This federal contract award, valued at $796,744.00, was issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service to Cherry Meat Packers, Inc., doing business as The Chicago Meat, for the supply of frozen beef products to support domestic food assistance programs. The contract covers the delivery of approximately 680,000 pounds of fine ground frozen beef, beef fine ground, and beef fine ground lift option frozen beef packages in 1-pound and 40-pound configurations. The contract has a partial small business set-aside designation. The award is the result of a competitive solicitation issued by the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service, which sought proposals for frozen beef commodities to be delivered to various locations across the United States. Cherry Meat Packers, a for-profit manufacturer of frozen beef products located in Chicago, Illinois, has a long history of fulfilling similar large-scale contracts with the USDA to support federal food assistance initiatives, including the Emergency Food Assistance Program, Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations, and National School Lunch Program.
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