Calf feed bid OCT 1 - DEC 31, 2022

The South Carolina Department of Corrections issued a procurement solicitation for livestock feed for the Wateree River Farm located in Rembert, South Carolina, during the period of October 1 through December 31, 2022. The specific procurement involves two types of feed products: 500 bags of calf starter medicated feed (50-pound bags) and 120 bags of feed grade sodium bicarbonate (50-pound bags). The calf starter feed must contain specific medicated components, including monensin at 50 grams/ton and diflubenzuron at 13.60 grams/ton, with a guaranteed minimum crude protein content of 21%. Deliveries are to be made bi-monthly, scheduled Monday through Friday, as requested by the farm manager, with all feed delivered FOB destination to the farm location. The solicitation was originally issued on September 13, 2022, with a submission deadline of September 15, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., and an award notification date of September 20, 2022. No pre-bid conference or site visit was required for this procurement. Vendors were expected to submit fixed unit prices for each line item, with extended prices calculated by multiplying quantity by unit price.

The solicitation allowed bidders to claim various procurement preferences, including South Carolina end-product preference, United States end-product preference, or South Carolina resident vendor preference, provided they met the respective statutory requirements. Vendors were required to be registered with the state prior to bid submission and needed to submit a signed cover page and page two with their offer. The procurement was issued under exemption number 7 for livestock feed, which rendered it non-protestable. Notably, the original solicitation received no responsive bids, resulting in a non-award statement issued on September 20, 2022, with an indication that a new solicitation would be published at a later date. The procurement allowed for usage fluctuations of plus or minus 25 percent during the contract period, and vendors could not enforce minimum purchase requirements. No specific award value or budget range was disclosed in the available documentation, and the solicitation did not specify set-asides for disadvantaged enterprises or restrict responses to particular types of organizations.