SOLICITATION NOTICE
89 -- Request for Information (RFI) for full service food support for DLA Troop Support's (OCONUS SPV) Guam area military and federally funded customers.
- Notice Date
- 5/9/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 311999
— All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Defense Logistics Agency, DLA Acquisition Locations, DLA Troop Support - Subsistence, 700 Robbins Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19111-5096, United States
- ZIP Code
- 19111-5096
- Solicitation Number
- SPM300-12-R-0015
- Point of Contact
- Neil-Michael Chiaradio, Phone: 2157378545, Michelle Norton, Phone: 2157374853
- E-Mail Address
-
neil.michael.chiaradio@dla.mil, Michelle.Norton@dla.mil
(neil.michael.chiaradio@dla.mil, Michelle.Norton@dla.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is a request for information (RFI). DLA Troop Support's OCONUS Subsistence Prime Vendor (OCONUS SPV) Program is interested in your comments regarding full service food support to our military and federally funded customers in Guam, Marianas Islands. There is no solicitation available at this time. The Government will not pay for any information received in response to this RFI, nor will the Government compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing the information provided to the Government. This RFI does not constitute a commitment from the Government and any information provided in response to this market survey will be used for informational purposes only and will not be released. Any proprietary information submitted will be protected if appropriately marked. Vendor participation is not a promise for future business with the Government. The sole purpose of this RFI is to conduct Market Research. Please consider the following questions: 1. Currently product is brought in to Guam via the Defense Transportation System (DTS). Does your firm anticipate bringing in product utilizing this system or are you currently bringing in product for your commercial distribution in Guam? Prime Vendor support includes the ability to source food items, to receive and consolidate materials, warehousing and inventory management, transportation capabilities, the ability to accept customer orders electronically and provide delivery, and the ability to maintain a quality assurance program. Can you provide Prime Vendor support to our customers located in Guam (which include, but are not limited to land based customers in approximately 65 different locations, Navy Ships, Combat Stores Ships (T-AFS ships), the Department of Education, and other approved military and federal customers)? 2. A Government owned warehouse is available for use in Guam under any resultant contract. Though Government owned, the vendor would operate this facility (known as GOCO-Government Owned/Contractor Operated). Is there a possibility that you would use this facility or your own warehouse, located either within Guam or outside of Guam? Please explain. 3. The average weekly sales for Guam are about $330,560.00. Can your firm handle this? What is the dollar value of product going through your warehouse on a weekly basis? 4. Many of the customers expect delivery 48 hours after placing their orders, which is qualified as being the normal course of delivery. Can you accommodate this delivery schedule and how? 5. What is your normal lead time for orders? Under what circumstances do you have the ability to fill orders with shorter than the required lead time? 6. A Surge Requirement is one that could increase the normal orders by 300% in which you would be required to satisfy requirements for emergency situations (i.e., ramp up to meet early requirements (surge) and/or requirements that may exceed estimated annual quantities). How would you be able to accommodate this increase? What would be the time period to attain these increased quantities? How long could you continue to operate at this increased output of products? 7. Is your firm a large or small business concern? (Small business being defined as a firm that employs less than 500 employees). 8. Who are your firm's major customers, e.g. retailers, industrial accounts, commercial accounts? 9. Items that are supplied under a resulting contract must be grown and produced in the United States or its' possession, See DFARS 225-7002 and DFARS Clause 252.225-7012 (except, for example - Bananas, Beef Extract, Canned Corned Beef, unroasted Brazil Nuts, Capers, Cashew Nuts, Castor Beans and Oil, Chestnuts, Chile, Cocoa Beans, raw or green Coffee bean, canned Mandarin Oranges, Bulk Spices and Herbs, flour and cassava Tapioca, Bulk Tea, Thyme Oil, Olive Oil, raw Sugar, Vanilla beans, pitted or unpitted or stuffed in bulk Olives, unsweetened Coconut and coconut meat, in shredded, desiccated or similarly prepared forms). Based on the foregoing, can you provide domestic product? 10. Do you have any long-term contracts with your customers and/or suppliers? If yes, please describe. If no, please explain why, e.g., pricing too volatile, no interest. 11. For the following question, please reference DLAD 52.216-9065 Economic Price Adjustment - Actual Material Costs for Subsistence Product Price Business Model (NOV 2011) at http://farsite.hill.af.mil/reghtml/regs/other/dlad/part52.htm#P10957_912667 for the following definitions, specifically (3) Product Price is the most recent DLA Troop Support Manufacturer's Price Agreement (MPA) price or the most recent manufacturer, grower or private label holder commercial price per unit to the Contractor, exclusive of standard freight. The Product Price shall be based on FOB Origin/Point of Manufacture. Product Price shall exclude all costs that are to be covered in the Distribution Price (with a few exceptions, see clause) and (5) Distribution Price(s) means the firm fixed price portion of the Contract Unit Price, offered as a dollar amount per unit of issue, rounded up or down to the nearest cent. The Distribution Price is the only method for the Contractor to bill the Government for all aspects of contract performance other than Product Price, including but not limited to, the performance requirements of the SOW. As detailed above in (3), Product Price is distinct from and not to be included in the Distribution Price. Can you comply with all terms and conditions within this Economic Price Adjustment clause and pricing model? If yes, what is your planned process of execution? If not, please explain in detail what part(s) of the clause pose any problems and why. 12. All packaging and packing shall be in accordance with best commercial practices. Labeling shall be in accordance with commercial labeling complying with the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act 21 U.S.C. 301 et seq. and regulations promulgated there under. However, there will be various packaging sizes based on customer needs which include, but are not limited to different packaging/packing size, marking/labeling, and palletization/containerization. Are you able to comply with these varying packaging/packing, marking/labeling and palletization/containerization, as stated? 13. As far as shelf life of delivered products the following applies: Land based customers generally receive a shelf life of not less than thirty (30) days from the expiration date. Generally a shelf life of not less than 50% of the products original shelf life remaining is supplied to T-AKE ships, submarines, other large customers, and ship load-out or top off customers (ship load-out and top off customers generally hold enough product to support its customers for 30, 60, or 90 days). Navy Direct Ship Support customers generally receive a shelf life with at least sixty (60) days of original shelf life remaining at the time of delivery. Can your firm deliver products with the shelf life stated above or better? We encourage, appreciate, and would like to thank you in advance for your participation. Your responses, comments, suggestions and ideas regarding support for our customers are requested back by the close of business on May 18, 2012. Your responses may be sent via mail or email to the following mailing address or email address: Neil-Michael Chiaradio Contract Specialist neil.michael.chiaradio@dla.mil Phone: 215-737-8545 Michelle Norton Contracting Officer michelle.norton@dla.mil Phone: 215-737-4853
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- Place of Performance
- Address: DLA Troop Support Philadelphia, Directorate of Subsistence/Prime Vendor OCONUS, ATTN: FTAF/ Neil-Michael Chiaradio, 700 Robbins Avenue, Building 6, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19111, United States
- Zip Code: 19111
- Zip Code: 19111
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