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District staff recommend negotiating transportation contract with First Student after two bids
Summary
Millcreek Township SD staff recommended beginning contract negotiations with First Student after receiving two bids; STA’s proposal includes excess-hour charges that could add roughly $500,000 a year and First Student’s price would raise annual costs about $962,000 above current budget.
A district staff member recommended the Millcreek Township School District begin contract negotiations with First Student for student transportation after the district received two bids and found large differences in how firms price long routes.
The recommendation matters because the district’s transportation costs — including contractor rates, monitor hours and diesel — would increase the district’s budget by roughly $962,000 under First Student, the presenter said. An alternative bidder, STA, priced routes with an excess‑hours tariff for runs longer than five hours that the presenter estimated could add roughly $500,000 a year.
District staff said the district solicited bids after posting specifications tied to the strategic plan and received proposals from two companies: First Student (the incumbent) and STA. Christ Transportation attended the pre-bid meeting but did not submit a proposal. "We had 3 companies attend the pre bid meeting...…
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