Sources Sought
Market Ready Grocery Items for Oahu
Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
AI summaryRequest for information (market research, no solicitation yet): the Defense Logistics Agency's Troop Support Indo-Pacific office is asking grocery suppliers for feedback on a full line of perishable and non-perishable grocery items for Department of Defense and non-DoD customers on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. A future single-award contract is planned. Responses are due by the response due date, November 6, 2026, 8:00 AM Hawaii time. More in the summary
Market research, not a bid. Replying is free and tells Defense Logistics Agency who could do this work. Send a short reply to the contracting contact; no price is needed. See the contact
A newer version of this notice was posted Oct 23, 2026. See the latest version.
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Request for information (market research, no solicitation yet): the Defense Logistics Agency's Troop Support Indo-Pacific office is asking grocery suppliers for feedback on a full line of perishable and non-perishable grocery items for Department of Defense and non-DoD customers on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. A future single-award contract is planned. Responses are due by the response due date, November 6, 2026, 8:00 AM Hawaii time.
Who can bid
- Small business: SAM.gov lists this notice as a total small business set-aside
How to submit: Email to Wendi Damas (wendi.damas@dla.mil) and Bradley Ah Nee (bradley.ahnee@dla.mil). What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (4)
From the version posted Oct 23, 2026.
- Serious: Future bidders must price every item. A bidder that leaves out any item on the Schedule of Items may be rejected, so a small supplier needs the full line of groceries.
- Worth checking: Request for information only, no solicitation. Nothing can be bid on yet, and responding promises no future business.
- Worth checking: Exact quality grade per item. Bids that miss the listed quality grade for an item may be rejected as technically unacceptable.
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- Worth checking: Single award. Only one firm is planned to win, so the awardee must cover the whole line.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment. 1 of 2 not read. Show which files.
- Attach 2_Customer List.pdf (read)
- Attach 1_Schedule of Items.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Supply a full line of perishable and non-perishable grocery items to customers on the island of Oahu
- Meet the quality grade listed per item in Attachment 1 (Schedule of Items), or USDA Grade A or better when no grade is listed
- Propose on every item in the future Schedule of Items
- Return the Market Research Survey, which the agency strongly encourages
- Contract type
- Planned: a Simplified Indefinite-Delivery Contract (SIDC: orders placed as needed over time), one award
- Place of performance
- JBPHH, HI, USA (as SAM.gov gives it); customers are on the island of Oahu
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 6, 2026, 8:00 AM Hawaii time (1:00 PM Eastern)
- How to submit
- Email to Wendi Damas (wendi.damas@dla.mil) and Bradley Ah Nee (bradley.ahnee@dla.mil)
What to include when you submit
- Review Attachment 1 (Schedule of Items) and Attachment 2 (Delivery Locations)
- Submit a completed Market Research Survey (strongly encouraged)
- Mark any proprietary information as such so it is protected
Current contractor
No incumbent is named. The agency plans one award.
Not in the notice text
- The item list, quantities, units of issue and quality grades are in Attachment 1 (Schedule of Items, a spreadsheet), which is attached on SAM.gov but not read
- The delivery locations are in Attachment 2 (Customer List), whose text couldn't be read here; check the file on SAM.gov
- Contract length, order sizes and delivery terms are not stated
- The Market Research Survey form is not among the files read; check SAM.gov for it
- How the award would be decided is not stated
Eligibility and how to respond
- If it goes ahead as planned: set aside for small businesses: only a business that counts as small under this notice's NAICS code can bid as the prime contractor. More open small business set-asides under NAICS 311999
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 22, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- DLA Troop Support Indo-Pacific, JBPHH, HI
- Product/service code
- 8950 · Condiments and Related Products
- Business type
- Food & food service (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 311999)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 23, 2026 · Amendment 0001Due Nov 6, 2026
- Oct 22, 2026 · Sources Sought (this version)Due Nov 6, 2026
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
Terms on this notice: Sources sought notice, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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