Sources Sought
RFI Colombia South America Bottled Water Support
Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
AI summaryDLA Troop Support asks in a request for information (RFI: a market research notice, not a solicitation) whether firms can supply bottled water to Tolemaida Military Fort, a Colombian Army installation. The notice places it about 75 miles south of Bogata Columbia. Email responses are due November 4, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern, and the RFI estimates annual bottled water sales for this contract at $350,000.00. More in the summary
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DLA Troop Support asks in a request for information (RFI: a market research notice, not a solicitation) whether firms can supply bottled water to Tolemaida Military Fort, a Colombian Army installation. The notice places it about 75 miles south of Bogata Columbia. Email responses are due November 4, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern, and the RFI estimates annual bottled water sales for this contract at $350,000.00.
How to submit: Email to Michael.Agovino@dla.mil. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (6)
From the version posted Oct 14, 2026.
- Worth checking: One Public Health Command approved source named. The RFI names a single approved bottled water source in Colombia, Industria Nacional de Gaseosa S.A. CO-0006, so a new supplier may need to buy from it or ask about other sources.
- Worth checking: Delivery and base access in Colombia. Deliveries go to a Colombian Army base, and the RFI asks whether drivers can get base access or need an escort.
- Worth checking: Place of performance differs between SAM.gov and the text. SAM.gov lists the place of performance as PA, USA, but the notice text places the work at Tolemaida Military Fort in Colombia.
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- Minor: Sources sought only, no solicitation. This is market research: it does not commit the Government to buy, so there is nothing to bid on yet.
- Minor: Response time stated two ways. SAM.gov gives 3:00 PM Eastern on November 4, 2026, while the RFI says responses are wanted by the close of business that day.
- Minor: Price format with a fixed distribution price. The RFI asks for a product price plus a distribution price, with the distribution price held fixed for the contract year.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment. Show which files.
- RFI Colombia Bottled Water 2026-2027.docx (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Prime Vendor support for bottled water for military and federally funded customers at Tolemaida Military Fort
- Source bottled water, receive and consolidate materials, warehouse and manage inventory
- Transport the water, accept customer orders electronically and deliver
- Run a quality assurance program
- Items of interest: cases of 1-liter or 1.5-liter bottles and 5-gallon containers
- A possible additional bottled water requirement at the same location
- Period of performance
- One year: the RFI calls the contract length one year in its pricing question
- Place of performance
- Tolemaida Military Fort, a Colombian Army installation about 75 miles south of Bogata Columbia (SAM.gov's place of performance field says PA, USA)
- Estimated value
- $350,000.00 estimated annual bottled water sales for this contract, per the RFI
- Contract vehicle
- DLA Troop Support's OCONUS Subsistence Prime Vendor (OCONUS SPV) Program (a prime vendor program for customers outside the continental United States)
- Offers due
- November 4, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Email to Michael.Agovino@dla.mil
What to include when you submit
- Send answers to the RFI's questions by email: no proposal or quote is requested
- Say whether your firm can provide Prime Vendor support to the customer at Tolemaida Military Fort
- Send specification sheets or item information on the bottled water types available from your source
- Say whether you expect concerns making deliveries to the fort, and whether your drivers would get base access or need an escort
- Say whether your firm is a large or small business (the RFI defines small as fewer than 700 employees)
- Describe your type of business, major customers and NAICS code (the code that classifies your line of business)
- Say whether you have an existing facility you would operate from, and what it is used for now
- Say whether you can handle or expand to handle the $350,000.00 estimated annual sales
- Say whether you can show pricing as Product price + Distribution price = Final price
- Say whether you could meet the possible additional requirement using the Public Health Command (PHC) approved sources
- Mark any proprietary information: the RFI says it will be protected if appropriately marked
Not in the notice text
- No solicitation exists yet, so contract type, set-aside, evaluation method and award timing are not stated.
- The RFI says nothing on a local office in Colombia, host-country licenses or registration, currency of offers, or taxes such as VAT.
- Item 8 refers to the "below listed" PHC approved sources, but only one source is listed.
- The RFI does not say how many bottles or cases are needed, or what unit of issue applies, only the $350,000.00 annual sales estimate.
- The RFI gives no start date for the contract.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside. Any business can reply: this is market research, and no bid is being taken yet.
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 14, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- DLA Troop Support, Philadelphia, PA
- Business type
- Food & food service (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 311999)
- 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
Full notice text from SAM.gov
Request For Information (Colombia 2026-2027) This is a request for information (RFI). DLA Troop Support’s OCONUS Subsistence Prime Vendor (OCONUS SPV) Program is interested in your comments regarding “Bottled Water Support” to our military and federally funded customers at Tolemaida Military Fort, a Columbian Army Installation approximately 75 miles south of Bogata Columbia. There is no solicitation available at this time. The Government will not pay for any information received in response to this RFI, nor will the Government compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing the information provided to the Government. This RFI does not constitute a commitment from the Government and any information provided in response to this market survey will be used for informational purposes only. See attachment for all other details.
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