Texas — school districts
For Texas, state and entity type is Texas — school districts; entity type is school districts; spending category is goods and services, aggregated across each 12-month period, with produce and vehicle fuel excepted; a school bus purchase or lease must be bid at $20,000 or more; formal bid threshold (as stated in statute) is $100,000 or more in the aggregate for each 12-month period; threshold (normalised) is $100,000, recorded from its source on 2026-10-12.
- State and entity type
- Texas — school districts our reading
- State
- Texas our reading
- Entity type
- school districts our reading
- Spending category
- goods and services, aggregated across each 12-month period, with produce and vehicle fuel excepted; a school bus purchase or lease must be bid at $20,000 or more our reading
- Formal bid threshold (as stated in statute)
- $100,000 or more in the aggregate for each 12-month period verified
- Threshold (normalised)
- $100,000 our reading
- Informal quote tier
- none in chapter 44 — above $100,000 the district must use competitive bidding, competitive sealed proposals, a request for proposals, an interlocal contract, a Chapter 2269 method or a reverse auction, whichever gives the district best value; the chapter sets no informal-quotation band below that figure our reading
- Indexation
- none in Tex. Educ. Code ch. 44: § 44.031(a) states the amount itself, 'valued at $100,000 or more in the aggregate for each 12-month period', and what it leaves to the district is 'the method, of the following methods, that provides the best value for the district' — not the figure. No index, formula or delegated adjustment appears anywhere in chapter 44 as published. our reading
- Statutory citation
- Tex. Educ. Code § 44.031(a) our reading
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
Sec. 44.031. PURCHASING CONTRACTS. (a) Except as provided by this subchapter, all school district contracts for the purchase of goods and services, except contracts for the purchase of produce or vehicle fuel, valued at $100,000 or more in the aggregate for each 12-month period shall be made by the method, of the following methods, that provides the best value for the district: (1) competitive bidding for services other than construction services; (2) competitive sealed proposals for services other than construction services; (3) a request for proposals, for services other than construction services; (4) an interlocal contract; (5) a method provided by Chapter 2269, Government Code, for construction services; (6) the reverse auction procedure as defined by Section 2155.062(d), Government Code; or (7) the formation of a political subdivision corporation under Section 304.001, Local Government Code.
— tcss.legis.texas.gov, retrieved 2026-10-12
Where each value comes from
The value above is stated away from the sentence quoted with the answer, so the passage that states it is shown here too.
Spending category
(l) Each contract proposed to be made by a school district for the purchase or lease of one or more school buses, including a lease with an option to purchase, must be submitted to competitive bidding when the contract is valued at $20,000 or more.
— all from tcss.legis.texas.gov, retrieved 2026-10-12
Source
- tcss.legis.texas.govhttps://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/ED/htm/ED.44.htm