73 -- To Provide Food Service Equipment (FSE) and incidental services to the U.S. Military and other authorized customers of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).

The Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP) intends to issue a solicitation to establish Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Contracts to provide Food Service Equipment (FSE) and incidental services to the U.S. Military and other authorized customers of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Under the FSE Prime Vendor (PV) Program, the government intends to purchase a broad range of food service equipment and incidental services to be used by the military and other government land dining facilities at various locations worldwide as well as Navy and shipboard galleys, government dining halls and government or institutional cafeterias in order to produce, prepare or store food products and clean utensils and equipment. This also includes products associated with the receipt and storage of food, serving, presentation and preservation of food and clean up or maintenance of FSE. The FSE PV Program does not include accessories such as certain small wares, table wares or Food Service Operating Supplies (FSOS) that fall under other DSCP Prime Vendor contracts or those items managed by other government programs. To provide definition and boundaries, awards will be made based on six designated zones for the following areas: ZONE I - CONUS, EAST; ZONE II – CONUS, WEST; ZONE III - OCONUS, EAST; ZONE IV – OCONUS, WEST; ZONE V - MARITIME, EAST; ZONE VI – MARITIME, WEST Zones I, III, and IV will be solicited as Unrestricted; Zones II and VI will be solicited as Total Small Business Set-Asides. Zone V will now be solicited as Total 8(a) Set Aside; only firms that have been certified as 8(a) by the Small Business Administration (SBA) may offer on this zone. Estimated annual dollar value is $52,000,000. Performance will commence on June 28, 2004. The contracts will be awarded as Indefinite Delivery Contracts. The base contract period will be one (1) year with the Government to hold four (4) one year options. All responsible sources (distributors only - please, no manufacturers) may submit proposals, which will be considered by the agency. Copies of this solicitation (after issuance date) can be found on the DLA Procurement Gateway at http://progate.daps.mil/home or http://214.3.146.126/home. From the Gateway homepage, select “Search RFPs” from the left-hand sidebar. Then choose the RFP you wish to view. If you are not currently registered on the Gateway, you will be requested to do so before downloading. Hard copies of this solicitation will not be distributed. RFPs are in portable document format (PDF). In order to download and view these docurments you will need the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. This software is available free at http://www.adobe.com. Gateway technical assistance is available at [email protected]. Anticipated Solicitation Issuance: September 2003. A Pre Proposal Conference is planned for this acquisition and will tentatively be held approximately 2-3 weeks after actual solicitation issuance date. Additional Point of Contact for this acquisition is Scott Fletcher, Contract Specialist, Phone 215-737-3891, Fax 215-737-7009, Email [email protected].