Request for Information (RFI) for Fresh Bread & Bakery Products support for DoW Troop Customers in El Paso, TX Zone
Contact and place of performance
Alexis Adams
El Paso, TX
USA
Request for Information (RFI) for Fresh Bread & Bakery Products support for DoW Troop Customers in El Paso, TX Zone. Dear Valued Suppliers: This is a Request for Information (“RFI”). DLA Troop Support’s (“Agency”) Subsistence and Market Fresh Program is interested in comments and feedback regarding the Agency’s fresh Bread and Bakery items to the Department of War (DoW) T...
View moreBackground: The Agency intends to issue a solicitation and ultimately enter into one (1) indefinite quantity contract(s) (“IQC”) with a commercial firm(s) to supply Fresh Bread and Bakery products to military customers in the El Paso, TX Zone.
Commercial standards should be used to maintain temperatures appropriate for the individual items.
When proposing in response to a solicitation, failure to propose the specified quality requirement per item as identified above may render an offeror’s proposal technically unacceptable. This will consist of One group of DoW/Troop Customers in El Paso, TX Zone.
Group 1: El Paso, TX Troop Customers
After soliciting, the Agency intends to make one award per group. Offerors are required to propose on all items in the Schedule of Items for each Group which it offers. Failure to do so may result in a proposal being deemed technically unacceptable and therefore excluded from further consideration for award. Because the Contracting Officer is not obligated to initiate negotiations, when proposing to the solicitation each offeror shall submit its most competitive proposal for each Group it has chosen to propose on. Said proposal shall be responsive to all the Solicitation’s requirements and free from any deficiencies.
The contract period of performance will start in October 2026. If interested, we strongly encourage you to respond using the attached questionnaire. We appreciate and thank you in advance for any feedback. Your responses regarding this solicitation are requested back by the close of business on June 8, 2026 at 7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Please respond via e-mail to the following addresses: Alexis Adams, Contracting Specialist, [email protected]; and Jennifer DeLange, Contracting Officer, [email protected]
*****PLEASE NOTE: You are only required to send back the completed PDF file “Market Research Vendor Survey”
The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, under the Subsistence and Market Fresh Program, is conducting market research to identify commercial firms capable of providing fresh bread and bakery products to Department of War troop customers in the El Paso, Texas, zone. This Request for Information supports the agency’s intent to eventually issue a solicitation for one indefinite quantity contract. The performance period for the resulting contract is expected to begin in October 2026. This requirement is classified under NAICS 311812 Commercial Bakeries and PSC 8920 Bakery and Cereal Products.
The scope of work involves supplying a single group of military customers in the El Paso, Texas, area. Prospective contractors must be able to maintain commercial temperature standards for individual bakery items and provide all products listed in the designated schedule of items. The agency intends to make one award for the group. For this market research phase, the agency has provided three attachments: a delivery schedule, a schedule of items, and a market research survey.
Responses to this sources sought notice must be submitted by June 8, 2026, at 7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time via email to Alexis Adams and Jennifer DeLange. Submissions are limited to the completed vendor survey document provided with the notice. Information gathered through this process will assist the government in developing a future solicitation and will not result in an immediate contract award. All performance will take place in El Paso, Texas, under solicitation number SPE30026R0040.
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