USPFO for Tennessee, P.O. Box 40748, Powell Avenue, Nashville, TN 37204-0748

89 -- PRIME VENDOR SUBSISTENCE PROGRAM Sol. DAHA40-95-R-0008. Due 110295. Contact CW3 Sharon Price, 615-532-3219 or LTC James L. Coonce, 615-532-3220 (Contracting Officer). The Tennessee National Guard requires a total food and beverage Indefinite Delivery Quantity Contract to support the food service requirements of National Guard units while training in the State of Tennessee. Support requirements include providing rations and delivering them to approximately eighty-seven (87) part-time Army Guard dining facilities located at armories across the State of Tennessee; one (1) full time Air Guard dining facility located at McGhee Tyson Air Base; three (3) part-time Air Guard dining facilities located at Air Guard bases at Nashville, Chattanooga and Memphis and three (3) Army training sites located throughout the State of Tennessee. Additional support will include providing intermittent food products and delivery to other State units while training in the State of Tennessee. Non-food items will not be included in this solicitation. Subsistence items ordered will be mostly raw or uncooked, requiring food preparation and/or cooking by National Guard personnel. Multiple awards may be made to support these requirements. The State of Tennessee shall be broken down into three (3) regions, Region 1 (East Tennessee), Region 2 (Middle Tennessee), and Region 3 (West Tennessee). All interested vendors and suppliers are invited to submit an offer on any one or any combination of regions. The contract will be awarded for a base period of one (1) year with four (4) one year options. The total cost of the contract shall not exceed $10,000,000.00. All prospective offerors interested in submitting a proposal in response of this Request for Proposal are invited to request a solicitation from the Contracting Officer, USPFO for Tennessee, ATTN: CW4 Lois J. Pyrdum, P. O. Box 40748, Powell Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee 37204-0748. Offers will be evaluated and award will be made in accordance with best value source selection procedures. Award will be based on factors other than cost or price alone. Prospective offerors will be evaluated under two general category factors: (1) technical and (2) pricing (the business proposal). The technical evaluation factors shall be somewhat more important than price. The following is the technical evaluation criteria listed in their relative order of importance: (1) Distribution System Plan - (a) Product Availability, (b) Ordering System and (c) Customer Service and Support, (2) Past performance and corporate experience, (3) Quality assurance plan, (4) Management plan and procurement pricing, and (5) Socioeconomic considerations. The following is the business proposal evaluation criteria listed in their relative order of importance: (1) Pricing related to sixty-eight (68) sample food items and (2) Distribution pricing. Prospective contractors requesting and responding to the solicitation may render their proposal technically unacceptable if they fail to provide the information requested in the solicitation. This project is open to large as well as small business firms (unrestricted). (275)

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