Subsistence Items for Thailand

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support Indo-Pacific intends to issue a solicitation for food and beverage items support for military customers located throughout the Thailand region.

The DLA Troop Support Indo-Pacific intends to establish a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) with a full line food distributor who will act as a Subsistence Vendor responsible for the supply and delivery of semi-perishable and perishable food items. The vendor must be capable of supplying all chilled products, semi-perishable food products, frozen fish, meat and poultry, other frozen foods (i.e. fruits, vegetables, prepared foods, etc.) , dairy and ice cream products, fresh band frozen bakery products, beverages and juices, and fresh fruits and vegetables. The period of peformance is from award effective date to 1 year after award effective date. The Government reserves the right to extend this BPA for up to five (5) years.

The Government is only obligated to the extent of authorized purchase actually made under this BPA. Delivery of unauthorized products shall be at the risk of and the sole responsibility of the SPV and may result in non-payment, as well as cancellation of this BPA.

Individual purchases of subsistence items shall not exceed $150,000 per order due to Berry Amendment.

The acquisition will use full and open competitive procedures and will be issued on an unrestricted basis. The proposals received in response to this solicitation will be evaluated utilizing Lowest Price Technically Acceptalbe (LPTA) and a BPA will be awarded based on this criteria.

Basis for Award: Under LPTA all factors other than cost or price are evaluated on an "acceptable" or "unacceptable" basis. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other non-price factors considered. The following technical and price factors shall be used to evaluate offers: