What the buyer needs
AI summaryThe government authority located in Houston, TX, seeks a vendor to provide classroom, laboratory, and vocational equipment and related supplies for a one-year contract period. Requested classroom and instructional materials include general supplies, specialty papers, writing instruments, art supplies, adhesives, storage products, teacher resources, decorations, educational games, manipulatives, flash cards, and graphic organizers. The buyer also requires science, laboratory, and research supplies, such as glassware, plasticware, instruments, microscopes, scientific calculators, measurement devices, scientific models, and physics, chemistry, and biology equipment. Only onshore US organizations are eligible to bid, and the vendor will perform the work offsite. The buyer will hold a pre-bid meeting on November 18, 2026, and requires all questions to be submitted no later than December 10, 2026. Applicants can submit their proposals digitally via email or online.
Scope of work
- General classroom supplies, construction paper, art paper, and specialty paper
- Writing instruments, markers, crayons, colored pencils, paints, brushes, and art supplies
- Adhesives, tapes, laminating supplies, and cutting tools
- Classroom organization, storage products, teacher resources, decorations, and bulletin board materials
- Educational games, manipulatives, flash cards, and graphic organizers
- General laboratory supplies, laboratory glassware, and laboratory plasticware
- Laboratory instruments, apparatus, microscopes, scientific calculators, and measurement devices
- Scientific models and physics, chemistry, and biology laboratory equipment
Minimum qualifications
- Onshore (US Organization Only)
- Must not be debarred, suspended, or listed in System for Award Management exclusions
- Compliance with Texas Education Code Chapter 22 criminal history record information requirements for service providers
- Compliance with Texas Education Code Section 11.005 regarding no diversity, equity, and inclusion duties
Documents to include with your response
- Execution of Offer
- IRS Form W-9
- Vendor Questionnaire
- Proposer Certification Forms
- Conflict of Interest Questionnaire (Form CIQ)
- Certificate of Interested Parties (Form 1295)
- Felony Conviction Notice Form
- Antitrust Certification Statement
- Service Provider Certification Forms
- Confidentiality Declaration Form
How to submit
- Method
- Electronic via HCDE eBid System (with mail or hand delivery of wet-signature originals)
- Instructions
- Upload electronically signed documents in the Response Attachments section in the HCDE eBid System. Wet-signature originals must be mailed or hand delivered within 5 business days of bid closing to Choice Partners, 6005 Westview Drive, Houston, TX 77055.
