Food Service Supplemental Staffing

2026-11-03

SCOPE OF SERVICES The Norristown Area School District is located west of Philadelphia in Montgomery County . The District has approximately 7 , 700 students . There are approximately eighty - five food service employees . The District operates Twelve school buildings and an administration building and a warehouse . The schools consist of seven elementary schools , three middle schools and one high school . CONTRACT The Norristown Area School District is seeking proposals to provide Food Service ’ s staffing as needed . All current Food Service staff will remain as district employees ; this RFP is for contracted staff and substitutes . All currently contracted employees will be given the choice to be hired by the district upon completion of the district hiring processes or remain contracted and will be hired by the awarded vendor . After contracted employees have completed 180 days of work the district reserves the right to hire contracted employees as NASD employees upon satisfactory completion of the district hiring process . The timeline for this contract is for a One ( 1 ) year term with optional renewals for an additional four ( 4 ) years . The first year contract value is estimated at $ 250 , 000 . Either party may terminate the contract by giving no less than ninety ( 90 ) days prior written notice to the non - terminating party . The District will accept the proposal or proposals that best serve the District ’ s interests and not necessarily the lowest proposal . This RFP contains certain projections and estimates with respect to the scope of work , but is subject to change and cannot be warranted or represented to be accurate or complete . Estimates in value and scope of work is for informational purposes only and in no way guarantees the number of positions or the value of the contract . DESCRIPTION , LOCATION AND PRICING OF SERVICES The Contractor will assign its employees to the District to provide services at the location ( s ) and for the pricing set forth in the specifications . The District will be permitted to use the Contract in connection with its business operations , responses to “ Right to Know ” requests and other uses as required by law . The pricing structure will be based on the hourly rates paid by the Contractor to its employees adjusted for Contractors overhead as indicated in the pricing structure . CONTRACTOR ’ S RESPONSIBILITIES 1 . Hiring and Training a ) The Contractor , as an independent contractor , will agree to hire , train , and assign employees to the District to provide the services requested in this proposal . b ) The Contractor will conduct any additional screening requested by the District and mutually agreed upon by the Contractor and the District and as required by law . c ) The Contractor agrees not to furnish the District with any personnel whom the District would deem ineligible if the District were directly employing such personnel in the same type of position . A job description is included in this RFP . Contractor employees would be expected to meet and exceed the requirements laid out in the job description as well as any additional duties as deemed necessary by the Food Services Director . d ) All of the services required under the contract shall be performed by Contractor employees . e ) Employees of the Contractor will not be employees of the District . f ) Employees of the Contractor must be W - 2 employees and not 1099 employees . g ) The Contractor will provide orientation and training to employees assigned to the Norristown Area School District including but not limited to the District ’ s policies and procedures , emergency procedures , dress code , hours , duty requirements , and other expectations of employees as set forth by the District and as required by law . h ) The Contractor agrees to utilize its best efforts to assign , to the extent possible , its employees based upon area of expertise and the District ’ s preferences . i ) Any issues regarding the performance of the contractor ’ s employees will be addressed by the district and contractor . At the district ’ s request , the contractor will remove any of its employees assigned to the district immediately and replace the employee as soon as possible . The district will not be charged for any days in the interim where services are interrupted . j ) At the District ’ s request , the Contractor will agree to remove any of its employees assigned to the District ; provided that the Contract will in no way affect the right of the Contractor , in its sole discretion as employer , to hire , assign , reassign , discipline and / or terminate its own employees . k ) Contractor will identify one contact employee for the district and contracted employees . l ) The contract resulting from the award of the RFP will include language to allow the district to hire qualified employees . m ) The contractor must have an onsite clock - in option . Cell phone only clock in is not acceptable .

Pennsylvania

2026-05-09