Generally
No vendor, agent, or sales
representative may enter the Montgomery County Public Schools to advertise or
sell goods or services to employees or students except as unless otherwise
provided herein. Any person/persons
found soliciting goods or services to students and employees in the public
schools or on School Board property during school hours without authorization may be subject to legal
action.
Vendors
arewill not be permitted
to make appointments with individual Montgomery County School Board employees
without the permission of the principal and/or the division superintendent or
his/her designee. No vendor will beis permitted to sell, arrange
demonstrations of products or services, or take orders for goods or services to be used for
a trial period, or take orders to be billed to the school or school division without
prior authorization from the principal
or division superintendent or his/her designee.
This does not prevent authorized representatives of firms regularly supplying goods and services to the school division from having access to the schools in the course of their routine business duties.
The sale of items to students during the school day, other than food in the cafeteria, shall be limited to those items and times approved by the division superintendent or his/her designee. The proceeds from any such sales shall be used for school-related activities.
Vending Machines
Vending machines dispensing food, beverages, or personal necessities for student consumption and use are permitted in the schools subject to state and federal school food service regulations and to approval by the division superintendent or his/her designee.
Sales After School Hours
The division superintendent or his/her designee may permit school-sponsored organizations to sell food items and materials after school hours.
School-related organizations may sell food and other items to spectators at athletic events under regulations of the division superintendent or his/her designee (see School Board Policy 3-3.9). The proceeds from such sales shall be for the benefit of school-related or student activities.
Prohibition on Solicitation or Acceptance
of Gifts
No
employee with responsibility for a procurement transaction may request, accept,
or agree to accept from a bidder, offeror, contractor or subcontractor anything
of more than minimal value unless consideration of substantially equal or
greater value is exchanged. The School
Board may recover the value of anything conveyed in violation of this Policy,
as authorized by applicable law.
Disclosure of Subsequent Employment
No
employee or former employee with official responsibility for procurement
transactions may accept employment with any bidder, offeror or contractor with
whom the employee or former employee dealt in an official capacity concerning
procurement transactions for a period of one year from the end of employment by
the School Board unless the employee or former employee provides written
notification to the School Board prior to commencement of employment by that
bidder, offeror or contractor.
LEGAL REFERENCE: Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, §§ 22.1-78, 22.1-293(B, D), 2.2-4367 through 2.2-4377.
Adopted: April 2004
Revised: September 2006