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District reviews food-service vendor bids including Prairie Farms milk and Pepsi beverage contract
Summary
Board received a report on the district's vendor bids for milk, bread, pizza and beverages; Prairie Farms was selected for milk under a multi-year contract and Pepsi was named beverage vendor. District estimated annual food-service program cost at about $850,000.
Board members heard a report on food-service vendor bids for the upcoming year, including milk, bread, pizza and beverage contracts and the district’s cooperative bidding approach.
Bill, a board member, told the board the district’s milk bid was awarded to Prairie Farms Dairy for 2025–26; he described that award as the second year of a three-year contract and said the district’s cost is “about $130,000 a year.” He said bread purchases under the vendor rotation total about $15,000 for the year and that pizza service is rotated among Papa John’s, Little Caesars and Pizza Hut; he noted the district did not receive a bid from “Patty Joe’s.”
Bill said Pepsi will be the food-service beverage vendor under the fifth year of a multi-year contract. He also described the district’s participation in a regional purchasing cooperative to obtain favorable bids for food and supplies. The district’s estimated cost to operate the food-service program next year was stated as $850,000; he said some contracts are multiyear while federal funding rules require annual approvals for some procurement actions.
The transcript records the report and vendor names but does not show a separate roll-call vote or motion approving these specific vendor awards within the recorded excerpt. The speaker indicated the district solicits bids annually and rotates vendors for some categories.
