For Districts

Let Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative help your district's procurement process by providing 39 categories of items to be bid that meet the requirements of the Texas Education Agency Audit Division and the Attorney General's Anti-Trust Office.

Please note that Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative strives to provide your district with a vast selection of vendors that have undergone a legal bid process. We cannot recommend a vendor of choice. It is at the discretion of the district to make purchasing recommendations.

For compliancy on EDGAR & TEC, visit the FAQ page: https://purchasing.esc7.net/pages/7

Membership:
Annual Fee: Membership fees are .50 per enrollment (capped at 20,000) plus a $400.00 administrative fee.
To join the Purchasing Cooperative, we require an InterLocal Agreement and Resolution. Please mail original documents to the cooperative.

Useful Information:
If you are currently a member district and would like to login to edit/modify/review your profile: Log In

• Sole Source Vendors - Removed
  

• Line-Item Award: Copy Paper 2018 - 2019 Award

• Single-Source Award: Food Service 2017 -2020 Award
  
  • FOOD1720 Excel Spreadsheet - Will be updated as needed
  • Commodity Processing Excel Spreadsheet - Click FOOD1720 Commodity Tab

• Single-Source Award: Substance Alcohol Abuse Testing 18 Award

• MOST CURRENT AWARD INFORMATION: BM1819 EXCEL
• Line-Item Award: Bread/Milk/Juice/Ice Cream BM1819 PDF Awards
  • Bread - Flowers
    • Flowers Documents
  • Milk & Juice - Borden Dairy
    • Borden Documents
  • Milk & Juice - Hiland Dairy
    •  Hiland Dairy Documents
  • Milk & Juice - Oak Farms Dairy
    • Oak Farms Documents
  • Ice Cream - Dippin Dots
    • Dippin' Dots Documents
  • Ice Cream - Stacy's
    • Stacy's Distributing Documents
  • Ice Cream - Yumi
    • Yumi Ice Cream Documents

• Line-Item Award: Classroom Calculators 2017 - 2019 Award Extended through July 31, 2019

• Useful Form: Best Value Documentation
                      ***ESC Staff must use form from the intranet.***

• Additional Resources:

  • Overly-Simplified Flowchart - This is an over-simplified example only.
  • EDGAR Compliance Opinion - November 2, 2018
  • TEA EDGAR Procurement Threshold Changes - Aug 28 2018
  • TEA Non-Competitive Information
  • Texas Education Code 44.031
  • EDGAR
  • Copy Paper Bid History
  • Substance & Alcohol Testing History
  • Food Services History
  • Newspaper/Advertisements
  • TEA ESC Noncompetitive Information

        **CONTACT ESC FOR PREVIOUS TABULATIONS**
02/23/2013 Bid Tabulations - Substance & Alcohol Abuse Testing
06/10/2014 Bid Tabulations - FOOD1415 Food Services 2014-2015
05/28/2015 Bid Tabulations - BM1516 Bread/Milk 2015-2016 - Milk

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Items available for bid

               None posted at this time.

Contact:
Martha Lakey, Purchasing Technician
903-988-6859
1909 N Longview St.
Kilgore, TX 75662

E-mail: purchasing@esc7.net
Department Fax: 903-988-6852