Contract Development for K-12 Schools

Purchasing contracts are the heart and soul of good purchasing. Whether created as part of a strategic sourcing initiative or out of the necessity to procure a single product, contracts serve as a means to create incentives for vendors to provide competitive pricing while protecting the interests of the issuing school district, college or university.

Developing good contracts can be a time-consuming task with important decisions at every turn:

• Catalog bid or a single product bid?
• Line-item award or a full-slate award?
• Total-cost evaluation or a straight price evaluation?
• Is product A equivalent to product B?

Epylon serves as a trusted resource to individual schools, colleges and cooperative buying groups during this extremely complex contract development process.

Using either Epylon's secure online bidding tool called eBid or the old-fashioned sealed-envelope approach, Epylon takes the fear and loathing out of bid development by:

• Assisting in the development of terms and conditions
• Preparing documents for legal counsel review
• Creating vendor response templates
• Leveraging state and piggy-backable contracts
• Configuring eBid tools and reverse auctions
• Tabulating and analyzing responses
• Creating and mailing of award letters and agreements
• Developing price lists and electronic catalogs of awarded products

For more information on how Epylon's contract development services can result in long-term best value pricing for your agency, please contact K12info@epylon.com.