Catered breakfast for 150 people each day from 4 May to 7 May 2015, Catered Lunches for 150 people each day from 4 May to 6 May 2015, and Catered Dinners for 150 people each day from 3 May to 6 May 2015.

. Description of Action:
a. Requirement: Daily Meals for various Air National Guard Mission Support Group Detachments at Alpena CRTC at Phelps Collins Open Mess/River Club
b. Contract Type: Firm Fixed Price
c. Estimated Cost: 12,937.50
d. Form 9 #:
3. Description of Supplies/Services:
Breakfast, lunch and dinner meals for various 127th Mission Support Group Detachments at Alpena CRTC. These meals are in support of exercises to be held from 3-7 May 2015.


4. Authority Cited: The applicable FAR reference is 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements; (a) Authority. (1) Citations: 10 U.S.C. 2304(c) (1) or 41 U.S.C. 253(c) (1). (2) When the supplies or services required by the agency are available from only one responsible source, or, for DoD, NASA, and the Coast Guard, from only one or a limited number of responsible sources, and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements, full and open competition need not be provided for.

5. Reason for Authority Cited: The Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center DFAC is unavailable to the Air National Guard MSG detachments during the course of their training exercises scheduled at the Alpena CRTC. The Air National Guard MSG detachments are not authorized per diem and have limited means of either Government or personal motorized transportation. The proposed feeding site, Phelps Collins Open Mess Inc (the River Club), is located on the CRTC grounds and is frequently utilized as a secondary feeding site for military organizations training at Alpena. The River Club facilities have been inspected by appropriate military public health organizations and employees have been given the appropriate US Department of Health and Human Services training. There are no other known eating establishments near the Alpena CRTC that have been inspected by military public health organizations and are accessible to those individuals without ready access to motorized transportation.

6. Efforts to Obtain Competition: N/A
7. Actions to Increase Competition: N/A
8. Market Research: The Phelps Collins Open Mess/River Club is a SAM registered business and has been a recipient of DoD purchase orders a number of times before.
9. Interested Sources: There have been no sources that have written to express interest in the acquisition.
10. Other Facts:
a. Procurement history: N/A
b. Acquisition data availability: N/A
c. Unusual and compelling urgency. N/A.
d. Subcontracting competition. N/A.