Market Ready Grocery Items for Oahu
Updated
Sources Sought from the Defense Logistics Agency, for work in JBPHH, Hawaii. Due Nov 6, 2026, 8:00 AM (UTC-10), 14 days left.
| Solicitation number | SPE302-27-SS-0001 |
|---|---|
| Agency | Defense Logistics Agency |
| Office | DLA Troop Support Indo-Pacific |
| Notice type | Sources Sought |
| Set-aside | Small business |
| Trade (NAICS) | All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (311999) |
| Product or service code | 8950 |
| Place of performance | JBPHH, Hawaii |
| Posted | Oct 22, 2026 |
| Response deadline | Nov 6, 2026, 8:00 AM (UTC-10) (14 days left) |
| Add the deadline to | Google Calendar · Apple / Outlook (.ics) |
Official notice and attachments
Description
This is a Request for Information (“RFI”). DLA Troop Support (“Agency”) Pacific, Procurement Office-Hawaii is interested in comments and feedback regarding the Agency’s full line of Market Ready Grocery Items that include to the Department of Defense (“DoD”) & Non-DoD customers on the Island of Oahu. There is no solicitation available at this time.
Requests for a solicitation will not receive any response. The Government will not pay for any information received in response to the RFI, nor will the Government compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing the information provided to the government. This RFI does not constitute a commitment from the Government and any information provided in response to this market survey will be used for informational purposes only and will not be released.
Any proprietary information submitted will be protected if appropriately marked. Please note that by responding to the Agency’s request, a potential offeror is not promised any future business with the Government. It is the responsibility of the potential offerors to monitor SAM.gov for additional information pertaining to this RFI.
Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future solicitation. The sole purpose of this RFI is to conduct market research to assist the Agency in crafting an appropriate solicitation in the future. Background Information: The Agency intends to issue a solicitation and ultimately enter into a Simplified Indefinite-Delivery Contract(s) (“SIDC”) with a commercial firm(s) to supply a full-line of Perishable & Non-Perishable Grocery items to DoD and Non-DoD Customers on the Island of Oahu.
Specific quality requirements per item are included in the Schedule of Items (Attachment 1). When proposing in response to any future solicitation, failure to propose the specified quality requirement per item as identified in Attachment 1 may render an offeror’s proposal technically unacceptable. If the item’s description in Attachment 1 does not provide a specific quality grade, the minimum quality trade that is required to meet the terms of any future Solicitation is USDA Grade A or better quality.
After solicitating, the Agency intends to make one award. Offerors are required to propose on all items in the solicitations Schedule of Items. 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 future solicitation, each offeror shall submit its Most Competitive Proposal. Said proposal shall be responsive to all of the Solicitation’s requirements and free from any deficiencies. Submissions for RFI: Please see the attachments:
- Schedule of Items and
- Delivery Locations.
If interested, we strongly encourage submitting a completed Market Research Survey. We appreciate and thank you in advance for any feedback. Your responses regarding this RFI are requested back by the close of business on Friday, November 6, 2026.
Please respond via email to the following address: Wendi Damas, [email protected] Bradley Ah Nee, [email protected]
Contracting contact
- Wendi Damas · [email protected]
- Bradley Ah Nee · [email protected]
As published on the official notice. Ask questions in writing and before any questions deadline the notice sets.
Is your business small enough?
For NAICS 311999, a business counts as small if it has no more than 700 employees (SBA size standard). This notice is set aside, so only businesses under that size, or in the named program, can bid. SBA table, current as of Oct 15, 2026.
Companies that win this kind of work
Federal contractors paid for all other miscellaneous food manufacturing work, who also hold DLA contracts (last 12 months): possible competitors, or partners to team with.
- Coastal Pacific Food Distributors, Inc. $183.9 million in this trade
- US Foods Inc $86.8 million in this trade
- Reinhart Foodservice, LLC $69.0 million in this trade
- Ameriqual Group LLC $39.2 million in this trade
- Labatt Institutional Supply Co $38.9 million in this trade
About the buyer
The Defense Logistics Agency awarded $46.2 billion in contracts in the last 12 months; its biggest suppliers were Amerisourcebergen Drug Corp, Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. and W S Darley & Co. See what DLA is buying now.
Who can bid: Small Business set-aside
Total and partial small business set-asides are open to any business under the SBA size standard for the notice's NAICS code.
All open Small Business set-asides.
All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing contracts right now
There are 29 open government contract opportunities in this trade (NAICS 311999), 9 posted in the last 7 days; 76% are set aside for small businesses. The agencies buying the most are Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons, Defense Logistics Agency and Agricultural Marketing Service. Most of the work with a stated place is in New Hampshire, Texas and Ohio. A notice in this trade gives a median of 15 days from posting to deadline; this one gives 15 days.
All open all other miscellaneous food manufacturing contracts
Coming up in this trade
Planned contracts from the agencies' procurement forecasts, often months before a solicitation. Plans can change.
Recent awards in this trade
- The Smooth Sailing Group LLC $22,391 · Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Oct 14, 2026
- VARIES Brooklyn NY $0 · Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Oct 8, 2026
- G.E.R.J Logistic Services LLC $131,259 · Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Sep 1, 2026
- Multiple Vendors Oakdale LA $510,529 · Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Sep 1, 2026
- L.A. Foods, LLC $15,469 · Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Dec 1, 2025
From the award notices agencies publish.