Performance and/or Design Requirements:

The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (FSDB) intends to acquire licensing to utilize Benchmark Education’s proprietary School Wide HTML5 Interactive eBook Library. Estimated Dollar Amount: $3,495.00. Intended source:

Benchmark Education

145 Huguenot Street

New Rochelle, NY 10801

877-236-2465

Justification for single source acquisition:

Benchmark Education Company is the sole source of all of the products and programs offered in Benchmark Education sales literature and 2017 catalog. Benchmark Education Company is also the original creator of all materials and holds all copyrights, other than the fiction titles offered in the Reading Explorers programs and the Classroom Connections Skill Bags. Benchmark Education Company is also the sole source provider ofBEC Professional Development services, as described in the sales literature. Benchmark Education and its sales representatives are the exclusive source for all products.

Approved by: John Mark Leach

Primary Contact: Susan Bright, Director of Purchasing, or Chuck Meyers, Contract Administrator

207 N. San Marco Avenue

St. Augustine, FL 32084

Phone: 904-827-2294 ~ Fax: 904-827-2357

Please submit all questions and challenges by e-mail to: brights@fsdb.k12.fl.us, or meyersc@fsdb.k12.fl.us.

This notice is neither a request for quote nor a solicitation of offers. This is the statutorily mandated seven business day advertisement of an intended single source procurement. The Agency believes this is a single source procurement; however, vendors that feel they can fulfill this procurement should provide information regarding their ability to supply the commodities or contractual services described within the seven business day advertising period by contacting the listed Primary Contact. A determination by the Agency not to complete this procurement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Agency. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Failure to file a protest within the time prescribed in §120.57(3), Florida Statutes, or failure to file a bond or other security within the time allowed for filing a bond, shall constitute a waiver of proceedings under Chapter 120, Florida Statutes.

Questions submitted to FSDB shall not constitute formal protest. Prospective vendors are requested to provide information regarding their ability to supply the commodities or contractual services described. If it is determined in writing by the agency, after reviewing any information received from prospective vendors, that the commodities or contractual services are available only from a single source, the agency shall provide notice of its intended decision to enter a single-source purchase contract in the manner specified in §120.57(3), FS.

 

 
Please direct all questions to:
Charles Meyers
Phone: (904) 827-2294
FAX: (904) 827-2357
 
207 N. San Marco Ave
St. Augustine FL, 32084–3208
 
Email: meyersc@fsdb.k12.fl.us
 
Any person with a disability requiring special accommodations at the pre-solicitation conference and/or bid/proposal opening shall contact purchasing at the phone number above at least five (5) working days prior to the event. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact this office by using the Florida Relay Services which can be reached at 1 (800) 955-8771 (TDD).
 
The Department reserves the right to reject any and all bids or accept minor irregularities in the best interest of the State of Florida.
 
Certified Business Enterprises are encouraged to participate in the solicitation process.
 

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