2.  119 Member Districts ◦ Serving over 41 million meals per year ◦ Over $10 million in entitlement  Northern California Cooperative ◦ Bay Area ◦ Monterey Peninsula ◦ North Coast ◦ Far North Region ◦ Foothills ◦ Central Valley

3.  Lead District- Vallejo City Unified School District  SLIC Coop Executive Committee  Gold Star Foods- Administrator and Distributor  Purchasing Cooperative- both commodity and commercial foods

4.  Market Basket RFP-Award Criteria ◦ Price ◦ Food Safety ◦ Recall Procedures ◦ Completed Package ◦ Products Offered  Incomplete proposals will be rejected  Accepted proposals- allow all items  Partnership between Coop, Manufacturers, and Brokers

5.  Let’s review the spreadsheet.

6.  Issue Date: ◦ April 26, 2016  Bidders Conference: ◦ April 29, 2016  RFP Submission Deadline: ◦ May 17, 2016 at 2pm ◦ Vallejo City USD  Public Opening: ◦ May 18, 2016 at 11am ◦ Gold Star Foods- Fairfield

8.  1 hard copy with original signatures  1 electronic copy

9.  Yes! Done!

10.  This is for USDA Foods Processors that do not utilize Third Party clearinghouses like K12 and Processor Link.  This provides the data reporting structure between Gold Star and the Processor

11.  Public opening on May 18 th  The SLIC Coop will verify that the proposals all contain the required information  Pricing sheets will be available for review

12.  Yes, the documents can be found at www.goldstarfoods.com/slic www.goldstarfoods.com/slic

13.  No, however, the person initialing the bid, should be a responsible party.

14.  Items should be of domestic origin.  Add additional sheets as necessary to provide ◦ Origin of Company ◦ Origin of Processing ◦ Origin of Product (can be difficult with multiple ingredients)

15.  Email Danette Grant dgrant@riverbank.k12.ca.us. by 3pm on Tuesday, May 3 rd. dgrant@riverbank.k12.ca.us  Addendum #1- Q&A from Webinar and emails questions will be posted on the SLIC Coop website by 5pm May 4 th.