BID REPORT-FY27 QTR 2 SMK.pdf

This is a Request for Quote (RFQ) from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (DEVENS FMC) for the Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2027. The solicitation requests pricing for a comprehensive range of food and non-food items to support federal prison operations, organized across multiple bid groups and storage areas.

The certified foods bid group includes dry storage items such as kosher bran flakes (3,000 units), kosher farina (2 units), kosher mayonnaise (23 units), kosher mustard (8 units), and various kosher-certified jelly, sardines, and vegetable juice products. The frozen foods section encompasses halal and kosher meal components, including halal beef pot roast meals (1 unit), halal cheese omelet meals (29 units), halal chicken cacciatore meals (4 units), halal chicken chow mein meals (4 units), halal chicken wing meals (9 units), halal meatloaf meals (4 units), halal spaghetti and meatballs meals (2 units), halal Spanish omelet meals (18 units), halal turkey cutlet meals (3 units), and kosher variants of these same meal types in significantly larger quantities (ranging from 10 to 135 units). Additional frozen items include kosher pasta meals, roasted chicken breast, soy vegetarian lasagna, and vegetarian eggplant creole meals. The meats bid group requires beef for grilling (600 pounds), beef patties (5,000 pounds), ground beef 80/20 (10,000 pounds), chicken leg quarters (16,000 pounds), boneless/skinless chicken (16,000 pounds), fish fillets (3,000 pounds), pork roast (3,000 pounds), and turkey roast raw (5,000 pounds). The subsistence bid group specifies non-food items including bakery mitts (60 units) and rubber gloves (60 pairs). The cold storage bid group includes American cheese slices (900 pounds), bulk butter salted (450 pounds), butter reddies (50,000 units), cheddar cheese (20 units), margarine bulk (120 units), mozzarella cheese (60 units), parmesan cheese (50 units), and tofu firm (3,000 pounds). The dry storage section lists beans in multiple varieties (black, kidney, navy, and pinto beans in 50-pound bags ranging from 20 to 120 units), plus numerous shelf-stable items including beets, beverage mix, brown sugar, carrots, catsup, cereals, coffee, corn, cranberry sauce, dressings, flour, fruit cocktail, green beans, jalapeños, jelly, kosher potato chips, tuna fish, citrus juices, mixed vegetables, mushrooms, mustard, non-fat dry milk, pasta, peaches, peanut butter, peas, rice, salad oil, salt, shortening, soup bases, soy sauce, spinach, sugar, taco shells, tartar sauce, tomatoes, tortilla chips, vegetable soup base, vinegar, and flour tortillas (18,240 units). The solicitation does not specify response deadlines, award dates, or detailed pricing terms beyond requesting item price and total price columns to be completed by vendors. No set-asides are explicitly indicated in the document.