School Specialty Inc
City-funded organization
School Specialty Inc is a national Pre-K-12 classroom-supplies, furniture, and curriculum distributor; it holds an active NYC Department of Education requirements contract for classroom and art supplies currently valued at $159.8 million, part of nearly $500 million paid to date since 2011.
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Goods
- City contracts (active)
- $159,776,382 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $262,318,435 · 235 since 1998, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $500,974,202
- Won without a fresh bid
- 73% of contract value · $192,135,880 · 17 contracts
- Chairman / CEO
- Michael Buenzow
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
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).
- Classroom supplies Department of Education · MA104020229277206 $159,776,382
- Classroom and Art Supplies Department of Education · MA104020119174196 · ended 2016 $43,309,334
- CLASSROOM SUPPLIIES Department of Education · MA104020179771842 · ended 2020 $15,366,207
- Assignment of Delta Department of Education · MA104020239377220 · ended 2024 $7,475,033
- Classroom supplies Department of Education · MA104020229276532 · ended 2021 $7,328,498
- 56177 Department of Education · MA104020259574805 · ended 2025 $4,703,334
- Classroom furniture Department of Education · MA104020189874342 · ended 2019 $4,421,104
- To purchase Textbooks and Ancillary Materials Department of Education · MA104020209078200 · ended 2020 $2,308,069
- PURCHASE OF CLASSROOM FURNITURE Department of Education · MA104020139374631 · ended 2018 $2,112,543
- Classroom Furniture Department of Education · MA104020229276590 · ended 2024 $2,102,020