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School board approves emergency Chartwells contract to run meal service for 2025–26
Summary
The Oshkosh Area School District board approved an emergency, fixed-cost contract with Chartwells to operate school meal service for the current year after the district lost its food service director. The contract is temporary; the district will run an RFP in spring 2026.
The Oshkosh Area School District Board of Education voted to approve an emergency, fixed-cost contract with Chartwells to provide school meal services for the 2025–26 school year.
District staff told the board the district lost its food service director a week before school started and had no time to run a competitive procurement under Department of Public Instruction (DPI) rules. “Because it’s an emergency contract, there is no RFP bidding process. We just don’t have time for that,” said Mister Neehan, a district staff member presenting the contract to the board.
The contract is a fixed-cost arrangement mandated by DPI’s emergency procurement process, the district said; that format does not provide the…
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