Specifications include, but are not limited to: The State intends to award a contract to one (1) Contractor for the provision of comprehensive cookserve food services with adequate staff and management personnel to operate a daily food management services operation at the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services’ (TDMHSAS) Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute (MTMHI). MTMHI has two (2) buildings where its Service Recipients receive three (3) meals and two (2) snacks daily. These two (2) buildings include MTMHI’s Main Building, which currently has seven (7) patient units, and a Forensic Services Program (FSP) Building, which has two (2) patient units. MTMHI’s campus-wide average daily census (ADC) for the 60-month period ending October 31, 2023, was one hundred sixtytwo and eighty-eight hundredths (162.88). Recently the ADC has been one hundred and eighty-six (186), and MTMHI expects this higher ADC to continue for the foreseeable future. In addition to service recipient meals and snacks, employee meals shall be available for purchase by employees using cash or card in the main dining room during scheduled service recipient mealtimes. Occasional catering for outside groups and employees shall also be provided upon request by the State. Catering is low volume compared with patient and employee meals, but should be available upon request of the State, sometimes on short notice. This could include a range of hot lunches for twelve (12) individuals or snacks for seventy-five (75) individuals. In the main building, main dining room, meals shall be available for both Service Recipients and hospital staff during the set mealtimes, seven (7) days per week. Staff meals will be charged to each individual and paid by cash or card, per meal, at the time of service. MTMHI estimates the number of staff meals to be approximately seventy-five (75) per day Monday through Friday and approximately forty-five (45) per day Saturday and Sunday. Service recipient meals campus-wide shall be billed to the State monthly based on actual census. As determined by the State, some Service Recipients will dine in the main dining room and others shall have their meals delivered to their units by the contractor.
