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PGCPS purchasing director outlines procurement methods, timelines and FY trends
Summary
Purchasing Director Dinerica Johnson told the committee that RFPs typically take about a year, small procurements are under $50,000, and the district is working to convert more noncompetitive agreements into competitively bid contracts; staff showed year‑over‑year increases in formal bid awards.
Dinerica Johnson, the board’s purchasing director, briefed the operations, budget and fiscal affairs committee on Feb. 11 about procurement methods, timelines and spending trends as the district faces budget constraints.
Johnson described commonly used procurement methods — invitation for bids (IFB), requests for proposals (RFP), intergovernmental cooperative purchase agreements (ICPAs/piggybacks), professional services agreements (PSAs), emergency contracts and rare sole‑source procurements — and said many RFPs take roughly a year to complete. "Right now, we…
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