Award Information

This is an Award Information document for the Savannah-Chatham County Board of Education's School Nutrition Department in Georgia regarding Bid 22-12 for Commodity Processing Chicken. The contract was awarded to two vendors: Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc. and Gold Creek Foods, LLC. The solicitation sought sealed bids from qualified processors to process USDA commodity foods, with bidders required to be approved by the State of Georgia Food Processing Program and to supply only items appearing on the state's list of approved processor end products. The processor was required to make multiple deliveries throughout the school year, with delivery quantities to be mutually agreed upon between the school nutrition program and the processor.

All freight and delivery charges must be included in the unit pricing. The contract prioritizes domestically grown and processed foods to the maximum extent practicable in compliance with Section 104(d) of the William F. Goodling Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act and Section 12(n) of the National School Lunch Act. Suppliers may be required to certify the percentage of U.S. content in products supplied. As an annual contract award, this agreement establishes an ongoing commodity processing relationship for the school district's nutrition operations.