Sources Sought for Food Service Contractors

This is not a request for quote, request for proposal, or invitation for bid. This is a sources sought for government planning purposes only. Responses to this announcement are not considered quotes or offers, and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responses will not be used for any evaluation in any resultant solicitation for this requirement. All contractor responses or questions shall be submitted in writing via email or fax and all Government responses will be posted in FedBizOpps. The Government will not be held responsible for any costs incurred in response to this sources sought announcement. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) seeks a contractor that can provide fresh food services (breakfast, lunch and snacks) including some catering for its workforce at two NGA Campus West (NCW) locations. The NCW workforce currently numbers approximately 2,900 at its St. Louis, MO campus (3200 South 2nd Street, St. Louis, MO 63118) and 600 at its Arnold, MO campus (3838 Vogel Road, Arnold, MO 63010). The contractor shall provide high quality food service operations with a wide variety of food and non-alcoholic beverages and other items at competitive prices. The contractor shall provide all management, supervision, labor, supplies and equipment (except as otherwise provided), as well as ensuring effective performance of all cafeteria/snack bar services that meets the highest sanitation standards. Hours of operation will be from 0545 to 1330, Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays. NGA will provide the necessary space, major food service equipment, furnishings, water and utilities to operate at both NCW locations. This proposed business opportunity will be a full and open competition. The award will be a zero dollar (no cost to the government) commercial item contract with an 8% minimum concession fee based on a percentage of monthly gross customer sales. Contract period of performance shall be from date of award (estimated 1 May 2013) to include a base period of one year and four (4) one year option periods. Since both campus facilities are secure, the contractor's employees must be U.S. citizens, undergo security checks, and strictly adhere to all security policies and procedures. Contractors will be given the opportunity to view both food service facilities on Monday, November 19, 9:00 a.m., meeting first at the 3200 South 2nd Street location and then meeting at the 3838 Vogel Road location at 1:00 p.m. In order to view the facilities you MUST provide (1) the legal name of each person attending, (2) Driver's license number (including State of issuance) OR Social Security Number and (3) the Company being represented no later than November 14, 2012 to Mary Fisher, Contract Specialist, via email (mary.a.fisher@nga.mil). Please copy Patricia Henson, Contracting Officer (patricia.a.henson@nga.mil) on all email correspondence. You may also fax the information to: "Attention Mary Fisher/Patricia Henson" at 314-676-3010. It is highly recommended that you arrive 30 minutes prior to the meeting times in order to get through security and badging. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 722310 with a small business size standard (code 5812) of $15.0M.