Bottled_Water_Requirement.docx

Bottled Water Requirement Specifications and Requirements

The water must be bottled in Puerto Rico, its production date must be after 1 March 2019. The water may be Spring or Purified but must meet all Federal Department of Agriculture (FDA) specifications (see attachment) concerning specific levels of minerals, chemicals, and microbiological standards. It must also meet all physical standards that set levels for turbidity, color and odor, it must also meet all radiological standards.

The water is to be supplied in .5Liter plastic bottles – these bottles will further be packaged in a unit pack of 24 bottles – these units will be stacked on special heavy duty 40X48 inch pallets (see attachment) no more than four (4) levels high. The pallets will be stamped “Property of US Govt”. Once each pallet is loaded it will be double wrapped with standard pallet wrapping plastic to ensure stability during transport. Total requested amount is 21,200,000 bottles – 20.8M will be for Puerto Rico and 400,000 will be sent to the US Virgin Islands.

The Water will be delivered to four (4) separate FEMA warehouse in Puerto Rico by the contractor (specific QTY’s of how much goes to each warehouse will be provided to the winning vendor.)

There will also be a shipment made to three (3) FEMA warehouses in the US Virgin Islands – the exact QTY for each warehouse will be provided to the winning vendor.

FEMAs Puerto Rico Warehouse are:

Bayamon, PR 00961 Ponce, PR 00780 Ceiba, PR 00735