V--Cook Chill Transportation

The Department of Veterans Affairs Medical center Hampton Virginia has a need for a contractor to provide all labor, tools, materials and equipment, to include refrigerated trucks, necessary for the weekly transportation/delivery of cook-chill food products from the food production kitchen locate at the Department of Veterans Medical Center. Located in North Carolina - Asheville, Fayetteville, Durham, Salisbury), (Virginia; - Richmond, Salem and West Virginian (Beckley)). Delivery shall be accomplished through specified distribution routes within two days after pickup from VAMC Hampton. Point of origin for each distribution route is the food production kitchen at VAMC Hampton. The VA estimates one trip per week per distribution route. This "Sources Sought Notice" is to determine sources for this food transportation service. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT announcement only. The purpose of this notice is to conduct market research and obtain information from qualified businesses. This is not a request for bids, quotes, or proposals. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement which shall be considered by the agency. The responses to this announcement will assist in determining the socio-economic set aside if feasible. The Veterans Administration is required by Public Law 109-461 to give first priority to SDVOSB and VOSB concerns if there should be sufficient firms available to compete under a set aside. If insufficient veteran owned and small business response is received to establish the basis for setting this action aside for other than large business participation then the action will be advertised as full and open competition, in which case, all interested parties responding shall be eligible to bid. This notice shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to ultimately award a contract, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary; the Government will not pay for information requested nor will it compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing information provided to the Government. Interested parties submitting a response to this inquiry must include the following information: name and address of company; business size (large or small); identify applicable socioeconomic categories and any pertinent information which demonstrates firms ability to meet the above requirement. All responses shall be submitted no later than February 29, 2016 at 9:00am EST. Responses shall be emailed to: [email protected].