Retail Food Safety Regulatory Association Collaboration Services

The Food and Drug Administration in Washington, DC is seeking a vendor to provide retail food safety regulatory association collaboration services. The agency is trying to solve the problem of inconsistent food safety standards and practices across different jurisdictions by strengthening national regulatory collaboration. This initiative aims to reduce foodborne illness by improving local, state, and national regulatory consistency and effectiveness. The scope of work requires the selected vendor to maintain and expand the strategy to support national Food Code adoption. The vendor must increase the use of risk-based inspections, intervention strategies, and the national voluntary retail food regulatory program standards. Additionally, the project covers improving foodborne outbreak investigation methods and increasing the number of retail food establishments with well-developed food safety management systems that use active managerial control. The agency also requires a strategy to enhance communication and better catalog and present information on these detailed efforts. Eligibility is limited to onshore organizations based in the United States. The agency requires the performance of the work to be conducted offsite. The agency is looking for proposals to determine the budget, and specific evaluation criteria and key dates are not provided in the source materials.