Full Line Food Distribution for South Carolina and Surrounding Areas - SPE30015R0020

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support Subsistence Directorate intends to solicit for Prime Vendor support for the South Carolina area, which includes customers such as Charleston Air Force Base, Shaw Air Force Base, Fort Jackson TISA, Beaufort Naval Hospital and other federally funded agencies for various quantities of subsistence items from the 8900 Federal Catalog or their commercial equivalents. The previous solicitation, SPM300-14-R-0019, was cancelled and was replaced by solicitation number SPE300-15-R-0020. The total estimated dollar value of the requirement is $123 million. The items will be delivered approximately 90 days after the date of award. The effective period for the base period of the contract is from the award date up to thirty-nine (39) months thereafter (Note: There will be an up to (90-day) start-up/implementation period upon award followed by a three (3) year ordering period. This is an unrestricted acquisition. 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 procedures and awarded to a Prime Vendor based on that criteria. Offers MUST be able to interface with the Government's established translation 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 DLABSM DIBBS website. The website can be found at https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/. Additionally, please note attached to this notice is a *DRAFT* version of the solicitation. This official solicitation is scheduled to be posted on or around April 1, 2015. A Pre-Solicitation Conference was conducted on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Please submit your questions regarding the Pre-solicitation conference for evaluation NLT April 1, 2015 (SEE ATTACHED SLIDESHOW). The time and location was as follows: DLA Troop Support 700 Robbins Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19111 Building 4 Auditorium 10:00 AM Eastern (Registration) 10:15 AM Eastern (Meeting Start Time) The following people were the POC's for the Pre-Solicitation Conference: Sean Gemmell (Sean.Gemmell@dla.mil), Angela Cusati (Angela.Cusati@dla.mil) and Daniel Monteiro (Daniel.Monteiro@dla.mil).