USDA AMS Poultry Div, PO Box 96456, Rm 3943 South, Washington, DC 20090-6456

89 -- FROZEN COOKED DICED CHICKEN SOL PY-229 POC Dennis J. Pearson, Contracting Officer, 202-720-7693 WEB: click here to download a copy of the current invitation, http://www.ams.usda.gov/poultry/cp/chicken/index.htm. E-MAIL: click here to contact the Contracting Officer, Dennis.Pearson@usda.gov. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service has announced plans to purchase frozen cooked diced chicken meat from fowl for school lunch and other domestic food nutrition assistance programs. Offers will be invited from the trade for frozen cooked diced chicken meat, produced from ready-to-cook fowl (a class of mature female chickens). Diced chicken will be packed in four 10-pound (4.54 kg) packages to a net weight of 40 pounds (18.14 kg) in each fiberboard shipping container. A purchase unit will consist of 1,000 shipping containers totaling 40,000 pounds (18,144 kg). Bids will be accepted every first and third Monday of each month until program requirements are met. The program announcement, commodity specification, and current invitation and food purchase report can be found at our website listed below. In addition, small businesses (500 employees or less) are encouraged to participate. The Agricultural Marketing Service is actively seeking small businesses, that are also manufacturers, to participate in its purchase programs. Posted 07/14/99 (W-SN353944). (0195)

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