Presolicitation
MSG Cook Service
Department of State
AI summaryThe U.S. Embassy in Riga, Latvia (Department of State) plans to issue a request for quotes (RFQ) for a food services contractor to cook and serve meals for the Embassy's Marine Security Guard Detachment. This is a presolicitation notice only: no responses are requested, and no offer due date is given. The planned contract is firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work costs) with one base year and four one-year options. More in the summary
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The U.S. Embassy in Riga, Latvia (Department of State) plans to issue a request for quotes (RFQ) for a food services contractor to cook and serve meals for the Embassy's Marine Security Guard Detachment. This is a presolicitation notice only: no responses are requested, and no offer due date is given. The planned contract is firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work costs) with one base year and four one-year options.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 15, 2026.
- Worth checking: Work is in Latvia. A U.S. small business will need to staff and run a kitchen in Riga; the notice does not yet say what local office, license, registration, currency or tax rules apply.
- Minor: Presolicitation only, no responses requested. Nothing can be submitted for this notice and no award will come from it; the actual RFQ will follow and must be watched for.
- Minor: Daily meal service for Marines. Meals are required every day, Monday through Friday, so the contractor needs reliable kitchen staffing and backup coverage.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Prepare, cook and serve meals every day, Monday through Friday
- Clean the kitchen, all dishes and all appliances after each meal, with as little disruption as possible to normal operations
- Provide all managerial, administrative and direct labor staff needed
- Furnish all labor, materials, equipment and services
- Perform all work in spaces the Embassy designates; contractor staff are on site only for contract duties
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP), anticipated
- Period of performance
- One base year from the date of contract award, plus four one-year option periods (anticipated)
- Place of performance
- Riga, Latvia (U.S. Embassy Riga)
- Estimated value
- Not stated
Not in the notice text
- The RFQ is not issued yet; the offer due date, how to submit, and the evaluation method are not in this notice
- Local requirements in Latvia (local presence or entity, licenses, registration, labor law, the currency of offers and exchange rates, and host-country taxes such as VAT) are not stated
- Set-aside status is not stated on SAM.gov
- Number of Marines served, meal counts and kitchen location details are not stated
- Whether an incumbent exists is not stated
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside: any business, large or small, can bid unless the notice says otherwise.
- How and where to submit is in the notice text and its attachments on SAM.gov.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 15, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- U.S. Embassy Riga
- Product/service code
- S203 · Housekeeping – Food
- Business type
- Food & food service (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 722310)
- 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: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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