Kansas School Food Purchasing Association

The Kansas School Food Purchasing Association (KSFPA) is a food purchasing Co-op founded in 2007. The buying group currently represents 8 Kansas schools serving over 15,000 student meals each day. The yearly KSFPA bid totals more than 3.5 million dollars annually. 

KSFPA publishes a bid annually each spring for the upcoming school year. The KSFPA bid is a line item bid. The bid will be awarded to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder or bid/ offer most advantageous to the program with price being the primary factor on each line. Price is the primary factor for the bid award.

KSFPA will award the bid to the 2 vendors with the highest dollar percentage of the bid. (Cases nor number of lines bid will be relevant) All other vendors will be eliminated from the bid for the current bid year. Line items that were won by a vendor that is eliminated, will be reassigned to the lowest bid from the 2 vendors that won the bid.

All bidders must comply with K.S.A.44-1030 regarding Equal Opportunity Employment. Bids and bid processes will comply with all Kansas bid laws. Contracts resulting from a bid that is found to be contrary to law may be revoked.