Notice of Intent to Award Without Engaging in a Standard Procurement Process - Online & Written Educational, Clinical, and Special Needs Assessments

Project Description: Issuing and Conducting Procurement Unit: Granite School District
In accordance with Utah Code Part 63G-6a Part 8 and Utah Administrative Code R33-108, this is a notice of intent to award without engaging in a standard procurement process. It is not a request for quotes, bids or proposals. DO NOT submit questions, bids, no-bids or other information in this system.
NO ACTION IS REQUIRED IF YOU AGREE WITH THIS NOTICE.
If there are any other qualified vendors that meet the specifications of this notice, any such vendor must submit the following information via email only to Adar Livni at alivni@graniteschools.org prior to the event close date.
The name of the contesting vendor and contact person; and a detailed explanation of the challenge, including documentation showing that there are other competing sources for the procurement item.
In addition, a vendor must include: Documentation that the vendor can provide a comparable or better procurement item that meets or exceeds the specifications; documentation that the vendor can also provide the same proprietary procurement item or an equivalent procurement item; and if transitional costs are identified as the justification for this notice, submit a cost comparison of the identified transitional costs with the vendor's anticipated transitional costs.
NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD WITHOUT ENGAGING IN A STANDARD PROCUREMENT PROCESS
The Utah Procurement Code provides that a purchase may be made without engaging in a standard procurement process if it can be determined in writing that: there is only one source for the procurement item;
transitional costs are a significant consideration in selecting a procurement item; or
the award of a contract is under circumstances, described in rules adopted by the applicable rule making authority, that make awarding the contract through a standard procurement process impractical and not in the best interest of the procurement unit.
Granite School District Purchasing Department has received a request to make the following award without engaging in a standard procurement process:
Requesting School/Department: Curriculum and Instruction/Preschool
Product and/or service to be purchased: Online and written educational, clinical, and special needs assessments
Earliest date purchase may occur: 06/04/2025
Proposed Supplier: Riverside Assessments LLC DBA Riverside Insights (formerly a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Justification:
There is only one source for the procurement item.
R33-108-101a(2(a)): a procurement item for which there is no comparable product or service, such as a one-of-a-kind item available from only one vendor
Riverside Insights is the publisher and creator of the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT), Battelle Developmental Inventory (BDI), Woodcock Johnson and Woodcock Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJIII, WDRB) online and written educational, clinical, and special needs student assessments. These products are technically superior instruments for screening students for Advance Learning Centers, Cognitive, Achievement and Oral Language. The assessments offer three test batteries in verbal, quantitative, and non-verbal which provides flexibility of giving only sections of the test for different subgroups K-1 and 3-8. This testing is the nationally normed test and is hence very useful in comparing a student's test performance to other students of the same age. CogAT is highly recommended by the National Association for Gifted Children. These assessments are the only instruments that have up-to-date national comparisons of ability norms.
Length of notice: Granite School District intends to purchase these products for the next five years, thus this notification will be considered official notification for the subsequent five years through 07/30/2030
Anticipated expenditure: Approximately $60,000 per year