Impact · School District
How a school district found over 300 qualified local contractors, and re-roofed its schools before fall semester
- 12,000+ Students
- $100M+ Budget
- 2% Enrollment Decline
Challenge
A public high school district serving roughly 12,000 students was under real budget pressure from declining enrollment and changing state law. Then came a deadline: the district needed to re-roof its schools over a single summer, keeping costs competitive while guaranteeing the work wouldn't spill into the school year. Its existing eProcurement system kept surfacing the same incumbent vendors, with no way to tune results by location or capability.
Solution
Hazel deployed in under an hour. The district drafted its roofing solicitation in minutes, and Hazel expanded the vendor search far beyond the incumbent list: enriching its supplier data with state contractor registry and transportation department records, automatically classifying suppliers by industry code, and matching local roofing contractors on a map, complete with phone and email contacts.
Results
The district generated a competitive, compliant solicitation in a fraction of the usual time and received a targeted list of over 300 local roofing contractors with direct contact information, enough to run a genuinely competitive bid process. Every roofing project was awarded and completed before the start of fall semester, with zero disruption to school operations, and the time saved went back into closing out other fiscal-year priorities.