7 Miss. Code. R. 3-81.1
When advertising and receiving bids for school buses, bus bodies, other school transportation equipment, sale of unneeded school transportation equipment, driver education and training equipment and visual and training aids and devices, the State Board of Education does hereby designate the Director of the Bureau of Administration and Finance, the Director of Pupil Transportation, Office of Safe and Orderly Schools, and a representative from the State Attorney General's Office (appointed by the State Attorney General) as its official agents to receive bids, to tabulate the bids in an open meeting as advertised by law and a recording secretary shall be in attendance to record the bid quotes. They shall file with the State Board of Education a full written report of their actions at the next regularly scheduled Board meeting.
7 Miss. Code. R. 3-81.1