubled 2023 without any new platform — the outcomes are there when someone goes looking for them.

Modelled three-year trajectory

 Yr 1Yr 2Yr 3
Capture rate17%21.5%23.5%
Bonus revenue$1.69M$2.14M$2.35M
New money vs. baseline+$1.2M+$1.65M+$1.85M
This is a model, not a promise. The trajectory assumes capture climbing toward a research-calibrated ceiling; it is calibrated to TEA data and published research, and your actual fee under Options 1 and 3 self-adjusts to whatever really happens. If the increase doesn't materialise, the fee doesn't either.

How does a Texas district actually buy this?

Three routes, depending on your purchasing threshold and board calendar.

Cooperative purchasing

Texas districts can buy through competitively procured co-op contracts without running their own RFP — BuyBoard (TASB), TIPS (ESC Region 8), and Choice Partners (Harris County Dept. of Education).

Ask us where we currently stand on each contract before you plan around it — we'll tell you straight rather than imply coverage we don't have.

Sole source

Where a district's policy allows it, CCMRI provides a signed sole-source letter on company letterhead stating the factual basis, including patent-pending status (App. #64/068,075).

Read the sole-source justification →

Open RFP

We respond to formal solicitations and can supply a completed K-12CVAT or HECVAT, our VPAT 2.5 accessibility report, and the full vendor security packet as standard attachments.

See the procurement document set →

The paperwork, in order

Data privacy agreement

We have signed the SDPC National Data Privacy Agreement with the Texas exhibit (TX-NDPA) unmodified, so your team executes the instrument it already knows. Districts in the Texas Student Privacy Alliance can leverage an existing signed agreement through the SDPC Resource Registry.

Security review

K-12CVAT / HECVAT, VPAT 2.5, subprocessor list, encryption and retention detail — all available before you commit, not after.

Master Services Agreement

Pricing and terms live in the MSA; student data lives in the DPA. Two separate instruments, both for your counsel's review.

Pricing questions

How much does CCMRI cost?

Four published options. The recommended outcomes partnership is $1 per enrolled student per year across all K-12 grades, plus 5% of the increase in Bonus-Outcome revenue above your own pre-platform baseline. The flat alternatives are $3 per student per year district-wide, $3 per high-school student per year plus the same 5%, or $9 per high-school student per year flat. Under the outcomes options the district keeps 95% of every new bonus dollar.

When is the performance fee invoiced?

Only after the state pays you. TEA settles CCMR outcomes bonuses roughly two years after the outcomes are produced, and our performance fee follows that money rather than preceding it. CCMRI does not front capital and does not ask a district to pay in advance of state funds arriving. This is the single most common question from business offices, and the answer never changes.

What happens in a year when Bonus Outcomes go down?

Nothing is owed on the performance component. Only positive increases above your own pre-platform baseline are billable. There is no clawback and no penalty, and your existing baseline revenue is never billable under any option. In a flat year under Option 1, a district has paid only the $1 per student floor.

Can we buy CCMRI without running an RFP?

Often yes. Texas districts can purchase through competitively procured cooperative contracts such as BuyBoard (TASB), TIPS (ESC Region 8) and Choice Partners (Harris County Department of Education). A district may also proceed under a sole-source justification, for which we provide a signed letter stating the factual basis including our patent-pending status. Ask us where we stand on any specific co-op before planning around it.

What data privacy agreement do you sign?

We have signed the SDPC National Data Privacy Agreement with the Texas exhibit — TX-NDPA — unmodified, so districts execute the instrument they already know. The Master Services Agreement covering pricing and the Data Privacy Agreement covering student data are separate instruments; both go to your counsel for review.

How do districts typically fund CCMRI?

Common sources are Perkins V career and technical education funds, ESSA Title IV-A Student Support and Academic Enrichment funds — which districts frequently use for college and career counselling — Title I-A where the population qualifies, state CTE allotment funds, and the local general fund technology or accountability budget. We'll map your chosen option to the codes you actually have, including saying when we think a source doesn't fit.

Is there a minimum contract term?

Terms are set in the Master Services Agreement and are open to negotiation with your counsel. Because TEA settles bonuses on roughly a two-year lag, the outcomes options include a survival clause so that a fee earned during the term is still payable when the state funds actually arrive — and equally, so the district is never billed for an increase it did not receive.

Want these numbers run on your district — free?

Send us your district name and we'll come back — at no cost and with no obligation — with your published TEA capture rate, a 2031 differential-weighting estimate, and what each of the four options would actually cost you. A demo loaded with your own TAPR data comes with it, before any meeting.

Look up my district first

Four fields. You get a 2031 estimate and a demo on your own TAPR data — no cost, no obligation, no drip list. Phil Steinert, founder · phil@txccmri.com