Deer Carcass Processing Services – Wildlife Services, OH

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Wildlife Services seeks quotations for deer carcass processing services supporting wildlife management operations in Ohio, with quotations due August 7, 2026. This is a Total Small Business Set-Aside with a 1,000-employee size standard. Amendment 001 extended the closing date to August 7, 2026.

Place of performance is a qualified meat processing facility located within approximately 60 miles of Brecksville, Ohio. The contractor must receive field-dressed, eviscerated deer deliveries Tuesday through Saturday, 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM, with annual volumes ranging from 100 to 1,600 deer, primarily between October and March. The facility must maintain separate cold storage for Chronic Wasting Disease–sampled deer pending test results and achieve 98 percent processing compliance and 100 percent CWD segregation compliance. All venison must be skinned, deboned, ground, and packaged in 1-pound or 5-pound units with specified labeling, then frozen to 0 degrees Fahrenheit or below. Waste disposal through sanitary landfill cannot exceed 2 percent of delivered deer and is borne by the contractor.

The solicitation will result in a five-year firm fixed-price Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a $1,000,000 ceiling and a $2,000 minimum guarantee. Offerors must submit unit prices for four processing categories across all five years. Evaluation uses lowest price technically acceptable methodology. Technical evaluation requires description of facility layout, equipment, processing capacity per business day and week, cold-storage capacity with temperature controls, and anticipated turnaround time; failure to address any element renders the quotation unacceptable. Past performance will be rated acceptable, neutral, or unacceptable. Service Contract Labor Standards wage requirements apply: $19.09 per hour monetary wage and $5.55 per hour fringe benefits for meat cutters. NAICS code is 311612 (Meat Processed from Carcasses). Questions are due July 20 at 4:00 PM MST to samuel.lopez@usda.gov. Offers must remain firm for 90 calendar days.