Mackin Book Company

City-funded organization

Mackin Book Company, which operates today as Mackin Educational Resources, is a school and library book and digital-content distributor founded in 1983 by Randal and Kitty Heise (the page lists Randal M Heise as chairman/CEO), headquartered in Burnsville, Minnesota, supplying print books, eBooks, audiobooks and library-processing services to K-12 schools and libraries nationwide. In New York City it holds $11.6 million in active NYC Department of Education contracts as of August 2026 across 4 agreements, part of $30.3 million awarded by DOE since 2014 across 17 contracts (including expired ones). 41% of that contract value, $12.4 million across 9 contracts, mostly renewals of library-book and processing agreements (badged "Renewal, not re-bid" on the page), was awarded without a fresh competitive bid, while its largest original library-material and pre-bound-book contracts were won through competitive sealed bid.

Industry (per city contracts)
Goods
City contracts (active)
$11,594,384 · 4 contracts
Awarded all-time
$30,349,833 · 17 since 2014, incl. expired
Paid to date
$14,786,613
Won without a fresh bid
41% of contract value · $12,370,307 · 9 contracts
Chairman / CEO
Randal M Heise

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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