Utah Public Procurement Place U3P #CCSD-#SSMSSD110326

Cache County School District proposes a $15 million textbook depository contract

Cache County School District is seeking to procure textbooks through a proposed noncompetitive contract with Mountain State Schoolbook Depository. - Government buyer: Cache County School District (CCSD), Purchasing Department, with the Department of Teaching and Learning; the notice identifies Brittany Foster, Director of Teaching and Learning. - Proposed vendor: Mountain State Schoolbook Depository. No textbook publisher or OEM is named. - Products: Textbooks for the district; specific titles, part numbers, and quantities are not provided. - Procurement rationale and requirements: CCSD cites Utah requirements for publishers to maintain instructional-material inventory at an in-state depository and identifies Mountain State Schoolbook Depository as the available Utah depository. The notice also indicates that districts may purchase directly from publishers. - Estimated value and term: $15 million; five-year requested term with five-year renewal options. - Notable procurement detail: The notice is an intent to award without a standard competitive process and allows qualified vendors to document a comparable or equivalent source.

Description

Cache County School District is publishing a notice of intent to award a contract without engaging in a standard procurement process for textbooks through Mountain State Schoobook Depository. The notice seeks to determine whether other interested and qualified vendors can provide competing or equivalent procurement items and invites vendors to submit a documented contest. The stated justification is that there is only one source, based on the district’s account of Utah requirements for an in-state instructional materials depository. The request form lists an estimated contract value of $15,000,000 and a five-year term with five-year renewal options.

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