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Agricultural INNOVATION Farm Project for San Marcos Unified SD

Description: San Marcos Unified School District is soliciting sealed bids to create an agricultural farm for its Career and Technological Education program. The estimated project cost is $1,250,000, and the procurement portal provides plans, technical specifications, drawings, a site-plan rendering, and a soil report. Bids must be submitted through the district’s procurement portal by November 2, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. Pacific time.

Buyer: San Marcos Unified School District
SchoolDistrict · CA, US
Released: Oct 7, 2026
Closes: Nov 2, 2026(12 days left)

RFP documents & timeline

From the first pre-RFP signals to the published RFP and its files.

Board meeting
Apr 10, 2025
545 days before RFP
The Governing Board approved sole-source farm-space design, operational-management, and training services from the Ecology Center.
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10. CONSENT AGENDA Motion by Stacy N Carlson, second by Lena Meum to approve the consent agenda as presented. Final Resolution: Motion Carries Aye: Stacy N Carlson, Andres R Martin, Lena Meum, Heidi Herrick Preferential Student Board Member Vote: Aye by Corke and Moon Action (Consent): 10.1 APPROVED GIFTS TO THE DISTRICT Action (Consent): 10.2 APPROVED THE…
Governing Board Regular Meeting
Board meeting · Apr 10, 2025
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Board meeting
May 1, 2025
524 days before RFP
A district presenter reported a Golden State Pathways grant and a planned five-year expansion of SMUSD agriculture programs to a large-scale crop-production farm on District land.
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horizon, which is um we were uh one of the school districts that actually uh won the Golden State Pathways um grant. So, there was a a large grant that was offered in the state of California. Um we were one of the very fortunate school districts that earned um that grant. uh we were actually awarded the second highest amount in San Diego County. Um and so…
Governing Board of San Marcos Unified School District Special Meeting
Board meeting
Mar 12, 2026
209 days before RFP
SMUSD deferred most Golden State Pathways Farm Lab work to the following year after delayed CDE approval.
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2025 2026 second interm report and positive budget certification. Garcia This is the 2025 26 second interim financial report. We're in the home stretch of budget season. Um this is the fourth time we'll be seeing the budget for 2526. And the second interim report benefits from having seven months of actual financial data. It looks at actual data through…
Board meeting
Jun 18, 2026
111 days before RFP
SMUSD planned $1.8 million from the Golden State Pathways Grant to develop its agricultural farm.
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point out for our capital outlay what we're planning to spend there um for large capital outlay projects are all under our restricted funds. We have $1.8 million for Golden State from the Golden State Pathways Grant to um develop our AGA farm. We have $1 million in
San Marcos Unified School District Board of Education Regular Governing Board Meeting
Board meeting · Jun 18, 2026
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RFP published
Oct 7, 2026
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Key Contacts on this RFP

Decision makers connected to this RFP from San Marcos Unified School District.

Jessica SanchezAccountant

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Monica DaveyAssistant Director

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Erin GarciaAssistant Superintendent of Business Services

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Joel GarciaAssistant Superintendent of Human Resources

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