Posted on 08/15/2012 10:36:44 AM PDT by MrPiper
Solicitation Number: Notice Type: AG-DSSB-S-12-0117
USDA's Farm Service Agency, Kansas City Commodity Office (KCCO) intends to issue solicitation AG-DSSB-S-12-0117 for procurement of Sunflower Seed Butter Products for domestic food assistance programs. Deliveries are to various locations in the United States on an FOB destination basis. The solicitation may include various small business set asides pursuant to the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631, et seq.). This may include partial or total small business set-asides, service-disabled veteran-owned (SDVO) set-asides, quantities reserved for 8(a) and AbilityOne firms, and price evaluation preferences for qualified HUBZone small businesses. Quantities reserved for 8(a) and SDVO firms where only one of those firms meets KCCO qualification requirements will be awarded on a sole source basis through issuance of a letter RFP issued directly to those companies.
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google search shows this stuff as a peanut butter subsitute at about $9/16 oz.
Please advise where, and why its needed for welfare?
“Please advise where, and why its needed for welfare?”
Are you sure you want to know what Sunbeam really does with that sunflower butter?
It is for children with peanut allergies. One taste of pb and their head swells up like a basketball and they need a pint of epinephrine pumped into them.
Yeah, it’s expensive. But cheaper than that.
and kids need peanut butter subsitute on my tax dollars because???.?no protein in hamburger or beans?
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