WA_PY113 Poultry Programs Date Issued: Jan. 9, 2004 FROZEN COOKED DICED CHICKEN, INVITATION NO. 10, ANNOUNCEMENT PY-273 The U.S. Department of Agriculture invites offers to sell frozen cooked diced chicken meat produced from fowl as indicated below and per the Announcement for use in school lunch and other domestic food nutrition assistance programs. Offers are due by 12 noon, Central Time, Tuesday, Jan. 20 (due to the holiday on Monday for Federal employees). Acceptances will be announced by midnight, Friday, Jan. 23. Deliveries are to be made from March 1 to March 15. Offers will be invited from approved suppliers for frozen cooked diced chicken meat, produced from ready-to-cook fowl (a class of mature female chickens), packed in four 10-pound (4.54 kg) packages to a net weight of 40 pounds (18.14 kg) in each shipping container. A purchase unit will consist of 1,000 shipping containers totaling 40,000 pounds (18,144 kg). All offers must be submitted electronically through the Domestic Electronic Bid Entry System (DEBES) website at https://pcsd.usda.gov:3077/mdbc1000.exe?. Offers submitted by any means other than DEBES will be considered nonresponsive. Bidders are cautioned to bid only quantities they can reasonably expect to produce and deliver in accordance with the contract. Note that some item numbers and the associated quantities have been set-aside for small business concerns and are indicated by a single asterisk. Shipping instructions will indicate quantity to be delivered to each point. Inquiries about Announcement PY-273, Appendix-1, the Commodity Specification for Frozen Cooked Diced Chicken dated July 2003, or this Invitation should be directed to the Contracting Officer, USDA/AMS/Poultry Programs, Commodity Procurement Branch STOP 0260, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, D.C. 20250, telephone (202) 720-7693. An electronic version of this Invitation can be obtained through the World Wide Web via the Commodity Procurement Home Page at http://www.ams.usda.gov/cp. Purchases of the commodities listed below will be made on a delivered basis, subject to Announcement PY-273, to the listed locations. Destination quantities are estimates and are subject to adjustment based on offerings, changes in recipient need, market conditions, and program operations. Delivery by mechanically refrigerated trucks or railcars is optional to the contractor, except for those destination(s) which specify delivery by truck only or rail only. ANNOUNCEMENT : PY273 INVITATION : 010 COMM GROUP : 22 CHICKEN, FROZEN COMM TYPE : 21 CHICKEN, DICED, FROZEN PACK SIZE : 40 40 LB CTN ITEM DESTINATION TRANS QUANTITY NO CITY ST RESTR (LBS) ---- --------------- -- ---------- -------- DELIVERY PERIOD 03/01/04 - 03/15/04 001 NATICK MA TRUCK ONLY 40,000 * 002 NATICK MA TRUCK ONLY 20,000 SPRINGFIELD MA TRUCK ONLY 60,000 003 CONCORD NH TRUCK ONLY 40,000 * 004 JOHNSON CITY TN TRUCK ONLY 5,000 MADISON HEIGHTS VA TRUCK ONLY 35,000 005 ASHLAND VA TRUCK ONLY 10,735 * MADISON HEIGHTS VA TRUCK ONLY 29,265 * 006 DANVILLE VA TRUCK ONLY 14,563 SUFFOLK VA TRUCK ONLY 25,437 007 AMERICUS GA TRUCK ONLY 30,000 * DOUGLAS GA TRUCK ONLY 10,000 * 008 NEWPORT MN 120,000 009 EAU CLAIRE WI 80,000 010 MADISON WI 120,000 011 MILWAUKEE WI TRUCK ONLY 40,000 012 ALBUQUERQUE NM 120,000 013 EARLY TX TRUCK ONLY 4,000 * SAN ANTONIO TX TRUCK ONLY 36,000 * 014 GRAND PRAIRIE TX TRUCK ONLY 20,000 HOUSTON TX TRUCK ONLY 20,000 015 CLEARFIELD UT TRUCK ONLY 40,000 * 016 CLEARFIELD UT TRUCK ONLY 9,600 LINDON UT TRUCK ONLY 15,720 OGDEN UT TRUCK ONLY 14,680 017 POMONA CA TRUCK ONLY 40,000 * 018 FOREST GROVE OR 40,000 ANNOUNCEMENT : PY273 INVITATION : 010 COMM GROUP : 22 CHICKEN, FROZEN COMM TYPE : 21 CHICKEN, DICED, FROZEN PACK SIZE : 40 40 LB CTN ITEM DESTINATION TRANS QUANTITY NO CITY ST RESTR (LBS) ---- --------------- -- ---------- -------- 019 PUYALLUP WA 40,000 020 PUYALLUP WA TRUCK ONLY 22,000 SPOKANE WA TRUCK ONLY 18,000 TOTAL QUANTITY FOR COMMODITY TYPE 1,120,000 TOTAL QUANTITY FOR INVITATION 1,120,000 Dennis J. Pearson Contracting Officer The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, or marital or family status. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA's TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TDD). To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 14th and Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (202) 720-5964 (voice and TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. - - - - -