Prime Vendor support for customers in the Northern New England area (Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont) for full-line of food and beverage items

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support Subsistence Directorate intends to issue a solicitation for Subsistence Prime Vendor (SPV) support for the Northern New England region (Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont).

Requirements for SPV support will include the delivery various quantities of subsistence items from the 8900 federal supply group or commercial equivalents.  The contractor will be required to make delivery on a "just in time" basis.  The delivery of items will be expected to begin no later than 120 days after the date of award.   Offerors MUST be able to interface with the Government’s established transaction package and support Electronic Data Interchange transaction sets listed in the solicitation. 

The resultant contract will be Fixed-Price subject to Economic Price Adjustments (EPA).  The maximum dollar value of this procurement is $9,600,000.00.  The effective period of the contract will be from the award date up to 48 months, consisting of a base period of twenty-four (24) months, inclusive of up to a 120 day implementation period, followed by one (1) twenty four (24) month option period.

The acquisition will use full and open competitive procedures and will be issued on an unrestricted basis.  The proposals received in response to this solicitation will be evaluated utilizing Lowest Price Technically Acceptable procedures and a contract will be awarded based on that criteria.  Alternate items will be considered/evaluated.

The Request for Proposal (RFP) will be posted on the DLA BSM DIBBS website, https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/ as RFP # SPE300-21-R-0003. This solicitation is scheduled to be posted in May 2021.