{"id":2417,"date":"2025-12-19T20:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:48:07","slug":"bidding-and-cooperative-purchasing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/?p=2417","title":{"rendered":"Bidding and Cooperative Purchasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image003.png\"\/><br \/>\nBidding &#038; Cooperative Purchasing &#8211; Notification of Updated Bid Thresholds &#038; Cooperative Purchasing Webpages<br \/>\n As you may be aware, the Bid Threshold for Purchases, Services and Repairs will increase January 1st. The SBAS Bidding webpage<<a href=\"https:\/\/sbasweb.sbceo.org\/purchasing\/bidding\">sbasweb.sbceo.org\/purchasing\/bidding<\/a>> has been updated with the new bid threshold limits along with other useful information and links.<br \/>\nThe SBAS Cooperative Purchasing webpage<<a href=\"https:\/\/sbasweb.sbceo.org\/purchasing\/cooperative-purchasing\">sbasweb.sbceo.org\/purchasing\/cooperative-purchasing<\/a>> is available with information regarding &#8220;Piggyback&#8221; purchasing, standard school supply lists, cooperative purchasing, and many other helpful links.<br \/>\nPlease also find the email below and attachments forwarded from the California Department of Education.<br \/>\nIf you have any questions, please contact Alejandro Baeza at (805) 964-4710 x5372 or <a href=\"mailto:abaeza@sbceo.org\" >abaeza@sbceo.org<\/a><<a href=\"mailto:abaeza@sbceo.org\">mailto:<a href=\"mailto:abaeza@sbceo.org\" >abaeza@sbceo.org<\/a><\/a>>.<br \/>\nRegards,<br \/>\nSchool Business Advisory Services Team Santa Barbara County Education Office <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbceo.org\/sbas\">www.sbceo.org\/sbas<\/a><<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbceo.org\/sbas\">www.sbceo.org\/sbas<\/a>><br \/>\nNote: This message was sent on behalf of the School Business Advisory Services Team. Please do not respond to this message. Replies will be routed to an unmonitored mailbox. To unsubscribe, click here<<a href=\"mailto:sbasfinance@sbceo.org?subject=Unsubscribe\">mailto:<a href=\"mailto:sbasfinance@sbceo.org?subject=Unsubscribe\" >sbasfinance@sbceo.org?subject=Unsubscribe<\/a><\/a>><br \/>\n From: CDEfisc <a href=\"mailto:CDEfisc@cde.ca.gov\" >CDEfisc@cde.ca.gov<\/a><<a href=\"mailto:CDEfisc@cde.ca.gov\">mailto:<a href=\"mailto:CDEfisc@cde.ca.gov\" >CDEfisc@cde.ca.gov<\/a><\/a>> Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 9:57 AM Subject: 2025 Bid Threshold and Parental Liability Annual Adjustments<br \/>\nThe purpose of this email is to notify you that the California Department of Education (CDE) has posted the 2025 Bid Threshold and Parental Liability Annual Adjustment letters to the CDE Accounting Correspondence web page at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ca.gov\/fg\/ac\/co\/\">www.cde.ca.gov\/fg\/ac\/co\/<\/a>.<br \/>\nPlease forward this email to District Superintendents, District Chief Business Officials, and Charter School Administrators in your county. Hard copy letters will not be mailed.<br \/>\nIf you have any questions please contact the Financial Accountability &#038; Information Services Office by email at <a href=\"mailto:sacsinfo@cde.ca.gov\" >sacsinfo@cde.ca.gov<\/a><<a href=\"mailto:sacsinfo@cde.ca.gov\">mailto:<a href=\"mailto:sacsinfo@cde.ca.gov\" >sacsinfo@cde.ca.gov<\/a><\/a>>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\"><a href=\"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bid-Threshold-Letter-for-Jan-1-2026-Final.pdf\"><img src='https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/wp-content\/plugins\/postie\/\/icons\/silver\/pdf-32.png' alt='pdf icon' \/> Bid-Threshold-Letter-for-Jan-1-2026-Final.pdf<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Parent-Liability-Letter-for-Jan-1-2026-Final.pdf\"><img src='https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/wp-content\/plugins\/postie\/\/icons\/silver\/pdf-32.png' alt='pdf icon' \/> Parent-Liability-Letter-for-Jan-1-2026-Final.pdf<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/?attachment_id=2420\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image001-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"117px\" height=\"117px\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2420\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bidding &#038; Cooperative Purchasing &#8211; Notification of Updated Bid Thresholds&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/?p=2417\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bidding and Cooperative Purchasing<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-purchasing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/business.sbceo.org\/memos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}