Camp Ripley Bulk Ice

The Minnesota Army National Guard seeks bulk cubed bagged ice for Camp Ripley in Little Falls, Minnesota, with quotes due May 21, 2026. The procurement is a Total Small Business set-aside, restricting eligibility to firms with 750 employees or fewer.

Place of performance is Camp Ripley, building 2-207, Little Falls, MN 56345, with alternate on-base delivery locations specified by building number or 10-digit MGRS grid. Ice must be potable, cube-configured, packaged in minimum 1.75 mil thickness plastic bags containing exactly 20 pounds each, with no more than 100 bags per food-grade pallet and shrink-wrapped. All ice must be manufactured, processed, stored, and shipped from a sanitarily approved establishment. Transportation requires refrigerated trucks maintaining 18 degrees Fahrenheit or less, with delivery within 48 hours of request. The contractor must provide their own pallet jack; government personnel will perform unloading using forklifts or dock plates.

The base year and each of four ordering periods span June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2031, with an estimated base-year quantity of 112,000 pounds (5,600 twenty-pound bags). Individual delivery orders range from 5,000 to 40,000 pounds, with quarterly issuance from the Minnesota USPFO Contracting Office. The maximum contractor obligation is 120,000 pounds. Peak delivery occurs May through September 2026 (30,000, 30,000, 25,000, 20,000, and 5,000 pounds respectively).

All pricing must be submitted as firm fixed price with F.O.B. Destination terms (contractor pays transportation). Evaluation is price-based following acceptance of technical submission and past performance references (limited to three contract references, two pages each). Award will be made to the lowest-priced acceptable offeror, with anticipated award May 28, 2026. NAICS is 312113, Ice Manufacturing; PSC is 8960, Beverages, Nonalcoholic. This is a recompete of prior contract W912LM-24-P-0018.