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Evaluation Committee Rules of Conduct
Year Created: 2025
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POL - Briefing - How to do Business with Cobb County School District
- ENTITY TYPE: K-12
- TYPE OF DOCUMENT: POL - Policies/Procedures
The document is a presentation titled "How to Do Business with CCSD" presented by Cobb County School District Procurement Services Division. The presentation provides information about the Cobb County School District (CCSD), its vision, purchasing regulations, and procurement services.
CCSD is the 2nd largest school system in Georgia with an enrollment of 107,274 students and 113 total schools. It is also the largest employer in Cobb County with 14,840 employees. The district has 971 business partners in education.
The vision of CCSD's procurement services is to obtain fair and reasonable prices for goods and services, secure and deliver support materials in an orderly and timely fashion, and guarantee premium services to the school system.
The presentation explains the purchasing regulations and the commitment of procurement services to comply with CCSD Board Policy. The regulations can be found on the Procurement Services Website.
The procurement services division consists of purchasing, warehouse, print/copy center, and records center. The purchasing department handles various methods of making a purchase including purchase orders, performance contracts, check requests, procurement cards, and local purchase orders.
The presentation also provides information on how to find out what is currently on bid, which can be accessed through the Procurement Services Intranet Website.
For administrators, the presentation covers competition thresholds set by CCSD for different purchasing limits. It also explains the reasons for conducting competitive solicitations, which include acceptable quality at the lowest price, maximization of competition, equal and fair competition, and legal/regulatory compliance.
For board members, the presentation emphasizes the importance of procurement services in ensuring acceptable quality at the lowest price, transparency in the use of public funds, protection against conflict of interest, maximizing competition, pursuing equal and fair competition, and ensuring legal/regulatory compliance.
The presentation also provides information about the services offered by the warehouse, print/copy center, and records center. The warehouse provides daily mail service, delivery of payroll and testing materials, maintenance and delivery of warehoused goods and supplies, and pickup and disposal of surplus items. The print/copy center offers free black and white quick copy service to schools and departments. The records center coordinates the pick-up and delivery of records, processes requests for transcripts and other records, assists schools with records management, and coordinates destruction requests based on state records retention schedules.