25528-RFP-DST_Substitiute_Teacher_Services_Notice_of_Intent_to_Award_post.pdf
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This is a Notice of Intent to Award document issued by Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS) in Florida for Request for Proposals 25528-RFP-DST regarding Substitute Teacher Services. The solicitation was conducted on behalf of HCPS and the GOVMVMT Purchasing Cooperative for a master agreement to provide substitute teacher services supporting elementary, middle, and high schools across various subjects and grade levels. Bid notifications were distributed to 4,044 vendors via VendorLink and 506 vendors via Euna Open Bids (DemandStar), with 17 vendors submitting proposals by the October 28, 2025 deadline. The evaluation committee, composed of 12 voting and advisory members including representatives from HCPS, Pasco County Schools, and external consultants, assessed proposals using a three-phase evaluation criteria weighted as follows: Specifications/Scope of Work (30 points), Qualifications and Experience/Required Forms and Signatures (30 points), and Cost/Value (40 points). Kelly Services was recommended for award with a total evaluation score of 96.28 points. The notice was posted on January 5, 2026, with a 30-day protest period following Florida Statutes 287.057(1)(a) and 120.57(3).
The evaluation determined that five bidders—EDUStaff LLC, Griffiths Prince & Associates Consulting, ND Global Consulting Services Inc., and StaffEZ LLC—could not fulfill national service requirements and were voted against for review, while Sunshine Enterprise USA LLC was deemed non-responsive for failure to submit required bid documents. Additional vendors indicated they did not wish to submit quotes or submitted draft bids without formal completion. Among the five responsive proposals evaluated, ESS Southeast LLC scored 78.44 points, LanceSoft Inc. scored 60.22 points, OP Consulting Group LLC scored 51.24 points, and Spur Jobs Inc. scored 71.56 points. The procurement process operated under HCPS policy 6320, which enforces a Cone of Silence prohibiting communications regarding the active solicitation between HCPS employees, School Board members, and third parties from release through award by the School Board.
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Superintendent of Schools Van Ayres
PROCUREMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT
NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD
Request for Proposals: 25528-RFP-DST Substitute Teacher Services
Date: January 5, 2026
As to the above-mentioned Invitation to Bid, pursuant to §§ 287.057(1)(a) and 120.57(3), Florida Statutes, Hillsborough County Public Schools (“HCPS”) posts its Notice of Intent to Award to the vendors identified in Attachment A. The awarded vendor(s) must meet all mutually agreed qualification requirements prior to the provision of the goods and services.
Failure to file a protest within the time prescribed in § 120.57(3), Florida Statutes, or failure to post the bond or other security required by law within the time allowed for filing a bond shall constitute a waiver of proceedings under Chapter 120, Florida Statutes. Any protest concerning HCPS’ decision must be timely received via courier, the General Manager of Procurement Services.
Protests may be filed by courier, hand delivery, or regular mail at: Hillsborough County Public Schools, Procurement Services Department, Office of the General Manager, 901 East Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa, Florida 33602. Protests may also be filed by email at corey.murphy@hcps.net. It is the filing party’s responsibility to meet all filing deadlines.
The Cone of Silence, HCPS policy 6320 – Procurement, prohibits any communication regarding an active competitive solicitation between any HCPS employee or School Board member and any third party, representative, or lobbyist of that party, in effect from the time of release of the competitive solicitation until awarded by The School Board of Hillsborough County, Florida.
Procurement Services appreciates all vendors’ interest in doing business with HCPS and encourage participation in future bidding opportunities. Any questions regarding the competitive solicitation process may be forwarded to the Procurement Services Department representative, below.
Sincerely, Erika James, Senior Procurement Officer erika.james@hcps.net Phone: (813) 272-4619
RFP #25528-RFP-DST Substitute Teacher Services Proposals Received
Bid notifications were sent to 4044 vendors via VendorLink and 506 via Euna Open Bids (DemandStar).
Responses were received from 17 vendors.
Company SLVMP Status Submission Date
**EDUStaff, LLC 4120 Brockton Drive Southeast, Suite 200 Grand Rapids, MI 49512 Sheila McGrath Phone: 877 9746338 Fax: 877 9746339 smcgrath@edustaff.org
Submitted 10/28/2025 12:45:34 PM
ESS Southeast, LLC 2160 Lakeside Centre Way, Suite 302 Knoxville, TN 37922 Katera Carolina Phone: 856 7029856 Fax:
kcarolina@ess.com
Submitted 10/28/2025 12:48:53 PM
**GRIFFITHS PRINCE & ASSOCIATES CONSULTING
10021 Water Works Lane, Riverview, FL 33578 Riverview, FL 33578 Dr. Marcia Griffiths, PhD Phone: 813 5075775 Fax: 888 3331606 dr.marcia@griffithsprince.com
SBE, Local Submitted 10/27/2025 10:07:17 PM
Kelly Services 999 West Big Beaver Road Troy, MI 48084 Al Teixeira Phone: 704 3059227 Fax:
al.teixeira@kellyservices.com
Submitted 10/27/2025 4:20:47 PM
Superintendent Van Ayres
LanceSoft, Inc.
