SPE300-26-R-0013 - Fresh Bread and Bakery for DoD Troop Customers in the Georgia Zone

The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence is soliciting proposals for the procurement of fresh bread and bakery products to supply Department of Defense troop customers across military installations in Georgia. Offerors must be current commercial distributors of bread and bakery items capable of providing third-party warehouse audits such as AIB certifications or state and federal sanitation inspections, and all products must comply with the Berry Amendment domestic production requirement. The solicitation emphasizes a 97% fill rate requirement, utilization of STORES electronic ordering with EDI capabilities, and products must be sourced from sanitarily approved establishments listed in the U.S. Army Public Health Command Worldwide Directory. The Government intends to evaluate offers and award a contract without discussions with offerors, meaning initial proposals should contain the offeror's best pricing and technical terms, though the Contracting Officer reserves the right to conduct discussions if necessary. The proposal due date is March 19, 2026, at 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, with solicitation documents available on the DLA Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS) at https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil and https://www.sam.gov.

This is an unrestricted acquisition with a HUBZone evaluation preference offering a 10% price preference, and no set-aside designations have been designated. The contract will be issued as a firm-fixed price Indefinite Quantity Contract with two pricing tiers covering two geographic groups: Group 1 at Fort Benning with an estimated Tier 1 value of $5,000,000 and a three-year total of $7,500,000, and Group 2 at Fort Gordon and Fort Stewart with a Tier 1 estimate of $700,000 and a three-year total of $1,050,000, with a guaranteed minimum of $285,000 per group and a maximum contract value of $21,375,000 total. The contract period runs from April 5, 2026, to April 7, 2029, with Tier 1 pricing in effect from April 5, 2026, to April 1, 2028, and Tier 2 pricing from April 2, 2028, to April 7, 2029. Offerors must provide pricing for 21 bread and bakery line items at Fort Benning and 17 line items at Fort Gordon and Fort Stewart, with delivery to 16 dining facilities and support locations at Fort Benning plus 17 additional locations at the other two installations. The acquisition falls under NAICS code 311812 (Commercial Bakeries) with a size standard of 1,000 employees, and place of performance is Georgia, USA.