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Board seeks clearer RFP vetting after legal-services procurement questions; outside consultant offers best practices
Summary
Trustees pressed the district’s procurement staff on the legal-services RFP process and asked staff to return with a formal vetting process and evaluation criteria after a third‑party procurement educator outlined safeguards and best practices.
Trustees asked district procurement staff to develop a clearer, documented process for vetting and selecting evaluation committee members for requests for proposals (RFPs) after questions about the recent legal-services solicitation.
The board invited Tammy Briscoe West, a public procurement educator and consultant, to answer questions. West, who teaches public procurement certification classes in New Mexico, told trustees that procurement officers should set evaluation criteria aligned with…
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