Summary of Specifications:
Washtenaw County, Michigan operates a year–round Senior Nutrition Program which provides daily nutritious hot lunchtime meals to Washtenaw County residents who are sixty (60) years of age or older. Meals are currently offered in seventeen (17) community centers, and are delivered by volunteers, to client’s homes (See Attachment A). The number of dining locations may be adjusted during the course of the contract.
Washtenaw County is seeking proposals from qualified caterers to prepare and deliver meals to approximately sixteen dining locations. The caterer will operate on the County calendar and will assure daily delivery within a timeframe established by the County. Approximately 65,000 meals will be purchased, the vast majority will be delivered hot and in bulk; although some meals will need to be individually packaged hot meals, cold meals, or frozen meals. Menus must be in compliance with the requirements of the Michigan State Office of Services to the Aging and the Area Agency on Aging 1B. Menus may require modification based on customer request.
All costs related to the preparation, delivery and individual serving should be included in the per-meal cost submitted in response to this RFP. Serving utensils and miscellaneous supplies are to be made available for delivery to the centers by the caterer for additional cost. Additional detail regarding needed supplies is included within this proposal.
