Food, Beverage, and Paper Goods

The State of West Virginia, Division of Veterans Affairs, is soliciting bids for a contract to provide food, beverage, and paper goods to the West Virginia Veterans Nursing Facility. The contract is intended to be an open-end, continuing contract, with the vendor providing the agency with a purchase price for the contract services. The vendor must meet the mandatory requirements listed in the specifications, including providing a supply of eligible items, maintaining a distribution network, and ensuring that all staff assigned to the contract are qualified and possess the appropriate training and certifications. The vendor must also provide a dedicated contact for the agency to address concerns and have the ability to track all products previously delivered. • The contract includes a wide range of food and beverage items, including canned foods, staple groceries, dietetic foods, frozen foods, coffee, and paper goods. • The vendor must provide a pricing page with the catalog prices, units provided for catalog price, unit prices, discount percentage, discounted unit prices, and total costs. • The agency may permit the vendor to update its catalog at each renewal date, with any changes to the catalog requiring approval from the agency. • The vendor must accept orders through various methods, including wvOASIS, regular mail, facsimile, email, or other written forms of communication. • The vendor must deliver standard orders within four working days and emergency orders within one working day. • The agency will pay delivery charges on all emergency orders if the vendor invoices those delivery costs as a separate charge with the original freight bill attached to the invoice.