The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service awarded an indefinite delivery contract with a potential value of $1,236,900 to Simmons Farm Raised Catfish Inc. to supply raw catfish fillets in support of USDA food donation programs. Simmons Farms will deliver approximately 2 million pounds of unpackaged catfish fillets in 2-pound packages to locations in Yazoo City, Mississippi between November 2023 and June 2024.
The originating solicitation sought offers for over 259,000 cases of frozen chicken breasts and 5.7 million pounds of raw catfish fillets for domestic food assistance programs. Vendors were required to qualify with AMS and submit bids electronically by November 2023. The solicitation utilized various small business set-asides and reserved quantities for small, small disadvantaged, women-owned, veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, and AbilityOne firms. Deliveries were to occur at various points in the United States through June 2024. The solicitation and any resulting awards support the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service's Commodity Procurement Program by acquiring protein products to distribute in domestic food assistance initiatives.
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