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Meeting Date:
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1/24/2019 - 6:30 PM
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Category:
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Report of the Committee on Accountability, Finance, and Personnel
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Type:
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Action
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Subject:
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13. Action on a Request for Authorization to Enter into Blanket Contracts with 20 Food Vendors to Provide Bulk Commodities
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Strategic Plan Compatibility Statement:
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Goal 3 Effective and Efficient Operations
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Attachments
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Overview of Action on a Request for Authorization to Enter into Blanket Contracts with 20 Food Vendors to Provide Bulk Commodities: Proposed Contracts and Supporting Documents
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File Attachment:
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Background:
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The Administration is requesting authorization to enter into blanket contracts with 20 separate food manufacturers for provision of directly-diverted bulk commodities. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) makes such bulk commodities available to eligible recipients through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Direct diversion processing is a USDA Foods Program which was established to support American agriculture and to provide nutrition assistance to children and families who need it. USDA Foods are distributed to nutrition assistance programs that service children such as school meal programs. Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) receives USDA foods through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) which has select direct diversion processing for receiving finished end-products. Direct diversion processing is the process of sending bulk raw USDA foods directly to selected processors to process into finished end-products. With this option, the district is directly responsible for selecting their processors and choosing the finished end-products through a procurement process.
The Department of Nutrition Services (DNS) has chosen to have the bulk commodities manufactured into designated end products for ultimate consumption across the District in meals by MPS students. Each manufacturer is approved by the USDA and DPI as such a commodity processer. Each manufacturer works directly with MPS’s Prime Vendor, Sysco Eastern Wisconsin LLC (“Sysco”) on ordering, processing and delivery of the products.
These manufacturers were chosen pursuant to RFB 5768, which closed on December 10, 2018, and sought responsive and responsible respondents among those commodity processers approved by the USDA and DPI. Each contract will run from July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020 (the “Initial Term”), with the option to extend up to four additional one-year terms if certain performance metrics incorporated into the blanket contract are met.
Estimated total amounts are not offered for each contract. All payments to these manufacturers are made through the Prime Vendor, Sysco, and reflected in the amount of that contract.
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Fiscal Impact Statement:
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This item authorizes expenditures as indicated in the attachments.
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Implementation and Assessment Plan
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Upon approval by the Board, the contracts will begin as indicated in the attachments.
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Recommendation:
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Your Committee recommends that the Board authorize the professional services contracts as set forth in the attachments to this item.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Jacqueline M. Mann, Ph.D. - Board Clerk/Chief Officer
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