Bedford, Freeman & Worth Pub.

City-funded organization

Bedford, Freeman & Worth Pub. is the Checkbook-registry name for BFW Publishing Group, a privately owned educational publisher (comprising Bedford/St. Martin's, W.H. Freeman, and Worth Publishers) that produces textbooks and digital course materials for English, math, science, and social studies. Its one active NYC Department of Education contract, "Educational digital and software programs" ($4.1 million), was awarded through DOE's "DOE pre-approved listing" process, tagged non-competitive on the page. Across 21 registered DOE contracts since 2001 (including expired ones), the city has awarded the company $8.5 million all-time and paid it $20 million to date; 89% of the contract value awarded to it ($7.5 million across 2 contracts) went out without a fresh competitive bid.

Industry (per city contracts)
Goods
City contracts (active)
$4,134,431 · 1 contract
Awarded all-time
$8,455,431 · 21 since 2001, incl. expired
Paid to date
$20,123,741
Won without a fresh bid
89% of contract value · $7,536,431 · 2 contracts

Holds contracts at

City contracts

Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).

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