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June 2025 Meat & Cheese - DOC-PE - Addendum No. 1 - Specification Revisions Date Issued: 05/06/25 Your r
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3000024708
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Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

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This document is an Attachment B - Special Conditions for Meat solicitation (RFx No. 3000024708) related to a June 2025 Meat & Cheese procurement, likely involving a public agency participating in the USDA Child Food Nutrition Program. The solicitation specifically focuses on chicken leg quarters, livers, and gizzards, with strict requirements for product quality, processing, and delivery. Products must be blast frozen, maintained at 10 degrees Fahrenheit during transport, packed in plastic-lined boxes, and delivered on standard 40" x 48" non-exchangeable pallets with monofilament tape or plastic banding and packing date markings.

The solicitation emphasizes product integrity, mandating that chickens must be disease-free, in prime condition, and show no signs of defrosting or refreezing. A notable legal provision prohibits unreasonably restrictive qualifications or percentage factors that could provide bidding advantages to in-state or local firms, ensuring open competition for public agencies receiving USDA Child Food Nutrition Program funds. The special conditions apply to specific line items (Lines 1 and 28), with the broader goal of maintaining high-quality food standards for institutional food service providers such as school districts and tribal governments.

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Attachment B – Special Conditions for Meat

RFx No.: 3000024708 Title: June 2025 Meat & Cheese – DOC-PE

Attachment A – Special Terms and Conditions

RFX No.: Title:

*SPECIAL CONDITIONS FOR CHICKEN LEG QUARTERS, LIVERS & GIZZARDS*

RFx Line Number(s) 1 and 28.

Product is to be prepared from chickens which are free from evidence of disease or any condition which would render them unwholesome. Birds showing emaciation or other evidence of poor condition shall be excluded.

Chicken product shall be solidly frozen and shall have been processed in accordance with sound operating procedures. Products shall be in prime condition and in a solidly frozen state and shall show no evidence of defrosting or refreezing at time of delivery.

Products to be delivered at delivery point blast frozen. (No ice pack parts to be no higher temperature than 10 degrees Fahrenheit coming off of the truck at delivery point.) Product to be packed in plastic lined boxes.

Product to be delivered palletized and wrapped on standard non-throw-away pallets, size 40” wide x 48” long. Pallets will not be exchanged. Each box must be monofilament taped or plastic banded girth-wise with date of packing at upper right hand corner of box.

· Special Note Regarding Line 12 Federal Law 7cfr Part 3016.60(C) of Subpart E prohibits the application of unreasonably restrictive qualifications and any percentage factors that give bidding advantages to In-State or Local Firms as barriers to open and free competition for public agencies entitled to funds under The USDA Child Food Nutrition Program. Usage of a preference in procurements made on behalf of agencies receiving funds under this entitlement are prohibited. State and local government entities include school districts, and tribal governments.

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