Bid 22-12 Notification Letter

This is a Bid Notification Letter from the Savannah-Chatham County Board of Education's School Nutrition Department in Georgia soliciting sealed bids for processing USDA commodity foods. The solicitation seeks qualified processors to convert USDA commodity chicken into end products for distribution throughout the school year. Bidders must be approved by the Georgia State Food Processing Program and offer only products from the state's approved processor end products list. The processor must demonstrate capacity to make multiple deliveries of products throughout the school nutrition program's operational year, with delivery quantities to be mutually agreed upon between the school nutrition department and the selected processor.

All freight and delivery charges must be included in the unit pricing submitted by bidders. The Savannah-Chatham County School Nutrition Program prioritizes domestic sourcing 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, committing to purchasing domestically grown and processed foods to the maximum extent practicable. Suppliers may be required to certify the percentage of U.S. content in the products they supply to the school system.