Bid Registrar Summary - Your Voices, Your Choices - Teacher Driven Projects

This is a Bid Registrar document from the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) for the Your Voices, Your Choices - Teacher Driven Projects contract (DOE27001-YV_YC). The contract involves procurement of professional services to manage a teacher-driven grant program focused on literacy-related classroom needs in Delaware schools with historically low English Language Arts proficiency. Proposals are due August 27, 2026 at 2:00 PM at the Townsend Building, with public bid opening to follow in accordance with Title 29, Chapter 6923(c). Questions regarding the opportunity are due August 7, 2026, with responses posted by August 13, 2026. The estimated award notification is September 2026. The contract term is one year with potential month-to-month extensions for up to three additional months. Two bids have been received from Donors Choose and Tapp Network as of the registrar date.

The selected vendor must design and operate a platform enabling teachers to submit project descriptions, route approvals through administrators, facilitate purchasing with competitive pricing from multiple vendors, manage resource shipment, and collect implementation data. Available grants reach up to $750 per teacher, with all administrative, platform, transaction, processing, shipping, fulfillment, and third-party costs to be fully disclosed in Appendix B with transparent pricing basis and sourcing information. The vendor must maintain Commercial General Liability insurance of at least $1,000,000 per occurrence/$3,000,000 aggregate and either Medical/Professional Liability, Errors and Omissions, or Product Liability coverage of $1,000,000 per occurrence/$3,000,000 aggregate. Evaluation criteria weighted equally or nearly equally include experience with charitable donation platforms (25%), capacity to meet scope and state customization requirements (30%), demonstrated ability providing similar services with references (20%), and resource costs with clearly outlined pricing (25%). No bid bond or performance bond is required, and the State will not pay proposal preparation costs.