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Summary: Presented By: Mr. Byron Schueneman, Chief Financial Officer, Division of Finance

Request: It is requested that the DeKalb County Board of Education approve the bid award for ITB 26-729 School Nutrition USDA Product Processing to Brookwood Farms, Inc., Gold Creek Foods, LLC., Hormel Food Sales, LLC, International Food Solutions, JTM Provisions Co. Inc., Maid-Rite Specialty Foods Inc., Pilgrim’s Pride, Proview Foods, and Tyson Prepared Foods in the amount not to exceed the budgeted amount of $6,160,000 for SY26-27, from August 11, 2026, through June 30, 2027, with four (4), one (1) year renewal options through June 30, 2031, subject to Board approval on an annual basis.

Why: To ensure DeKalb County School District (DCSD) School Nutrition Services (SNS) provides healthy reimbursable meals to students that meet the Child Nutrition, USDA standards for meal pattern requirements.

USDA allows recipient agencies such as school districts to contract with State approved food processors to convert USDA commodities into a variety of convenient, ready-to-use end products. School Nutrition Services uses various USDA commodities for processing products such as whole chicken processed to roasted chicken, natural American and mozzarella cheese processed to cheese sauce and coarse ground beef processed to beef patties. This has increased menu options and acceptability for students. Food safety is maintained at the school level by limiting use of raw products.

Details: School Nutrition Services uses various USDA commodities for processing products such as whole chicken processed to reaosted chicken, natural American and Mozzarella cheese processed to cheese sauce and beef coarse ground to bef patties. This helps to ensure food safety at the school level by limiting the handling of raw products.

Solicitation Process:
ITB 26-729 was competitively solicited through the Purchasing Department. It was posted to the DCSD website and IonWave on February 26, 2026. The bid was advertised in the Champion Newspaper on February 26, 2026 and March 5, 2026. Electronic notification was sent to 61 vendors from the DCSD vendor bid list, and to 144 vendors through IonWaves. Electronic notification was also sent to 340 vendors through the State of GA Procurement Registry.

Award Process:
Eighteen (18) bids were reviewed and deemed responsive to requirements of the solicitation. The evaluation panel selected nine (9) vendors that represent the lowest responsible and responsive bidders per line items.

Upon Board approval, the following vendors will be awarded per line items and Commodity Codes:


Brookwood Farms, Inc. Code#: Turkey Poultry Line 2:

163000.


Gold Creek Foods, LLC. Codes#: Poultry Lines: 2, 9, 12:

791895; 791890; 791880; and 792441.


Hormel Food Sales Codes: Turkey Poultry Lines 1, 3, 4:

317004; 231812; and 256818.


International Food Solutions Codes: Poultry Lines 7, 14:

72001; and 72003.


JTM Provisions Co. Inc. Codes: Beef Lines 4, 5:

CP5249; and CP5891; and Cheese Lines 1 and 2:
5734 and 5745.


Maid-Rite Specialty Foods Inc. Codes: Beef Line 3:

75156-93320; and 75156-93100.


Pilgrim’s Pride Codes: Poultry Lines 6, 10, 11:

110452; 7522; and 615400.


Proview Foods Codes: Poultry Lines 4, 16:

34007; and 28809.


Tyson Prepared Foods Codes: Poultry Lines 1, 3, 5, 8, 13:

16660100928; 10264360928; 10703780928; 10264350928,
10703620928.

Notes:


No Bids on Beef: Lines 2 and 6
No Award on Beef Line 1
No Award on Cheese Lines 3 and 4
No Award on Poultry Line 15
Award Poultry Line 8: Not awarded to Gold Creek because the item quoted is not an approve equal based on size. The size is approximately 3.71 oz which is too small in comparison to Tyson Prepared Foods 5.05.

Brookwood Farms, Inc.
1015 Alston Bridge Rd.
Siler City, NC 27344

Gold Creek Foods
2255 White Sulphur Rd
Gainesville, GA 30501

Hormel Food Sales, LLC
One Hormel Place
Austin, MN 55912

International Food Solutions, Inc.
5600 Elmhurst Circle
Oviedo, FL 32765

JTM Provisions Co., Inc.
200 Sales Drive
Harrison, OH 45030

Maid-Rite Specialty Foods LLC
105 Keystone Industrial Park
Dunmore, PA 18512-0509

Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation
1770 Promontory Circle
Greeley, CO 80634

Proview Foods
100 Jericho Quadrangle Suite 140
Jericho, NY 11753

Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc.
2200 Don Tyson Parkway
Springdale, AR 72762

Financial impact: GL account: 622.3100.563000.00062.8200.9990.8015.050.0000.

Contact: Mr. Byron Schueneman, Chief Financial Officer, Division of Finance, 678.676.0270
Ms. Condus Shuman, Director of School Nutrition Services, Division of Finance, 678.676.1772

Effective: Upon Board Approval

Status: Approved by the Office of Legal Affairs