WCSO-2027-0003 Food Bid

The Worcester County Sheriff's Office is soliciting sealed bids for the purchase and delivery of miscellaneous food supply products under solicitation WCSO-2027-0003. The procurement covers a one-year contract period from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027, with an estimated annual expenditure of $1,000,000.00. The food items are organized into two categories: dry goods (including canned applesauce, beans, tomatoes, rice, pasta, cereal, soy oil, mayonnaise, brown sugar, muffin mix, kosher and halal meals, and potato chips) and frozen products (including bagels, waffles, pancakes, turkey ham, chicken hot dogs, cheese, hamburger crumbles, chicken, deli turkey, margarine, chicken leg quarters, frozen vegetables, and fully cooked patties in various preparations). Bidders are not required to bid on every item listed, and all prices must be quoted as firm, F.O.B. Destination with no fuel, delivery, or surcharge of any type accepted. Monthly deliveries are to be made to the Worcester County Sheriff's Office warehouse unless otherwise requested. Sealed bids must be received by 10:00 AM Eastern Time on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at the Worcester Sheriff's Office Finance Department located at 5 Paul X. Tivnan Drive, West Boylston, MA 01583, with public opening and reading of bids occurring at that time. No mandatory bidders' conference is required, and award notification will be made via email following the bid opening, with an estimated contract start date of July 1, 2026.

Contractors must meet specific insurance requirements, including public liability insurance of not less than $10,000 per person and $300,000 per accident, property damage insurance of not less than $50,000 per accident and $100,000 aggregate, and workers' compensation insurance for all employees. All bidders must participate in the Commonwealth Prompt Payment Discount initiative and the Electronic Funds Transfer payment system, and must provide certificates of insurance prior to contract start. Bidders must certify compliance with non-collusion and good faith bidding requirements and guarantee all equipment and materials for one year after final inspection and acceptance. No bid bond, payment bond, or performance bond is required. The solicitation does not identify any set-aside designations for disadvantaged enterprises or restrictions on bidder eligibility, nor does it list any incumbent vendors or current contractors. The contract may be renewed by the Worcester County Sheriff's Office at the end of each contract year under the same terms and conditions unless mutually agreed upon price changes are negotiated. The Worcester Sheriff's Office reserves the right to reject any and all bids, and should a winning bidder prove unable to provide awarded items when needed, the contract will revert to the next lowest bidder.