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RFP for Daily Home-to-School and Field Trip Transportation

for 4mativ Technologies in management of services for Five (5) Houston Charter Schools:

Etoile Academy

Houston Classical Charter School

Reve Preparatory Charter School

Yellowstone Schools

Bloom Academy

Notice to Offerors from

4mativ Technologies, Inc (“4mativ”), Transportation Manager

Request for Proposal (“RFP”) forms may be obtained by email from carl@4mativ.org on or after 1:00 PM, Central Standard Time (CST), Friday April 16th, 2021.  Proposals shall be submitted via email in MS Word or PDF form to carl@4mativ.org and shall include the subject line: “Response to 4mativ RFP for Five (5) Houston Charter Schools – [OFFEROR NAME]”

Proposals will be received at the above email address until 11:59 PM, May 7th, 2021.  Proposals received after 11:59 PM, May 7th, 2021 will be rejected.  Faxed or hard-copy mailed proposals will be rejected and not considered.

4mativ’s official contact for all correspondence, inquiries, and submissions related to this RFP is Carl Allen.  His email is carl@4mativ.org. ALL QUESTIONS ARE DUE BY 11:59 PM, April 26th, 2021.  Questions will be answered and all questions shared via email with all prospective offerors and any amendments will be issued no later than April 30^th, 2021.

Each Offeror is invited to submit a single technical proposal (containing all required forms outlined herein) & pricing sheet to 4mativ that addresses General Education School Bus service to one or more of The Schools.  Offerors may submit multiple proposals for yellow school bus service to one or more of The Schools, or to operate some subset of the system’s total routes, as paired/tiered routes or stand-alone.  Multiple pricing sheets may be submitted if pricing proposals are contingent on award of one or more of the services in combination.   4mativ desires – as much as is logistically possible — to serve the whole system of five (5) schools with paired routes that serve a first tier school followed by a second tier school each day, AM & PM.  Offerors are encouraged, however, to also propose how they might pair/tier any/some/all of these routes with routes they may run for other districts/schools in the Houston area in order to offer reduced pricing.

All proposal respondents will be responsible for the costs associated with the preparation of the requested proposals.  Neither The Schools nor 4mativ will be held liable for these costs. The Schools and 4mativ are the sole judges of the value and merit of the proposals and reserve the right to reject any or all proposals.

Under no circumstances shall 4mativ or The Schools be liable to any Offeror for any direct or indirect expenses, costs, or damages incurred by the Offeror in respect to its proposal or the rejection of the same for any reason.  All decisions made by 4mativ with the direct input of The Schools regarding the RFP process, including the final award(s), shall be made within their sole discretion and shall be final.  Successful offeror(s) will enter into a contract with 4mativ Technologies in its capacity as transportation manager for The Schools.

All proposals must be submitted with the enclosed offer form, signed felony conviction notice, conflict of interest questionnaire, and any other requested documents/information as set forth in this RFP. Any proposal submitted that is incomplete may be disqualified. Offers submitted on other than authorized forms or with different terms or provisions may be considered to be non-responsive.

RFP FOR VENDED MEAL SERVICES (BREAKFAST AND LUNCH)

Notice is hereby given that Étoile Academy Charter School, open enrollment charter schools intends to examine methods to provide meals to students for its Étoile Academy campus. No offer of intent to enter into a contract with any party for vended food service should be construed from this legal notice. The School will enter into a contract for services only if, in the sole opinion of the School, it is in the School’s best interest to do so.

All costs involved in submitting proposals to the School or alternatives to any current food service program shall be borne in full by the interested party and should be included in a total price for each meal.

A copy of the Request for Proposal can be obtained by contacting:
Kayleigh Colombero
6614 Hornwood Drive
Houston, TX 77074
713-265-8657
kcolombero@etoileacademy.org

The School reserves the right to accept any proposal or a part of any proposal that it deems most favorable to the interest of the School. The School further reserves the right to reject any or all proposals or any portion of any proposal submitted for any reason or no reason and/or that the School determines not to be in the best interest of the School. This Request for Proposal is issued pursuant to 2 C.F.R. 200.320(d).

Download the RFP form here.