FCDL Comment:
DR1:Applicants are required to conduct a fair and open competitive bidding process, carefully consider all bids received and select the most cost-effective service offering using price of the eligible goods and services as the primary factor. During the review, it was determined that the applicant failed to properly solicit and consider all bids when referencing a State Master Contract. The referenced State Master Contract was awarded to numerous vendors who could provide those services, whom should have been solicited for bids and then evaluated based on price as SLD rules require. Therefore, this FRN is denied for failure to properly solicit bids and failure to properly perform a mini-bid evaluation from the bidders under a State Master Contract and consider all vendors who could offer the service requested.||MR1:The funding request amount was reduced from $684,960.00 to $677,917.32 to remove the amount that exceeded the Category Two budget set for the following entity: 226-MILTON BRADLEY ELEM; 17008642-Early Childhood Education Center.