Food Product Supplier
The University is seeking a full line food service distributor (Contractor) as a primary supplier of to all the product categories and services referenced in this Request for Proposal (RFP) to the University.
A full line food service distributor provides the following: maintains a high quality program for warehousing and distribution to ensure that first-in, first-out principles are used; product shelf life is monitored; products are free of damage; correct products and quantities are selected and delivered timely, at the correct price, product discrepancies; complaints are resolved; corrective action is initiated, customer satisfaction is monitored; supplier FDA or DOD initiated food recalls are promptly reported; and salvaged products are not used.
The University has 24 different operations that purchase close to 2.9 million dollars of food and food service related supplies in all the applicable categories. This included approximately 2500 different items in 2009. The current distributor stocks over 9,000 items thereby offers a wide variety of products.
