Charleston County's contract with Durham is up at the end of this fiscal year, and the district has awarded the bid to First Student. Durham is not happy about it:
Two days later, Durham filed an official appeal to the district’s decision, claiming that the school district “inappropriately applied” the bid’s evaluation criteria.Yes, that means the district is willing to pay more money to First Student. Why?
First Student’s five-year pricing proposal was more than $4.5 million greater than Durham’s, according to the appeal. Durham was awarded 60 points for its pricing submission, but First Student was awarded 57.87 points.
“The arbitrary and inconsequential point differential does not adequately assess the cost savings of the bid presented by (Durham),” the appeal read.
Because the point is to get students to school on time.
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