Full Line Food Distribution For the New Jersey, New York and Eastern and Central Pennsylvania Areas

Note: This was previously synopsized as a Small Business Set-Aside. It will now be an unrestricted acquisition.

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support Subsistence Directorate intends to solicit for Prime Vendor support for the New Jersey, New York and Eastern and Central Pennsylvania areas, which include customers such as McGuire Air Force Base, Fort Dix and other federally funded agencies for various quantities of subsistence items from the 8900 Federal Catalog or their commercial equivalents. The total estimated dollar value of the requirement is $79,800,000.00 for Zone 1 (New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Southern New York) and $33,600,000.00 for Zone 2 (Northern New York). The items will be delivered approximately 60 days after the date of award. The effective period for the base period of the contract is from the award date up to 24 months thereafter. (Note: There will be an up to 2 month (60-day) start-up/implementation period upon award followed by a twenty two (22) month ordering period, one (1) twelve (12) month option period and one (1) twenty four (24) month option period). This is an unrestricted acquisition. Customers will be provided delivery on a "Just in Time" basis. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered by this agency. The proposals received in response to this solicitation will be evaluated using Lowest Price Technically Acceptable procedures and awarded to a Prime Vendor based on that criteria. Offers MUST be able to interface with the Government's established translation package and support Electronic Data Interchange transaction sets listed in the solicitation.  The Request for Proposal (RFP) is now posted on DLABSM DIBBS website as SPM300-13-R-0059. The website can be found at https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/. This solicitation is scheduled to close on October 16, 2013.