Purchasing
The Cleburne Independent School District (Cleburne ISD) is pleased to announce the use of a new online bidding system, Ion Wave Technologies (IWT) through CTPA for the procurement of goods and services. All suppliers interested in doing business with Cleburne ISD must register with this new system to receive communications when bid events are issued relating to your goods and services. Registration is free and can be completed by clicking on Supplier Registration or by visiting:
Once registered, suppliers will be able to receive email notifications when a new bid event matching their commodities has been issued. Suppliers will also have the ability to log in to this system to view and respond to bid events issued by Cleburne ISD. Questions relating to new vendor registration should be directed support@ionwave.net.
Current bids/proposals can be found by visiting:
CTPA Current Bid Opportunities
Once you are on this page, you will see all proposals issued by CTPA districts. To locate proposals issued by Cleburne ISD, you can search for Cleburne ISD in the “Organization” field.
Cleburne ISD, as well as all other school districts in the State of Texas, is governed by the state competitive bid law, Texas Education Code (TEC) 44.031.
When CISD buys more than $50k of "like items" over the period of a fiscal year (July 1 - June 30), we are required to either bid (bid specs, formal advertisement, evaluation & award), or purchase through a purchasing cooperative. A purchasing cooperative typically goes through the same bid steps in a process to award bids/select vendors as a member of their cooperative.
In defining "like items", the TEC considers items like technology (computers, printers, peripherals, network items) athletic supplies (helmets, workout gear, equipment) to be a good example of the intent of "like items". Annually, CISD bids for athletic supplies, classroom/office supplies, custodial supplies, fuel supplier, property/liability insurance and copy paper.
CISD is currently a member of the following purchasing cooperatives:
- 1GPA
- Choice Partners/HCDE
- CTPA (Central Texas Purchasing Alliance)
- DIR
- E & I Cooperative Services
- EPIC 6 (Region 6)
- EPCNT (Educational Purchasing Cooperative of North Texas)
- Equalis Group
- ESC, Region 11 (Multi Regional Purchasing Coop)
- ESC, Region 19 (Allied States Cooperative)
- GoodBuy (Region 2)
- HGACBuy (Houston-Galveston Area Council)
- PACE (Purchasing Association of Cooperative Entities)
- Sourcewell
- Tarrant County
- TASB Buyboard
- TCPN (Omnia Partners)
- TexBuy (Region 16)
- TIPS (The Interlocal Purchasing System)
- TXMAS (Texas Multiple Award Schedule Program)
- U.S. Communities (Omnia Partners)
To become a vendor of one of these cooperatives, here are links to the respective coops:
- https://1gpa.org/
- https://www.choicepartners.org/
- https://www.txctpa.org
- https://dir.texas.gov
- https://www.eandi.org/
- https://equalisgroup.org
- https://www.esc6.net
- http://www.gcisd-k12.org/Page/626
- https://www.goodbuy.esc2.net
- http://www.mrpctexas.com/#!vendors
- http://www.alliedstatescooperative.com/
- https://www.hgacbuy.org/
- http://www.pace.esc20.net
- https://www.omniapartners.com
- https://www.buyboard.com/
- http://www.nationalipa.org/Pages/default.aspx
- https://www.sourcewell-mm.gov
- https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/en/purchasing.html
- https://texbuy.net
- https://www.tips-usa.com/
- https://www.comptroller.texas.gov/purchasing/
By joining one of these cooperatives, you will immediately become eligible to be a CISD vendor, and will not have to wait on the bid process, which typically begins in the spring of each year.
If you need any assistance, please contact the Business Department at 1118.