RTI Full Food Service (FFS)

Dining facility Full Food Service (FFS)

This is a non-personal services contract to provide DFAC food service operations supporting the Florida Regional Training Institute (RTI) at designated Dining Facility. The United States Government (USG) shall not exercise any supervision or control over the contract service providers performing the services herein. Such contract service providers shall be accountable solely to the Contractor who, in turn is responsible to the USG.

Please ensure you carefully read the entire Solicitation requirements specicifally, Addendum to 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors and Addendum to Evaluation criteria. Send any questions to the POC listed via email and a response will be posted to SAM

Description of Requirement: The contractor will perform food service requirements to meet FFS services and remote site feeding requirements at designated training areas. The Contractor shall provide quality services in support of the schoolhouse food service program supporting the warfighter with flexible, efficient, and cost-effective services through management innovations and use of industry best practices, where applicable, while ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations. The contractor shall provide all supervision, labor, personnel, equipment, materials and supplies, except Government Furnished Property (GFP), to perform FFS Operations for approximately 2,000 students annually. This will be a base year plus four option years IDIQ award.

The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 722310 with a Small Business Size Standard of $47M. The Product Service Code (PSC) is M1FD. The solicitation, as well as all notices and amendments, will be posted to the Government Point of Entry located at https://sam.gov

Randolph-Sheppard Act (RSA) Compliance: This solicitation is subject to exercise of the priority policy regarding qualified State Licensing Agencies (SLA) for the Blind in accordance with the RSA. An offer determined “Technically Acceptable” from a qualified SLA will receive priority in accordance with the RSA and Army Regulation 210-25. Once the Contracting Officer determines that the SLA/blind vendor’s proposal should be included in the competitive range, the award will be made to the SLA/blind vendor unless (1) under the SLA/blind vendor’s proposal it cannot provide food service at a comparable cost and of comparable high quality as available from other providers and (2) the Department of Education concurs in the decision. This notice is not designed to discourage competition from small business concerns not eligible for the preference. This merely serves as notice that the required priority will be applied should an offer determined to be “Technically Acceptable” determined to be in the competitive range, be received from a qualified SLA. The SLA for Florida, Department of Services for the Blind, has expressed an interest in this requirement.