The 2026-27 ELO-P Vendor Selection Guide
A free 5-page field guide for California ELO-P coordinators: the 12 questions to ask every vendor before you sign.
California ELO-P coordinators choose enrichment vendors with limited state guidance on which ones to trust. The wrong vendor spends your budget on supervision and leaves gaps in the 9-hour day. The right one turns ELO-P dollars into real enrichment, covers your 30 non-school days, and leaves a clean paper trail for audit.
This guide is written from the coordinator’s seat, not the vendor pitch seat. It is free to download.
What’s inside the guide
- The 12 questions to ask every ELO-P vendor before you sign, grouped into compliance, financial and programming questions, with what a strong answer sounds like.
- What ELO-P requires of every program: the 9-hour day, the 30 non-school days, the 10:1 TK/K and 20:1 grades 1-6 ratios, and the January 2027 AB 2107 priority for unduplicated pupils.
- A 90-day vendor selection timeline, from scoping to contract and kickoff, with a sample scoring rubric.
- The 5 most common selection mistakes and how to avoid them.
Get the PDF
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Download the ELO-P Vendor Selection Guide (PDF)
Who should download this
- District ELO-P coordinators planning vendors for the rest of 2026-27 or for 2027-28.
- Expanded learning directors whose current vendor contracts are up for renewal.
- Superintendents’ offices and business services teams reviewing ELO-P procurement.
- Board members asked to approve an ELO-P vendor contract who want the right questions.
Related reading
- The Prop 28 Compliance Checklist for California Superintendents (2026-27)
- How to braid ELO-P and Prop 28 for arts enrichment
- After-School Program RFP: What to Include and What to Watch Out For
Want a second read on your ELO-P plan?
If you want a second read on your district’s vendor plan, book a free 20-minute call. We will walk through the 12 questions against your sites and share how we would answer them if we were bidding, whether or not we ever work together.
Published by The Kodely Blog. Kodely runs hands-on K-8 enrichment across STEM, arts, entrepreneurship, sports and SEL for public school districts and private schools, in afterschool and summer settings. NYC SBS-certified M/WBE. Learn more at kodely.io.