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Facilities committee recommends Corbett furniture bid; district staff fine-tuning orders
Summary
The Facilities Committee heard a recommendation to award classroom furniture to Corbett, with staff and teachers reviewing line items and a target ordering deadline in May to meet a roughly 12-week lead time. The furniture cost will be paid from the project's soft-cost budget.
The Shippensburg Area School District Facilities Committee reviewed a furniture quote for the high school and middle school and heard staff say Corbett is the recommended vendor while some line items are being adjusted to match teacher preferences.
Dawn, district staff, told the committee that three quotes were presented and Corbett is the recommended bidder. She said staff and teachers have reviewed the quote and are making minor substitutions — for example, replacing chairs with casters and pneumatic lifts with plain chairs at the teachers' request — which will reduce cost in some places and add items in others for the middle-school music rooms.
Dawn said the district aims to place the order by May because lead times are about 12 weeks. She confirmed that furniture costs are part of the project's soft costs: "we have over a million dollars budgeted in soft costs and 200,000 for technology," as stated in the meeting record. Dawn said additional items for the intermediate school and for rooms at Nancy Grayson and James Byrd have been folded into the bid to save on installation and delivery charges.
The committee discussed whether furniture is part of construction cost or a separate item; staff reiterated that furniture is funded from the project's soft-cost allocation. The recommendation to award to Corbett was presented to the committee; the transcript does not record a formal approval vote during this meeting.
Background: staff said the recommended order combines items across several schools to lower delivery and installation costs and that final line-item changes are ongoing to match teacher needs and district specifications.
