Dry Beans for use in Domestic Food Assistance Programs.
Closed Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- 12-3J14-25-B-0188
- Agency
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Agricultural Marketing Service
Department of Agriculture
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 311999 All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing
- PSC
- 8915 Fruits And Vegetables
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking a procurement contract for dry edible beans to be used in domestic food assistance programs, including the National School Lunch Program. The solicitation (12-3J14-25-B-0188) calls for various bean varieties such as blackeye, baby lima, great northern, pinto, light red kidney, lentils, and split pea green beans. Potential contractors must meet AMS vendor qualification requirements established under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 9.2, with vendor qualification contacts available at newvendor@usda.gov. The contract will be firm-fixed-price, with bids to be submitted electronically through the USDA Web Based Supply Chain Management (WBSCM) system, and all submissions must be exclusively from products grown, processed, and prepared in the United States. The key deadline for this solicitation is February 7, 2025, at 3:00 PM Central Time, with anticipated award announcements by February 21, 2025.
The solicitation is 100% small business set-aside, with a specific 10% Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) set-aside for great northern beans, pinto beans, and lentils. Quantities range from 3,360 cases for split pea green beans to 85,680 cases for pinto beans, with deliveries scheduled between April 1, 2025, and June 30, 2025. Delivery locations will span multiple states, including California, Texas, New York, and Florida, on an FOB destination basis. New contractors or existing contractors bidding on new products will be subject to a probationary period limiting initial awards to 10 truckloads per product until successful delivery of at least 5 truckloads is demonstrated. The packaging and container components will be the only portion subject to World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement and Free Trade Agreements guidelines, as specified in the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
Notice text
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)-Commodity Procurement Program (CPP) intends to issue a solicitation for procurement of the products listed in the attached solicitation for domestic food assistance programs. Deliveries are to various locations in the United States on an FOB origin basis (see solicitation). The solicitation may include various small business set-asides pursuant to the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631, et seq.). This may include partial or total small business set-asides, service-disabled veteran-owned (SDVO) set-asides, quantities reserved for 8(a) and AbilityOne firms, and price evaluation preferences for qualified HUBZone small businesses.
The solicitation is expected to be available on or after today and will be available electronically through USDA Web Based Supply Chain Management (WBSCM) located at https://portal.wbscm.usda.gov/publicprocurement and through a link to the aforementioned website in the documents attached to the solicitation notice on Contract Opportunities website. A hard copy of the solicitation will not be available for the acquisition. All future information regarding this acquisition, including solicitation amendments and award notices, will be published through WBSCM and Contract Opportunities website (https://sam.gov). Interested parties shall be responsible for ensuring that they have the most up-to-date information about this acquisition. The anticipated date of receipt for offers is listed above under “General Information.” The contract type will be firm-fixed-price.
Pursuant to Agricultural Acquisition Regulation (AGAR), 470-103(b), commodities and the products of agricultural commodities acquired under this contract must be a product of the United States and shall be considered to be such a product if it is grown, processed, and otherwise prepared for sale or distribution exclusively in the United States. Packaging and container components under this acquisition will be the only portion subject to the World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement (WTO) (GPA), and Free Trade Agreements (FTA), as addressed by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), clause 52.225-5. Complete details of the commodity and packaging requirements are available through the attached documents. AMS’s solicitation (when published) will specify the pack, sizes, quantities, and required delivery schedules.
To be eligible to submit offers, potential contractors must meet the AMS vendor qualification requirements established in accordance with FAR Subpart 9.2. The AMS main contacts for vendor qualification requirements are Andrea Lang, who can be reached at (202) 720-4237 and Diana Dau David who can be reached at (202)-378-1075, or by email at newvendor@usda.gov . Details of these requirements and contact information are available online at: http://www.ams.usda.gov/selling-food.
Once qualification requirements have been met, access to WBSCM will be provided. Bids, modifications, withdrawals of bids, and price adjustments shall be submitted using this system. Submission of the above by any means other than WBSCM will be determined nonresponsive.
The attached solicitation should be read in conjunction with contract terms and conditions contained in the Master Solicitation for Commodity Procurements – Domestic Programs (MSCP-D) available on the AMS website at https://www.ams.usda.gov/selling-food/solicitations. Commodity specifications documents are referenced in the solicitation and can be accessed online at https://www.ams.usda.gov/selling-food/product-specs.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
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| 12-3J14-25-B-0188.pdf |
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