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

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     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.

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