BIA-Navajo Area Office, Branch of Contracts and Property Management, P.O. Box 1060, Gallup, New Mexico 87305-1060

S -- NAVAJO AREA-WIDE FOOD SERVICES SOL N00-97-01 DUE 032295 POC Contact Victoria Joe, (505) 863-8262 Direct delivery of Food Services, including Supply, Delivery, Storage, Menu Development, Training for Inventory and Supply Management, Dietitian in Food preparation. Services to be provided by a single contractor to Fifty (50) schools in the Bureau of Indian Affairs at various locations in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Start date for contract performance will be July 1, 1996. Consideration for contract will be limited to vendors located within geographical borders of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. Offers will be evaluated on the basis of the following; Quality and provision of the vendor's dietitian and knowledgeable Food Specialist to help Agency(s) and School(s) in building and altering their menus to make them as cost efficient and nutritious as possible and to furnish the necessary recipes and guidance to accomplish this task, availability of necessary equipment, buildings, ripening rooms, temperature controlled storage rooms, temperature controlled trucks with adequate refrigeration and necessary sanitation people within their own organization to maintain a sanitary environment while storing such food products, ability and sufficient experience in full-service food contracts (past performance). Requirements under this contract: provisions of quality products, acceptable in working experience with U.S.D.A. and determining eligible distribution of U.S.D.A. food and meeting U.S.D.A. Food Service/Commodity Food regulations and program requirements, demonstrate vendor's system to insure that the products ordered will be delivered in total as the schools are remote enough that they cannot and will not tolerate out-of-stock items, ability to work with Cook Foreman/Kitchen Manager, Principals and Agency COR(s) as a group and individually with regards to training to better use their food items to achieve better efficiency and economy, adequacy, sufficiency, viable training plans to issue that local school personnel are able to prepare orders, inventory, manage, utilize and inspect all food and food service supplies in as efficient manner. The food presented to students will be attactive, palatable and nutritious, this is not a set-aside. No joint ventures will be allowed. Request For Proposal closes at 4:00 p.m. (local time), April 30, 1996. (0086)

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