Item Coversheet

Action Item - 27.

Title: Contract with Amazon.com Services, LLC. - Online Marketplace ($1,000,000) - Added 12.1.2022

Board of Education Meeting Date:
  12/15/2022

Action under consideration

 The Administration recommends that the Board of Education authorize The School District of Philadelphia, through the Superintendent or his designee, to execute and perform a contract, subject to funding, as follows: 

 With:
Amazon.com Services, LLC 

 Purpose: 
To access to various educational and operational related supplies from an online vendor

 Start date: 2/1/2023

 End date: 6/30/2024
 Compensation not to exceed: $1,000,000 
 Location: 
All Schools; Administrative Office(s)


 Renewal Options:  Yes

 Number of Options: 3

 Duration of each option to extend: Years: 1  Months:
 Maximum compensation authorized per option period:   $1,000,000

 Description:

The Office of Procurement Services has identified a need for an online marketplace to provide District schools and administrative offices with access to a wide variety of items and supplies related to educational and operational supports, across a number of local suppliers. Purchases made through the Amazon Business Marketplace will be facilitated and monitored by The Office of Procurement Services to enforce Board Procurement policies as it relates to competitive processes and providing business opportunities for small, diverse, local vendors within the Philadelphia region as appropriate. Additionally, the online marketplace will be managed and reviewed by The Office of Procurement Services on an ongoing basis, to monitor its effectiveness in regularly providing all District staff and students with any and all needed educational and operational related supplies. Utilization of these services supports all Board of Education Guardrails 1-4. 



 Funding Source(s): 
FY23-24 Various Schools & Offices

 Office Originating Request: Operations - Procurement