Paper, Goods, Chemicals, and Supplies 26-27

The City of New Haven Board of Education Food Service (BOE) is soliciting bids for Paper & Supplies for the summer & school year meals program. There are approximately 224 days in the program, we serve approximately 17,500-19,000 meals per day.

In soliciting proposals, it is the City’s intent to establish a vendor(s) to improve services, expedite deliveries, streamline paperwork, reduce administrative costs and contain product costs. To achieve these goals, it will also be necessary to maintain continuity of supply for its food service needs, as changing brands could potentially introduce unnecessary hardships on our student customers and thereby jeopardize the integrity of our programs. Therefore, the successful bidder must be both capable and willing to purchase the brands as specified and from a third-party producer, if requested by the City. The City will reserve the right to utilize secondary suppliers, if the City determines that doing so would be in the City’s best interest.

The City of New Haven reserves the right to award bids to multiple vendors or any variation deemed appropriate by the City.