KEDC Bidding

What is KEDC?

The Kentucky Educational Development Corporation is an educational cooperative owned by its member school districts. The superintendent for each member district serves as the board of directors. Cooperatives offer various services to school districts such as Grants Support, Special Education, Professional Development, Adult Education and Technology Support. KEDC was established in 1965 and is the oldest & largest cooperative in the state. At the beginning of the 2000/2001 fiscal year KEDC had 67 board members.

What is KEDC Bidding?

KEDC establishes price contracts through the bidding process. KEDC operates under the Kentucky Model Procurement Code. We currently bid over 30 categories from Custodial Supplies, Copier Paper to Insurance.  KEDC allows Non-board member districts to participate in bidding through their cooperative. For the 2000/2001 fiscal year we have 80 school districts participating.

The bulk of the KEDC Bids are conducted in the spring and run April 1 through March 31st.  Insurance bids are conducted annually and run from July 1 through June 30^th.  Workers Comp insurance is also performed annually and run Jan1 through Dec 31^st.  Food Service Items are bid semi-annually running April 1 through Sept 30^th and Oct 1 through March 31^st.  As needs change and issues arise in the school districts, KEDC continues to develop new bids to fill the needs of member school districts.

What is the purpose of the Vendor Application?

KEDC Vendor Application will add your company information into our vendor database. Companies CANNOT be added to a bid list.  After vendors are in the database they will receive invitations when bids go out.  When the vendor responds to the bid invitation, and is awarded, then vendors will be included in the bid book that is published to districts annually.  The KEDC Vendor Application allows us to better service the vendors and is used to notify Vendors when Bids are being requested.  The Vendor Application gives us the pertinent information to maintain a database that generates information about which vendors want to be included on which bids.  Vendors can visit KEDC.org to download the Vendor Application.

What is the bid process?

A bid is developed and posted in the newspaper to solicit vendors.  Bid invitations are automatically mailed to vendors in the KEDC Vendor Database.  Bid opening dates and times are given and bids are received according to specifications in the bid and are not opened until the official Bid opening. Bid openings are open to the public.  The Bids are opened and it is announced and recorded. Bids are compared, tabulated, and summarized. KEDC recommendations are given to a bid committee that will review and award the bid to one or multiple vendors, depending on the type of bid.  All Vendors, which participate in this bid process, will receive copies of all tabulations from all vendors.  Vendors are then either notified that they were awarded or not awarded and given any other information the school districts are given such as order forms, etc.

If you have any questions or comments please email:
  KEDC Bidding Department

KEDC, 904 Rose Road Ashland, KY 41102-7104
Phone: (606) 928-0205  Fax: (606) 928-3785
For a map to KEDC click here.

For questions or comments regarding this site or KEDC please email: webmaster@kedc.coop.k12.ky.us