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Q & A for CCC Fresh Potato Solicitation 2000009914 

1). USDA made changes on being an approved vendors for certain commodities, but if you 

already shipped sweet potatoes, do you need to get approval to ship all potatoes in the

category or do you need approval to ship russet potatoes? 

There are specific Audits for Sweet Potatoes and Russet Potatoes. To be awarded Russet Potatoes 

on this CCC Purchase, a USDA audit for Russet Potatoes must be in an active status.

2) Currently PO’s will be handled July-December; currently the vendor has two growing

seasons; right now, seeing historically low pricing right now that will probably run through

Labor Day, & will probably switch over to a new crop year. Question: how you know when

your PO’s when you bid are going to fall within a time frame.

This CCC Russet Potato solicitation allows Crop years 2023 and 2024. 

3) How do you know if there two sets of pricing – say you bid on California; how do the

PO’s get distributed on pricing?

When inputting pricing, whatever you submit to those States, should be applicable for all 

associated cost, shouldn’t be any differential between the two crop years. 

4) Is there one fixed price for the entire contract period?

Yes a fixed bid price per state for the entirety of the period of performance of July 1-December 

31st, 2024. 

5). Is there a reason why the Government decided to go with a new contract style this 

performance? 

This contract method best suites the government’s needs. 

6). Will these deliveries be going to households or schools? 

The food will be dispersed to various FNS household programs. 

7). Noticed there is a set-aside for Small Business, but never see a set-aside for WomenOwned Small Business, will there ever have one for that in the future? 
It is possible in the future to offer a set aside for WOSDB, but this set-aside is only possible if 2 

or more bidders fit that criteria. 

8). Are you accepting constraints or all or nothing to the States? 

Constraints are optional. 

9). Are you awarding multiple vendors to the States? 

Yes, some states will have multiple vendor awards. 

10). Is a state price required for each state? 

Vendors must submit a bid price to each state. All bid prices will be evaluated for fair and 

reasonableness. 

11) In accordance with the solicitation the delivery period is identified as July 1, 2024

through December 31, 2024. With the over abundance of the 2023 potato crop, can the

deliveries begin April 1, 2024 through December 2024? Most or at least 85% to 90 % of

the 2023 crop will be delivered or dumped by July 1, 2024.

No changes to the period of performance will be made at this time. 

12) Under the solicitation it requests that the “Offerors must submit a unit price in WBSCM

for delivery to EACH STATE, inclusive of all costs associated through final delivery.” How

can the Offeror bid on transportation costs without knowing the destination?

Bidders are advised to calculate costs to the furthest point of each state. 

13) What is the NACIS code that is applicable for this solicitation defining small business?

The NAICS code for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables is 311991 . 
14) Regarding GAP/GHP certifications, at times there could be a gap certification between

crop years. Although it would not be more than 2 weeks, there are times the harvest audits

could be postponed due to mother nature such as rain or killing schedules. This could

possibly leave a short gap between harvest reviews. Will USDA accommodate if this

occurs?

Based on previous solicitations, it is necessary for the GAP/GHP to remain active throughout the 

contract time frame. Common practice should be to reach out the inspection team months before 

the vendor’s GAP/GHP Audits are deemed inactive. 

15) The last Paragraph on page 3 states: “Destination quantities listed are estimates and

subject to adjustment based on offerings, changes in recipient needs, market condition, and

program operations”. Question: If there are changes in recipient needs such as changing

from a full load to a partial load this will impact freight costs. Will USDA consider a

change order (change in price) in the event a load is changed from a full load to a partial

load? As per the Part B document there is a guaranteed min quantity, a target quantity

and maximum qty.

USDA in partnership with our customer FNS work diligently to meet each vendors awarded 

Target volumes. Awards will be made in full trucks. Split shipments may occur which will equal 

1 full truckload. 

16) Exhibit 2: This exhibit indicates that “Bidders are required to submit a bid price for each

state to be evaluated.” The question is how does the Bidder offer or determine freight based

on a state with no location in that state identified? For example, If the Bidder bids Texas

or California, the freight will be much different depending on the location within that state.

 Again, bidders are advised to calculate associated costs to the furthest point of each state.

17) Exhibit 2: The recipient State and quantities are identified but no delivery schedule is

identified. This makes a difference since a portion of the delivery may be crop year 2023

vs. crop year 2024. Can USDA identify a delivery schedule by state? The states and

volumes identified in Exhibit 2 serve as estimates only.

We do not have exact locations nor state volumes currently. This contract type is an IDIQ which 

represents Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity. Awardees will receive an award package 

which will state the awarded minimum, target, maximum truckloads. Awardees will then be

issued purchase order allocations i.e. task orders which contain ship-to locations and the required 

delivery periods every 1-3 months. 

18) Bid Submission Checklist: This form indicates that additional plants and shipping

points can be attached. Since things can change between crop years, can USDA accept

changes of plant / shipping points during the performance of this contract?
Bidders may submit a waiver request for such changes. Bidders may also submit an additional 

plant/shipping list with their bid offer.

19) Would USDA consider setting a “fixed shipping cost” or no shipping costs for bidding 

purposes? Upon award, each bidder could get three shipping bids and submit a change 

order to adjust for freight costs accordingly. 

Awards made under this solicitation are firm-fixed prices. State pricing should encompass all 

associated costs to deliver within each state.