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Pizza And Cheese Delivery: $220,800 Without Tip
December 12, 2011
The Escambia County School District is set to place an order for pizza and cheese totaling a bit under a quarter million dollars — without a delivery tip.
But it’s nothing unusual. In fact, it’s the ordinary order for the school district’s cafeterias for January 1 to June 30, 2012, to meet breakfast and lunch menu requirements for students.
The estimated $220,800 is set to be awarded to ConAgra Foods ($52,700), Schwan’s Food Service ($46,900), Sysco Gulf Coast ($5,000), and US Foodsevice ($116,200). The items will be stocked by the district’s central warehouse for distribution to school cafeterias across the county.
The school district is also set to purchase canned and frozen fruits and vegetables for the same time period at an estimated $498,600.
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3 Responses to “Pizza And Cheese Delivery: $220,800 Without Tip”
These are not new ideas. The administrators of the Escambia County School District are not stupid. They have excellent minds looking into these ideas and have found that the Escambia County School District Food Service Department is doing a fine job and getting the job done as economically as possible while maintaining a great end product. Keeping in mind that the Food Service Department is feeding roughly 39,000 children per day so this is no small task, there has to be planning. One of the main reasons for this economy is that the past administrators had the forethought to build a central warehouse which allows the district to purchase frozen and canned foods in quantities that lower the costs. Couple the warehouse with a purchasing department that cares about cost savings and the rotation of inventory and you’ll have the best of both worlds. With out the ability to maintain a reserve inventory the district would be at the mercy of the vendors who would charge an additional 10 to 30 percent more to deliver a just in time inventory while forcing the district to take substitutions of possible lesser quality when they could not deliver the goods ordered hence “just in time” to cook and feed to your children.
Once you lose the ability to have a centralized warehousing system you can never get it back in this day and age of extremely tight budgets so ideas to through away assets are not taken lightly. The consumer can not and will not stand for higher taxes to pay for the construction at today’s costs. As for fresher product all of the breads, milk, eggs and fresh product are purchased locally now so how can you get fresher. The central warehouse only stores frozen, canned foods, some cereals, flour and commodity cheese now. With constant rotation of product you can’t get fresher product by going to “just in time deliveries” after all their purchased food stuffs come from the same places that the district purchases from less the middle man.
@429SCJ,
In addition to providing a fresher product, your idea would also keep more of the money in our local economy. If the cost is comparible, then I think the idea should be considered.
We need a Blanket Purchase Contract to buy these items direct. It never hurts to save money. The central warehouse is a good idea, but if you have these orders delivered on demand, by the distributor, direct to the end users, you reduce the warehouse and personnel requirments. There is someone at each school dining facility, I would think, that could be cerfified to inspect/recieve the items.I do not know the Procurment Officer, but I would be glad to provide OJT and guidance. I need copies of your acquisition and storage regulations and a few days to review.