Question: You are the food service director of a Texas school district. You are considering how to procure milk for your schools over the next five years. The law requires you to take sealed bids from potential suppliers of milk.
a. Should you take bids from milk suppliers and award the business each year? Or, should you take bids for just one order for the full five-year period?
b. Should you make public the bids from the various potential suppliers?