Solicitation
Nutrition Care Services; Military Treatment Facilities - Forts Irwin, Leonard Wood, Riley, Stewart, and West Point
Department of Defense · Defense Health Agency (DHA)
AI summaryThe Defense Health Agency wants nutrition care food services (dining management, therapeutic meals, patient tray delivery, sanitation and training) at five Army hospitals: Fort Irwin, Fort Leonard Wood, Fort Riley, Fort Stewart and West Point (RFP HT940827RE003). It is firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) with a monthly price per hospital, up to one award per hospital, running from a December 1, 2026 transition through options to September 30, 2029. The amendment extends the response due date to November 13, 2026, 12:00 PM Central, and the Randolph-Sheppard Act gives priority to state licensing agencies. More in the summary
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Summary of the version posted Oct 30, 2026. The notice was amended Nov 5, 2026. Check what else changed on SAM.gov. Some details are in the notice's attachments, which this summary didn't read. Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The Defense Health Agency wants nutrition care food services (dining management, therapeutic meals, patient tray delivery, sanitation and training) at five Army hospitals: Fort Irwin, Fort Leonard Wood, Fort Riley, Fort Stewart and West Point (RFP HT940827RE003). It is firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) with a monthly price per hospital, up to one award per hospital, running from a December 1, 2026 transition through options to September 30, 2029. The amendment extends the response due date to November 13, 2026, 12:00 PM Central, and the Randolph-Sheppard Act gives priority to state licensing agencies.
Who can bid
- Registration in SAM with a CAGE code and Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) before award
Things to watch (4)
- Serious: Randolph-Sheppard Act priority. A responsive State Licensing Agency (SLA: the state program for blind vendors) gets priority for award, which can beat an otherwise winning small business.
- Worth checking: Open to all sizes of business. The solicitation is full-and-open, so small businesses compete with large food service firms.
- Minor: Questions were due Nov 4, 2026. Check the amendments for the agency's answers.
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- Minor: Five hospitals in five states. Sites are spread across California, Missouri, Kansas, Georgia and New York, though awards may be made per hospital.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Dining facility management at each of the five Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs: military hospitals)
- Therapeutic food preparation
- Patient tray assembly and delivery
- Clinical training
- Facility sanitation and related janitorial duties
- Logistics analysis and management for the Nutrition Care Divisions
- Management, supervisory, technical, administrative and clerical staff
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price, with a set monthly price per MTF; multiple contracts may be awarded, up to one per MTF
- Period of performance
- Transition December 1, 2026 – January 31, 2027; base period February 1, 2027 – September 30, 2027; two twelve-month option periods through September 30, 2029
- Place of performance
- Weed Army Community Hospital (Fort Irwin, CA); General Leonard Wood Community Hospital (Fort Leonard Wood, MO); Irwin Army Community Hospital (Fort Riley, KS); Winn Army Community Hospital (Fort Stewart, GA); Keller Army Community Hospital (West Point, NY)
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 13, 2026, 12:00 PM Central (from the version posted Oct 30, 2026; amended since)
What they'll judge offers on
- Small business participation (subcontracting) plan, for other-than-small businesses and non-SLAs
What to include when you submit
- Use the attachments and exhibits dated "30 Oct 2026"; the earlier versions are deleted.
- The earlier Attachment 4 (Past Performance Questionnaire) may still be used, but it must be sent under the updated instructions, directly to the Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist.
- Put "HT940827RE003" in the subject line of all correspondence.
- Comply with all requirements of the solicitation and its attachments to be considered responsive.
Current contractor
No incumbent is named. The requirement was announced before, but never solicited, under ID HT940826RE017.
Not in the notice text
- The evaluation method and full list of evaluation factors are in the solicitation documents, not the notice text.
- Submission method and page limits are not stated in the notice text.
- Staffing levels and meal counts per hospital are not stated.
- Estimated value is not stated.
- The updated Technical Exhibit E is still to come.
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
- Nov 5, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- Defense Health Agency, San Antonio, TX
- Product/service code
- S203 · Housekeeping – Food
- Business type
- Food & food service (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 722310)
- Versions
3 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Nov 5, 2026 · Amendment 0002 (this version)Due Nov 13, 2026
- Oct 30, 2026 · Amendment 0001Due Nov 13, 2026 (changed)
- Oct 16, 2026 · SolicitationDue Nov 4, 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
- How to respond to a solicitation (8 steps)
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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