CRT Bid Nutrition Market Basket 2023 - 2024

The Community Renewal Team (CRT) in Hartford, Connecticut is soliciting proposals for a Nutrition Market Basket contract to supply food items for its food production facility located at 555 Windsor Street. The procurement is a competitive bid (Solicitation #847) seeking market basket items for a 12-month contract period from October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024. Vendors are required to submit three key documents: the main RFP document, a Market Basket Pricing Grid 2023-2024 Part I REQUIRED spreadsheet, and a Market Basket Pricing Grid 2023-2024 Part II ECE REQUIRED spreadsheet. The solicitation specifies free on-board (FOB) destination delivery terms, with payment terms to be specified by the vendor. The bid period is open from September 19, 2023, at 7:00 AM EDT to September 29, 2023, at 9:00 AM EDT, with proposals due by 9:00 AM EDT on the closing date. Interested vendors can direct questions to Jeanette Dunbar at CRT, who can be reached at 860-560-5161 or dunbarj@crtct.org.

The solicitation does not indicate any specific set-aside designations, disadvantaged enterprise requirements, or restrictions on the types of organizations that can respond. No incumbent vendors or current contractors are mentioned in the documentation. The solicitation is open to all vendors and does not provide a specific estimated total contract value or budget range. There are no references to existing infrastructure or technology integration requirements. The lack of line-item specifications suggests that detailed product requirements and pricing will be captured in the required pricing grid spreadsheets. The contract opportunity is specifically for the Hartford County jurisdiction within the state of Connecticut, targeting the CRT's food production facility's nutritional needs for the upcoming fiscal year.