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School district cites procurement review for photography services, reports lower prices for families

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Summary

After an RFP process for school photography, district staff said senior portrait prices fell about 22% on average and underclass portrait packages fell about 44%; board approved business and financial items that included the contract change.

District business staff told the Board of Education that a request-for-proposals process for school photography narrowed roughly five respondents to a final vendor and produced lower prices for families.

Ira Silkler summarized the procurement and said teams from the high school and business office conducted interviews and unbundled services to clarify what families purchase. "Overall, lower the price . . . it turned out that in a lot of cases, there were these free . . . services, which . . . are not free because they're passed along in higher prices to the…

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