Performance Work Statement Nutrition Care Food Services

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

NUTRITION CARE FOOD SERVICES

1.1. GENERAL. This is a non-personal services contract to provide meals to meet the special nutritional needs of patients, service members and other customers within the hospitals of the Military Health System (MHS). Contractor’s employees are not subject, either by the contract terms or by the manner of its administration, to the supervision and control usually prevailing in relationships between the government and its employees. Such employees shall be accountable solely to the contractor who in turn is responsible to the government.
1.2. BACKGROUND. The Defense Health Agency (DHA) currently provides health care services worldwide to qualified military, family members, and retirees through a network of military treatment facilities (MTFs). Section 702 of the FY17 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) established the Defense Health Agency (DHA) as responsible for administration of the military medical treatment facilities (MTFs) starting on 1 October 2018. DHA policies and procedures do and will control operations at these MTFs as they are issued. A vital part of health care services is the delivery of nutrition care food services in these facilities primarily focused on meeting therapeutic nutritional requirements of patients. Therapeutic diets are medically prescribed by physicians as a mode of treatment for acute and chronic diseases and medical conditions.
1.3. SCOPE OF WORK. The contractor shall provide qualified labor and management necessary to perform nutrition care food management, supervisory, technical, administrative, and clerical services at locations identified at contract paragraph 1.5. This support will focus primarily on the following areas: dining facility management functions, therapeutic food preparation, patient tray assembly and delivery service, Registered Dietitian therapeutic nutrition training, facility sanitation, janitorial duties as it relates to the services being provided, and the associated logistics analysis and management functions in support of the Nutrition Care Divisions at each location.
1.3.1. The contractor shall provide patient food services and non-patient food services. This includes but not limited to assisting with requisitioning (eg, identifying needed items), receiving, storing, preparing, and serving of food within dining room, patient rooms, and Grab and Gos. In addition, non-food services support, which includes: training (Section 5.7.7), cash collection,