Dairy & Juice Products

Description

The New Haven Board of Education Food and Nutrition Department is soliciting Request for Proposals (RFP) for the delivery of dairy and juice products to summer camp, schools, and Central Kitchen locations for 2024-25 School Year. There are approximately 224 service days in the program and New Haven Food Service Food and Nutrition program serves approximately 19,000-20,000 meals per day.&nbsp;In soliciting request for proposals, it is the City&rsquo;s intent to establish a vendor or vendors with the primary objective to improve services, expedite deliveries, streamline paperwork, reduce administrative costs and contain food 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 thereby jeopardizing the integrity of our programs. Therefore, the successful responder 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&rsquo;s best interest.&nbsp;The City of New Haven reserves the right to award this request for proposal to a prime vendor or multiple vendors or any variation deemed to be in the best interest of the City.&nbsp;CONTRACT PERIODThis is a one-year contract. The contract will begin July 1, 2024 and will continue through June 30, 2025. At the sole discretion of the New Haven Public Schools, Food and Nutrition Department, any award under this request for proposal can renewed for two (2) additional one-year periods.1st Option to renew period July 1, 2025 to June 30, 20262ND Option to renew period July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027&nbsp;</stro