Request for Information (RFI) for food support for DLA Troop Support's (CONUS SPV) Arizona Region and Federally Funded Customers

This is a Request for Information (RFI) for the Arizona Region. This is not a solicitation for proposals and 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 RFI will be used for informational purposes only. Any proprietary information submitted will be protected if appropriately marked. Vendor participation is not a promise for future business with the Government. The purpose of this RFI is to conduct Market Research. Background: DLA Troop Support expects to issue the solicitation for Subsistence Prime Vendor (SPV) supporting the Arizona Region within the Contiguous United States (CONUS). DLA Troop Support's CONUS SPV contractors are responsible for providing full-line food and beverage item distribution support for Garrison type feeding to the military, federally funded, and other authorized customers in the regions covered by each contract. The DLA Troop Support SPV contractor will be responsible for providing food products such as canned items, dry items, chill items, ultra-high temperature (UHT) dairy items, frozen bakery products, frozen meats, frozen seafood and poultry, ice cream, eggs, and other dairy products under this contract. Information on the current DLA Troop Support CONUS SPV contracts can be found at: http://www.dla.mil/TroopSupport/Subsistence/Foodservices/Regions/CONUS.aspx. Subsistence Prime Vendor support includes but is not limited to: sourcing food items; receiving and consolidating product; warehousing and inventory management; quality control, quality assurance, and inspections; transportation, personnel management, meeting required delivery dates, and extensive reporting requirements. DLA Troop Support's CONUS Subsistence Prime Vendor (CONUS SPV) Program is interested in your comments regarding food support for our current customers listed below in the Arizona Region. ARIZONA CUSTOMERS LUKE AFB, 85309 Luke AFB Ray Hensman Din Hall Luke AFB T-Bolt Caf (Formerly the Falcon Inn) FT HUACHUCA, 85613 Ft. Huachuca TISA Warehouse Ft. Huachuca Weinstein DFAC Ft. Huachuca Thunderbird DFAC DAVIS MONTHAN AFB, 85707 Davis Monthan AFB Desert Inn ARIZONA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 855TH MP CO (170 PAX), 85020 856TH MP CO (170 PAX), 86015 2220TH TRANS CO, 85706 860TH MP CO (170 PAX), 86015 E CO 29TH BDE FSC (127), 85201 A CO 422nd SC (146 PAX), 85222 CO E 1/285TH AVN (BN), 85653 3666th MAINT Co (148 PAX), 85008 FSC 253rd ENG BN (175), 85232 996th ASMC Co AREA SPT, 85281 1404th TRANS Co DET 1(140 PAX),86015 222nd TRANS Co (172 PAX), 85008 CO E 2/285TH AVN (BN), 85653 158TH BSB, 85008 HHC, 158th CSSB (78 PAX), 85713 158th MEB, 85008 Joint Force HQ, 85008 198TH RSG, 85008 OTHER DoD CUSTOMERS Show Low Allen Readiness Center, 85008 Camp Navajo, 86015 Florence Florence Detention Center (BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION), Florence, AZ 85232 Tucson Air National Guard, Tucson, AZ 85034 DHS-ICE-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ 85004 Phoenix Air National Guard, Phoenix, AZ 85034 Fred G. Acosta Job Corps Center, Tucson, AZ 85710 Phoenix Job Corps, Phoenix, AZ 85004 The following are specific questions to consider: 1) Please provide the name of your Company and point of contact information. If your company has a Cage Code, please provide that as well. 2) In what type of business is your company involved - e.g. logistics, food distribution? Who are your firm's major customers, e.g. retailers, industrial accounts, commercial accounts? 3) Is your firm considered a large or small business concern? Small business is generally defined as a firm that employs less than 700 employees. 4) Do you believe your firm can successfully perform the requirements discussed above in the third paragraph of this RFI? If so, please explain why. If not, please explain why. 5) Can you support any or all the customers, in the Arizona Region, as listed above? If you cannot support any or all the customers described above, please provide the reason why you cannot provide support. Many of the customers expect delivery 48 hours after placing their orders. Are there any location limitations in meeting this delivery schedule? 6) Historically, SPV contracts for land customers located in the Arizona Region had contract terms of 5 years and sales in this region have been estimated around $1,247,998.16 per year. Can your firm manage this volume? What is the revenue generated from products moving through your warehouse(s) on an annual basis? Is revenue generated from any other source associated with the aforementioned warehouse? If so, explain? 7) Does your firm have a warehouse in the Arizona Region? If not, does your firm have the capabilities to obtain a warehouse in the Arizona Region? Do you feel it be more feasible to establish more than one warehouse in the Arizona Region to meet customer requirements? Identify any constraints that may prevent your firm from developing a warehouse platform in the Arizona Region. 8) Do you have preferred delivery set-ups (routes, grouping of customers) to provide complete food support throughout the Arizona Region? 9) Some of our customers are remotely located and require smaller pack-size items. Can this requirement be provided? Can you provide service to them, regardless of weather conditions? What method of shipping would be used? 10) The terms of the Berry Amendment, 10 U.S.C. 4862, will likely apply to items under any solicitation that is issued and the resulting contract. In general, items that are subject to the Berry Amendment must be grown, reprocessed, or produced in the United States or its possessions, see DFARS Clause 252.225-7012. Can you provide Berry Amendment compliant/United States domestic products? 11) 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). DLA defines surge as the ability to ramp up quickly to meet early requirements normally needed within the first 30 days of a contingency. Sustainment is defined as the ability to sustain an increased pace throughout the contingency(s) for six months or longer. A surge situation is defined as an increase in military feeding of 300% of peacetime demand for a period of up to 30 days. How would you be able to accommodate this increase? What would be the time frame needed to attain these increased quantities? Will your company be able to operate at the increased output of products for a period of six months or longer? If not, what are some of the reasons why you would not be able to operate at this elevated demand and not meet the surge requirement? 12) Would there be customers who could not be supported if an emergency order is needed (either the same day or next day)? 13) Please confirm if your facility is capable and willing to complete a long-term 5-year contract. We encourage and appreciate your participation; please share your ideas regarding these issues. Your written comments, suggestions and ideas regarding support for our customers will be treated as confidential and for Government use only. Please provide your responses via email, by March 24th, 2022, at 4:00 p.m. Philadelphia Local Time to the following email addresses: Antoinette.Patterson@dla.mil and Ursula.McCoy@dla.mil.