Food Advisory Services

The Baldwinsville Central School District in Baldwinsville, New York, is seeking food advisory services to enhance its child nutrition program and transition its food service department to scratch cooking. The agency needs to expand its current meal program through a comprehensive program assessment, menu development, staff training, and equipment evaluation. The selected vendor will review current menus, recipes, and farm-to-school initiatives while developing fifteen to twenty new scratch-cooked, culturally relevant, and plant-forward recipes. The project scope requires assessing and training food service staff on central kitchen meal production to support scratch cooking, ensuring high-quality meal presentation at receiving sites. The vendor must provide hands-on training for kitchen skills, workflow efficiency, food safety, and ergonomic factors, alongside documenting new standard operating procedures. Additionally, the provider will evaluate existing equipment at the central kitchen and receiving sites to recommend any necessary upgrades for the new production methods. Eligible bidders must be onshore organizations based in the United States. The agency requires all performance of the work to take place onsite at the district facilities. Bidders must submit any questions regarding this opportunity no later than July 7, 2026, and the agency is accepting digital proposal submissions via email or online.