Full Line Food Distribution for Southern New England and Surrounding Areas

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support Subsistence Directorate intends to solicit for Prime Vendor support for the customers in the Southern New England including Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Southern New England Navy Ships which includes major customers such as Newport, Natick, Hanscom, NOAA, and Southern New England USCG and Navy ships. Requirements include various quantities of Subsistence items from the 8900 Federal Catalog or their commercial equivalents. The estimated dollar value of this procurement is $39,579,000. The maximum dollar value of this procurement is $49,473,750. The Period of Performance is for a term of 48 months, with two separate pricing tiers. The first tier shall be for a 24- month period (inclusive of up to a 120 day implementation period). The second and final tier will be an additional 24-month performance period directly following the first tier. The resultant award will be a Fixed-Price contract subject to Economic Price Adjustment (EPA). The items will be delivered approximately one-hundred and twenty (120) days after the date of award. The acquisition will be Full and Open Competition "unrestricted". Customers will be provided delivery on a skip-day basis, a seven day lead time for routine in-port ships, a 14 day lead time for non-routine in-port ships, and a 21 day lead time for visiting ships. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered by this agency. The proposals received in response to this solicitation will be evaluated using Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) procedures and a contract will be awarded to a Prime Vendor based on that criteria. Offerors MUST be able to interface with the Government's established transaction package and support Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transaction sets listed in the solicitation. Errors in proposals will not be corrected by DLA personnel. The Request for Proposal (RFP) will be posted on the DLABSM DIBBS website, https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/ as RFP # SPE300-19-R-0017. This solicitation is scheduled to be posted in November, 2018.