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Note to Participants and Interested Parties concerning upcoming bid release:
Many of you have been contacting our office concerning the
expiration or pending expiration of many of the Alabama K-12 Joint Purchasing
Contracts. Please be aware that we are working on improving our current
bid document and requirements to meet the needs of the participating schools,
school systems and other eleemosynary entities that are qualified to purchase
from resulting contracts. Interested entities should know that the Alabama
Department of Education, as the assigned administrator of the program, does not
charge any participant or vendor to administer the program, unlike many other
similar State contracts around the nation. Our staff and time is are
limited and we are working to make sure we improve the process that helps our
participating schools to self-monitor their individual purchases through the
ALJP program contracts. This process and the related procedures are under
review and development and are to be included up front in each new bid release.
This may mean that a specific product line contract that has or will expire soon
may be included within the upcoming bid package but may not be awarded the day
after the current contract for that specific expired or will expire. It is
very important to us to provide contract(s) for needed IT products to our
schools for their convenience, however, it is very important to follow the
required bid process and improve the ALJP purchasing experience for them and the
awarded contract holders. We do not want to rush the process at the
expense of quality contracts and competition. This may mean that previous
product line contracts may be delayed, leaving a period of the specific product
not being available.
Please be patient with us in this matter and review the
contract listed below taking note of the End Date of the contract. Most
contracts under the ALJP2009 series will expire soon and they are our focus
along with several possible extendable contracts that will better serve the
applicants under the next set of procedures to be developed in the next bid
release.
We do plan on releasing a new bid series by June 1 and
expect to give interested bidders ample time to review the bid specifications
and provide quality responses that meet the requirements.
If you are a participating school and are looking to
purchase from these expired/expiring contracts please be aware that there may be
a period that a contract is unavailable, but we do expect to get a replacement
for that requested product line soon. Your LEA/School System level
Technology Coordinator should have completed an online form requesting the
product line you are hoping to purchase from. They have an online form to
complete that requires authentication. If they have questions concerning
access to that form, they should contact the ALJP administrator. Also,
keep a close watch on the ALJP website for more information.
If you are a contract holder currently holding an ALJP
product line contract that is set to expire as shown in the End Date field on
the ALJP website “Current Contracts”, then that product line is under evaluation
for re-bid or extension (if applicable). All ALJP2009 series product line
contracts are to be re-bid, and those vendors holding those contracts who wish
to participate in the competitive bidding process for new product line
contracts, will have to wait for the upcoming release.
Previous, current and unlisted product lines are under
consideration for the upcoming release. Vendors interested in being a
contract holder for specific products should know that these product lines are
requested by the participating School System Level Technology Directors.
Other participants such as Colleges/Universities and other eleemosynary
participants may email their product line requests to the ALJP administrator.
Companies or Resellers SHOULD NOT CONTACT THE ALJP
ADMINISTRATOR TO REQUEST A NEW PRODUCT LINE OR VERIFY THEIR CURRENT CONTRACTED
PRODUCT LINE WILL BE CONTINUED. YOU SHOULD CONTACT THE SYSTEM LEVEL
TECHNOLOGY COORDINATORS AND ASK THEM TO EXPRESS THEIR NEED THROUGH THE ONLINE
FORM SET FOR THAT PURPOSE. CALLS AND EMAILS FROM VENDORS REQUESTING THIS
INFORMATION TO THE ALJP ADMINISTRATOR DELAY NEW BID DEVELOPMENT AND ARE NOT
HELPFUL TO THE PROCESS.