m. Amendment 2.docx

Amendment #2

RFB # PA180737

Cheese Quesadilla, Bulk Fook Processing Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (8/28/2017)

The following is the response to a request for further clarification about the answers given to some of the questions in Amendment 1.

Section 6.2 CORRESPONDENCE, CLARIFICATIONS AND QUESTIONS, of the RFB document.

Q1: On reviewing the Q&A contained in Amendment #1, I need further clarification on one item:

Question 1 clearly states, as does the actual bid, that any submitted products must be 100% compliant to the specs. Your specs clearly call out that the products must utilize either mozzarella cheese OR Cheddar, and not both. The spec calls out “One cheese for each bidder response”; does that rule out using a 50/50 blend of mozz/sub-mozz? Then later on in Question 18, the water gets muddy when someone asks about using 50/50 cheese (generally accepted to be a blend of 50% real cheese and 50% substitute cheese), which according to my reading of your specifications, would NOT be compliant. This can be important because a 50/50 blend product would be significantly less expensive than one using 100% mozz or 100% cheddar. If this is going to be opened up to blended cheese products, we will be needing to submit more than one item as well. We would prefer not to do so, as this throws the written specs essentially out the door…can we get a clarification as to whether you are going to look at ONLY the 100% mozz or 100% cheddar products, or will in fact consider for award 50/50 blend cheese items, which really do not meet your specs? We would urge that the language in your specification be amended to specifically include or exclude 50/50 blended mozz/sub-mozz cheese. This would eliminate a lot of ambiguity.

A1: Please see Amendment 2 below for a correction to specifications.

Amendment to sections within RFB #PA180737 are provided below.

· Added text appear as double underlined.

· Deleted text shall have a strikethrough.

1.2 PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE REQUEST FOR BID

The State of Wisconsin, Department of Administration, Consolidated Agency Purchasing Services (CAPS) on behalf of the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), request Bids for the processing of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Bulk Cheese, Mozzarella, LM PT Skim, unfrozen, USDA Foods Material ID Code #110244 (“bulk cheese”) OR Bulk Cheese, Cheddar Yellow Block, USDA Foods Material ID Code #110254 (“bulk cheese”) into Cheese Quesadillas and intends to use the results of this process to award a Contract. Only one bulk USDA Food product will be shipped to Contractor for the processing of the cheese quesadillas. DPI does not guarantee it shall purchase any specific quantity or dollar amount. Bids that require a minimum number of commodities or Services be ordered shall be rejected. There shall be no guarantee to purchase any specific quantity, or pay any minimum Contract price during the term of the Contract.

3.1.1 Cheese Quesadillas:

3.1.1.1 Using USDA Foods Bulk Cheese, Mozzarella LM PT Skim, unfrozen (USDA #110244), OR Bulk Cheese, Cheddar Yellow Block (USDA #110254) and sauce, Bidder shall produce a cheese quesadilla. Bidder’s cheese quesadilla may contain other non-USDA Foods cheese (cannot be a cheese product, cheese substitute, cheese food substitute, cheese spread substitute or imitation cheese). Bidder shall only use select one cheese, mozzarella or cheddar for each Bidder response.