13454 Sunrise Valley Drive Suite 120 Herndon VA 20 Herndon, VA 20171 Prashant Arni Phone: 7036744500 Fax: 038896500 Marketing@lancesoft.com
Submitted 10/28/2025 1:03:22 PM
**ND Global Consulting Services, Inc.
3721 South Stonebridge Drive #1101 McKinney, TX-75 McKinney, TX 75070 Naveen Kumar Poththuri Phone: 646 9216217 Fax: 718 4729392 fsled@ndgcs.com
Submitted 10/28/2025 1:00:37 PM
OP Consulting Group LLC 1749 Hamilton Road, Suite 207 Okemos, MI 48864 Venkata S Surapaneni Phone: 517 7311509 Fax:
GovBids@OPConsultingGroup.com
Submitted 10/28/2025 2:21:10 PM
Spur Jobs, Inc 1300 Clinton Street, Suite 201 Nashville, DE 37203 Glenn Clayton Phone: 256 6529606 Fax:
glenn@spurstaffing.com
Submitted 10/28/2025 1:43:43 PM
**StaffEZ, LLC 330 Mallory Station Road Suite F-19 Franklin, TN 37067 Evan Bledsoe Phone: 855 7478233 Fax: 866 2829009 hebledsoe@staffez.org
Submitted 10/28/2025 2:24:28 PM
*SUNSHINE ENTERPRISE USA LLC
782 Seneca Meadows Road Winter Springs, FL 32708 Sam Faragalla Phone: 407 3087989 Fax:
samf@seu-usa.com
Submitted 10/28/2025 2:49:12 PM
Adil Business Systems Inc 169 Ramapo, Valley Road, Suite ML 104 Oakland New Jers Oakland, NJ 07059 Aruna Ajjarapu Phone: 267 6971022 Fax:
Bids@adil.com
Draft 10/23/2025 11:25
AURA HOLDINGS LLC
1732 Broad Winged Hawk Drive Ruskin, FL 33570 Aura Bailey Phone: 757 3714015 Fax:
bailey.auraholdings@gmail.com
SBE, Local Draft 9/30/2025 16:59
Busybee Teachers 401 East Jackson Street Tampa, FL 33602 Rashida Hawthorne Phone: 813 4375950 Fax:
mybusybeeteachers@gmail.com
Draft 10/28/2025 14:59
EDU Healthcare, LLC 18820 Statesville Road Cornelius, NC 28031 Lynne Nicol Phone: 980 3750464 Fax: 980 2600074 rfp@eduhealthcare.com
Draft 9/30/2025 14:28
Vidhwan Inc. dba E-Solutions 2N. Market Street, #400, San Jose, CA 95113 San Jose,, CA 95113 vikas Soman Phone: 408 2394137 Fax:
procure@e-solutionsinc.com
Draft 10/28/2025 15:05
Amergis Healthcare Staffing, Inc.
7223 Lee Deforest Drive Columbia, MD 21046-3236 Emily Kochman Phone: 330 9787912 Fax:
emschmid@amergis.com
Do not wish to submit a quote
10/24/2025 2:46:14 PM
Zen Educate Inc.
2136 Ford Parkway Saint Paul, MN 55116 Aditya Abraham Phone: 778 8670112 Fax:
us.rfps@zeneducate.com
Do not wish to submit a quote
10/28/2025 11:53:37 AM
Evaluation Committee Members
Member Role
Last Name First Name Position Site Email
Voter Bunford Stephanie Purchasing Manager
Pasco County Schools sbunford@pasco.k12.fl.us
Voter Clark Williams
Nsia Department Manager, Services and Support
Personnel Services nasia.clarkwilliams@hcps.net
Voter Evseeva Olga Department Manager, Services and Support
Technology olga.evseeva@hcps.net
Voter Ragins Terranique Secretary 4 Franklin Middle Magnet terranique.ragins@hcps.net
Voter Waite Gloria Principal Foster Elementary gloria.waite@hcps.net
Advisor Horstman Craig General Manager
Personnel Services craig.horstman@hcps.net
Advisor Bazick Ken Manager, IT Business Solutions
Technology ken.bazick@hcps.net
Advisor McCall Tyler Consultant GovMVMT "Tyler McCall" <tmccall@govmvmt.org>
Advisor Datta-Reid Lipi Principal Woodson K-8 lipi.datta-reid@hcps.net
Facilitator Cason Tiffanie Senior Procurement Officer
Procurement tiffanie.cason@hcps.net
Facilitator James Erika Senior Procurement Officer
Procurement erika.james@hcps.net
Facilitator Perales Christy Procurement Officer
Procurement chirsty.perales@hcps.net
Facilitator Rivera- Anthony
Aidalisse Procurement Officer
Procurement Aidalisse.RiveraAnthony@hcps.net
Facilitator Viamontes Ivan Manager Procurement ivan.viamontes@hcps.net
Criteria Phase I
Specifications/Scope of Work Value 30
This section shall provide HCPS with information regarding the Proposer’s understanding of the required scope of work (tasks and service levels) and the vendor’s ability to provide deliverables within the required timeframe and (if applicable) submit an optimal timeline with milestone payment information for the completion of deliverables and provide optimal customer service.
Qualifications and Experience/Required Forms and All Signatures. Value 30
This section shall provide HCPS with information regarding the Proposer’s experience and qualifications in the related commodities and contractual services and their abilities.
Cost/Value Value 40
The price proposal shall be evaluated to determine the overall best value.
Phase I Evaluations
Criteria Specifications/Scope of Work
Qualifications and Experience/Required Forms and All Signatures.
Cost/Value Total
Weight 30 60 40 100
ESS Southeast, LLC 24.64 24.44 29.36 78.44
Kelly Services 28.78 28.86 38.64 96.28
LanceSoft, Inc. 18.64 17.6 23.98 60.22 OP Consulting Group LLC 16.32 15.9 19.02 51.24
Spur Jobs, Inc 21.08 20.06 30.42 71.56
**Voted 5 to 5 against reviewing bids that cannot fulfill the National portion.
EDUStaff, LLC
GRIFFITHS PRINCE & ASSOCIATES CONSULTING
ND Global Consulting Services, Inc.
StaffEZ, LLC
Notes:
* Non-responsive
Sunshine Enterprise USA LLC – Did not submit the required bid documents.
Recommendation for Award
Kelly Services
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