School Nutrition Services

The Kingsport City Schools nutrition program in Kingsport, Tennessee, requires specific kitchen equipment and food transport supplies to support its daily foodservice operations. The agency is seeking to procure clear one-gallon beverage pitchers with lids and handles, twelve-inch NSF-certified serrated slicer knives with high-carbon steel blades and polypropylene handles, and heavy-duty black nylon top-loading food delivery bags measuring approximately twenty-one inches by fourteen inches by seventeen inches for hot or cold transport. Additionally, the agency requires one-third size stainless steel steam table pans that are four inches deep and twenty-four-inch NSF-certified stainless steel whisks. Bidders must be organizations based in the United States, and all contracted work and delivery must occur onsite in Kingsport, Tennessee. The agency is establishing a contract period of one year for these nutrition services and supplies. The evaluation will focus on the bidder's ability to provide the specified brand-name items or their exact functional equivalents, such as Dexter Russell knives, Cambro delivery bags, Vollrath steam table pans, and Winco whisks. The agency is currently looking for proposals and has not disclosed a specific budget limit for this procurement.