Full Line Food Services for Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; and Yuma, AZ

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support Subsistence Directorate intends to solicit for Prime Vendor support for the customers in Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; Yuma, AZ region and other federally funded agencies. Requirements include various quantities of Subsistence items from the 8900 Federal Catalog or their commercial equivalents. The total estimated dollar value of this procurement is $239,010,000.00. The Period of Performance will be of a term of five (5) years, with three (3) separate pricing tiers. The first tier period will consist of twenty-four (24) months (inclusive of up to a 120-day start-up/implementation period upon award with a twenty (20) month ordering period), a second tier period of twelve (12) months, and a third tier period of twenty-four (24) months. The resultant award will be a Fixed-Price contract subject to Economic Price Adjustment (EPA). The items will be delivered approximately 120 days after the date of award. The acquisition will be Full and Open Competition "unrestricted". Customers will be provided delivery on a "just in time" basis. 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 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 # SPE300-18-R-0038. This solicitation is scheduled to be posted in November 2018.