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Request for Information (RFI) Subsistence Prime Vendor (SPV) Support for The Hawaiian Islands

Federal · Department of Defense · Defense Logistics AgencyDue Thursday, October 15, 2026
Client
Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
RFP Number
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Posted
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Category
US Federal
Budget
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NAICS
311999
Set-aside
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Contact
Steven Bogrette
Email
[email protected]

Description

AI Generated

DLA Troop Support seeks market research comments for a potential five-year solicitation to provide full-service food support across the Hawaiian Islands. The requested scope includes sourcing food, product consolidation, warehousing, inventory management, quality control, product transportation and security, personnel management, electronic order acceptance, skip-day or same-day deliveries, surge capacity, and extensive reporting. The program supports approximately 50 land-based and homeported ship customer locations, as well as visiting Navy ships, for military and federally funded entities such as the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Department of State. Interested vendors must submit responses via email to [email protected] and [email protected] no later than 12:00 PM local Philadelphia time on Thursday, October 15, 2026. This request for information serves solely for market research, so the buyer provides no bidding eligibility restrictions, proposal evaluation criteria, or committed contract award terms. The estimated total budget value for the potential five-year period is $480 million.

Key solicitation details

AI-extracted from RFI HAWAII(15SEP2026).pdf. Confirm against the original documents before bidding.

Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support is issuing a Request for Information to conduct market research for a potential five-year solicitation. The buyer is seeking full-service food support for military and federally funded customers located throughout the Hawaiian Islands. Support covers land-based and homeported ship customers across approximately 50 locations, as well as visiting Navy ships.

Issued by
Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support
RFI responses due
Noon (12pm), Local Philadelphia time, on Thursday October 15, 2026
How to submit
email
Submission details
Respond via e-mail to designated DLA contacts.
Contract term
potential five (5) year period
Estimated value
$480 million for the entire five (5)-year period
Place of performance
The Hawaiian Islands area of responsibility
Funding
Berry Amendment, 10 U.S.C. 4862 and Cargo Preference Act regulations apply

Scope of work

  • Sourcing food items
  • Receiving and consolidating product
  • Warehousing and inventory management
  • Quality control, quality assurance, and inspections
  • Transportation and security of product
  • Personnel management
  • Accepting orders electronically and meeting required delivery dates
  • Extensive reporting requirements

Documents to include with the bid

  • RFI response questionnaire including company name, CAGE code, point of contact, and answers to questions 1 through 14

Official SAM.gov notice

Solicitation number
SPE30027RXXXX
Agency
Department of Defense
Buying office
Defense Logistics Agency › DLA Troop Support
Notice type
Sources Sought
Responses due
Oct 15, 2026, 12:00 PM ET
Posted on SAM.gov
Sep 15, 2026
NAICS
311999 · All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing
Place of performance
HI
Contracting contact
Steven Bogrette
[email protected]
Additional contact
Gwen Garcia
[email protected]
Read the official notice description

This is a request for information (“RFI”). The sole purpose of this RFI is to conduct Market Research. DLA Troop Support’s Outside the Continental United States (“OCONUS”) Subsistence Prime Vendor (“SPV”) Program, is interested in your comments regarding a potential five (5) year solicitation for full-service food support to our military and other federally funded customers located throughout the Hawaiian Islands. Military and other federally funded customers include, but are not limited to, the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Department of State. NOTE: Support includes land-based and homeported ship customers with an estimate of 50 different locations in addition to visiting Navy ships.

Source: SAM.gov contract opportunities data (U.S. federal public data).

Incumbent

No incumbent history found for this requirement. The notice does not cite a current contract, and no earlier award from this buying office matches it.

Market context

Awards in the same category (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing). This is not this requirement's award history.

Recent similar awards: Department of Defense, NAICS 311999, performed in HI

Vendor and awardValueEnds
HAM PRODUCE & SEAFOOD INCSPE30226F2XWT · 4572090410!BLUEBERRIES, FRESH,$25,075Jul 20, 2026

Top vendors in this category: Department of Defense, NAICS 311999, since Oct 1, 2023

171,211 contract awards in this NAICS over the period.

  1. 1. US FOODS INC$402.2M
  2. 2. COASTAL PACIFIC FOOD DISTRIBUTORS, INC.$314.1M
  3. 3. REINHART FOODSERVICE, LLC$168.1M
  4. 4. LABATT INSTITUTIONAL SUPPLY CO$165.9M
  5. 5. THEODOR WILLE INTERTRADE GMBH$156.3M

Source: USAspending.gov federal award data (U.S. federal public data). A contract is called the incumbent only when the notice or its documents cite it by number.

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