RTI Full Food Service (FFS)

Pre-Solicitation Notice

Full Food Service

The intent of this notice is to notify potential offerors that the United States Property and Fiscal Office for Florida (USPFO-FL) intends to issue solicitation W911YN25RA008 on the System for Award Management (SAM) to perform Full Food Service (FFS) operations at the Regional Training Institute (RTI) at Camp Blanding. This announcement serves as the advance notice for this requirement. Responses to this synopsis are not required.

Based on interest received from small businesses via a Sources Sought Notice that was issued in May, this action will be a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business set aside.

Randolph-Sheppard Act (RSA) Compliance: This solicitation is subject to exercise of the priority policy regarding qualified State Licensing Agencies (SLA) for the Blind in accordance with the RSA. An offer determined “Technically Acceptable” from a qualified SLA will receive priority in accordance with the RSA and Army Regulation 210-25. Once the Contracting Officer determines that the SLA/blind vendor’s proposal should be included in the competitive range, the award will be made to the SLA/blind vendor unless (1) under the SLA/blind vendor’s proposal it cannot provide food service at a comparable cost and of comparable high quality as available from other providers and (2) the Department of Education concurs in the decision. This notice is not designed to discourage competition from small business concerns not eligible for the preference. This merely serves as notice that the required priority will be applied should an offer determined to be “Technically Acceptable” determined to be in the competitive range, be received from a qualified SLA. The SLA for Florida, Department of Services for the Blind, has expressed an interest in this requirement.

Description of Requirement: The contractor will perform food service requirements to meet FFS services and remote site feeding requirements at designated training areas. The Contractor shall provide quality services in support of the schoolhouse food service program supporting the warfighter with flexible, efficient, and cost-effective services through management innovations and use of industry best practices, where applicable, while ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations. The contractor shall provide all supervision, labor, personnel, equipment, materials and supplies, except Government Furnished Property (GFP), to perform FFS Operations for approximately 2,000 students annually. This will be a base year plus four option years IDIQ award.

The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 722310 with a Small Business Size Standard of $47M. The Product Service Code (PSC) is M1FD.

The solicitation, as well as all notices and amendments, will be posted to the Government Point of Entry located at https://sam.gov On or After 11 July 2025. The closing date and time for submission of offers will be contained in the solicitation package. Potential offerors are responsible for monitoring this procurement for the release of the solicitation package and any other pertinent information and for downloading their own copy of the solicitation package. All notifications and amendments will be disseminated in the same manner as the solicitation.

All contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) or their proposal will not be considered. Contractors can obtain further information on the System for Award Management (SAM) at web site https://www.sam.gov.