RFI for Pre-Packaged Commercial Meals (New Madrif Fault)

FBO Gov ^ | 1/20/2011

[FromLori]

Solicitation Number: HSFEHQ-11-R-Meals Notice Type: Sources Sought Synopsis: Added: Jan 20, 2011 11:54 am The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) procures and stores pre-packaged commercial meals to support readiness capability for immediate distribution to disaster survivors routinely. The purpose of this Request for Information is to identify sources of supply for meals in support of disaster relief efforts based on a catastrophic disaster event within the New Madrid Fault System for a survivor population of 7M to be utilized for the sustainment of life during a 10-day period of operations.

FEMA is considering the following specifications (14M meals per day): - Serving Size - 12 ounce (entree not to exceed 480 calorie count); - Maximum calories - 1200 and/or 1165 per meal; - Protein parameters - 29g-37g kit; - Trans Fat - 0; - Saturated Fat - 13 grams (9 calories per gram); - Total Fat - 47 grams (less than 10% calories); - Maximum sodium - 800-930 mg;

Requested Menus to include snacks (i.e. fruit mix, candy, chocolate/peanut butter squeezers, drink mix, condiments, and utensils). All meals/kits must have 36 months of remaining shelf life upon delivery. Packaging should be environmentally friendly.

- Homestyle Chicken Noodles - Potatoes - Vegetarian Pasta - Green Pepper Steak w/Rice - BBQ sauce w/Beef and diced - Chicken w/Rice and Beans - Chicken Pasta

The following questions are put forward to interested parties:

1. Please specify the type of organization responding to the questions (i.e. small business, large business, industry association, etc.) If a small business, please specify all Small Business Administration socioeconomic programs under which your organization qualifies.

2. Does your organization have a product available that meets all the specifications above? If the answer is "Yes:" What is the country of origin? If the answer is "No:" (a) Can your organization produce such a product? (b) What would be the product lead time? (c) What country are the manufacturing plants located in?

3. Can your organization delivery the product to a specified location within a 24 hour period

4. Please provide an implementation plan for critical delivery orders and delivery surge orders.

5. What states do you already have contracts in place with to provide these types of products?

6. Please detail the type of meals and quantities you can provide for each day following a disaster.

7. Please provide alternatives to the meal specifications that your organization can provide.

8. What type of delivery schedule would your organization recommend for the meals?

9. Does your organization have the capabilities to deliver products directly to FEMA's CONUS Distributions Centers?

10. Can your organization track deliveries from point of origin to point of delivery?

11. What is your lead time for delivery once FEMA has placed an order?

Interested parties may also provide brochures, web links, or other literature about their cots available for the specified users. Responses to this RFI are not considered offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract.

Vendors are encouraged to ask the Government questions regarding this potential requirement. Questions must be submitted in writing to Julieann L. Phillips at julieann.phillips@dhs.gov not later than 2:00PM, 26 January 2011 to be answered. Responses to questions will be provided not later than 2:00PM, 03 February 2011. Request for Information closing date is 03 February 2011.

Contracting Office Address: 500 C Street SW Patriots Plaza -- 5th Floor Washington, District of Columbia 20472 Primary Point of Contact.: Julieann L. Phillips, CONTRACTING OFFICER Julieann.phillips@dhs.gov Phone: 202-646-3234 Fax: 202.646.1765

[FromLori]

Michio Kaku Warns the World Citizens of Potential Mega Earthquake

http://coupmedia.org/earthquakes/michio-kaku-warns-the-world-citizens-of-potential-mega-earthquake-1901

[FromLori]

Ugh typo should be New Madrid Fault

[OCC]

I feel better there is a 0% trans fat requirement.

[DBrow]

At least they are looking ahead.

[Paladin2]

I think Chuck Wagon Foods has gone out of business. No more bolton biscuits.

(Junk food is the likely cause of a Midrif Fault.)

[al44]

I saw pre-packaged commercial meals and thought midriff fault!

[Paladin2]

The B4 Midriff Fault situation:

[Farmer Dean]

“Junk food is the likely cause of a Mdrif Fault.”
Also affectionately known as Muffin Top.

[Paladin2]

[Islander7]

"In our life time, we could very well see one of these cities destroyed," Kaku said. "Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexico City, Tehran, Tokyo."

I vote for Tehran.

[barb-tex]

After the Big one on the New Madrid Fault the Mississippi is river is to be 300 miles wide. That should lower the sea level caused by all this global warming we keep hearing about.
Unfortunately New Madrid MO is only 20 miles from Cape Giradeau El Rushbo’s home town BTW can we expect the big one soon?

[Coldwater Creek]

OMG, I live 11 miles east of the Missisippi.

[SumProVita]

Keep an eye on it:

http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html

[SumProVita]

More:

http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word/6500

http://www.scchealth.org/docs/ems/docs/prepare/newmadrid.html

[To Hell With Poverty]

After the Big one on the New Madrid Fault the Mississippi is river is to be 300 miles wide

Up here in the Ozarks, near Bentonville, Arkansas, I'll be looking forward to the new island nation of Waltonia.

[barb-tex]

South LA, lower ETX. Much of AL won’t have to worry about flooding caused by GW.

[JRios1968]

Good thing it’s for the New Madrif Fault...I’m still worried about the New Madrid one...

[Whenifhow]

Since the original post these other requests have been found:

Link to RFI for Emergency Blankets:

http://goo.gl/pGTyX

Link to RFI for Under Water Bodybags:

http://goo.gl/lsm8k

The gov is requesting bids on 210 million liters of water

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=62cccef98e5833104bddc6956bf68170&tab=core&_cview=0

Now they want gas? Yep. (see below)

The following info is from Urban survival.

http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm

Quake Planning

Now they want gas? Yep. Government’s got a presolicitation notice out for 24-thousand gallons of gasoline and 135,000 gallons of diesel in each state for NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TX, and LA. That’s 1.272 million gallons they’re wondering about; how much to commit to 24-hour delivery in each state.

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=ed2fb661961ec48159a24635774679bc&tab=core&_cview=0

File under lining up ducks in order not to get Katrina’ed or Rita’ed?

A couple of other items on the pending Midwest quake front. One is this discussion in December on the FEMA blog about contingency planning.

http://blog.fema.gov/2010/12/70-earthquake-in-midwest-planning-for.html

The other is possible impact of such a quake which the University of Illinois has done a lot of work on including hundreds of pages of planning docs here.

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/14810

The most useful one is the single volume piece here which outlines the disaster scenarios which should give you a good idea where the 7-million planning number came from.

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/14810/ImpactofNewMadridSeismicZoneEarthquakeso%20theCentral%20USAVol1.pdf?sequence=3

[Quix]

THANKS MUCH.

Am at school and my list here is not updated. So I won’t ping the END TIMES LIST just yet.