NIGP 97242: Participant Support Costs, Sponsored

NIGP 97242 Participant Support Costs, Sponsored is an Item code covering financial support and ancillary services that state and local governments purchase to enable student participation in academic enrichment, extracurricular, and social-emotional programming within K-12 school districts. The scope includes mentorship, leadership development, enrichment programming in arts and music, academic intervention across core subjects and STEM/STEAM, social-emotional wellness support, parent education, restorative justice and conflict resolution, college planning assistance, and work-based learning opportunities including job shadowing and internships. School districts are the primary issuing body under this code, purchasing these services to remove instructional, institutional, and cultural barriers for at-risk students and to support college, career, and community readiness.

Stockton Unified School District, the fifteenth largest public school district in California with over 34,000 students across 55 schools in San Joaquin County, posted RFP 26-27-02 on August 11, 2026 for academic, extracurricular, and emotional support services for students in need, with a response deadline of August 7, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. The District encourages proposals from Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE), Small Local Business Enterprises (SLBE), and Small Emerging Local Business Enterprises (SELBE), and requires vendors to demonstrate a minimum of three years' experience providing similar services in a K-12 school district environment. The initial contract term is one year with District options to renew for up to four additional one-year terms based on satisfactory performance and funding availability. Pricing must remain firm and fixed throughout the initial term and any renewals. Evaluation criteria weight experience and qualifications at 35 percent, services offered and approach at 25 percent, proposed budget and fees at 25 percent, and references at 15 percent.