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Empower your female workforce through
this series of workshops that will help
them spend, budget and save wisely.

• Financial Success for
Women

• Women and Retirement

• The Importance of Life
Insurance for Women

Contact your Horace Mann representative or scan to get this workshop
series scheduled in your schools.

Horace Mann Service Corporation and certain of its affiliates (Horace Mann) enter into agreements with educational associations where Horace Mann pays the association to provide services aimed at
familiarizing association members with the Horace Mann brand, products or services. For more information, email your inquiry to association.relations@horacemann.com.
AM-C04699 (Oct. 22) horacemann.com

“What is the contract for?” “What items/services contract in the manner it was written. You’ve
am I trying to obtain?” “What does the market included the steps that should yield the best results
look like for these items/services?” “What kind of of this contract and any hiccups that occur should
risks are involved and what do they look like?” be noted ON PAPER and put in the procurement
“What needs to be considered for minimizing file for future consideration. Keeping good notes
risks?” “What’s the goal or what am I trying to as you monitor the performance of your contract
obtain from this contract?” is vital to help develop better contracts, so don’t
leave this step out.
Once you’ve established all the above, it’s time to
put pen to paper to select the contract type and Let me end by simply reminding you that nothing
develop the contract but realistically, you should in this article is meant to be construed as legal
have already considered the contract type, during advice but rather best practice recommendations,
the analysis stage. You may have considered the based on my experience as a buyer for Mesa Public
options, (IFB, RFP, RFQu, etc.) to decide what’s Schools!
best for your agency and for implementing the steps
outlined in the guideline of your analysis stage. Gary Barkman, Mesa Public Schools, can be reached at:
gabarkman@mpsaz.org
Now, the only thing left is monitoring the
performance of the contract and because you’ve
done all the above, you’re ready to monitor the

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