2008 Woodie Awards
District food service contract expires; cafeteria could close for summer semesters
By Will Underhill
Issue date: 4/18/08 Section: News
Originally published: 4/17/08 at 6:19 PM CSTLast update: 5/9/08 at 5:23 PM CST
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The Custom Foods contract with the district expires May 16, which put the cafeteria contracts up for bid this summer.
This also means that students taking summer classes or participating in summer programs may have to go elsewhere for lunch.
Although the new contract has yet to be awarded, options for a food service vendor for the summer semester are being looked into by James McLaughlin, vice chancellor of administration.
"The contract was coming to an end, so it was a matter of opening the contract up for bid," Thomas Billimek, psychology chair and chair of the district Food Service Committee, said.
The district Food Service Committee is in charge of finding a new vendor to provide food services for district colleges in the fall semester, Billimek said.
"The current vendor could reapply. The contract is up this year so it's just a matter of negotiating a new contract," Billimek said.
However, McLaughlin, said that the current vendor has decided not to submit a proposal for the contract.
The deadline for new bids was April 11, with three proposals for the contract made to the district, Linda O'Nave, director of acquisitions and administrative services for the district, said in an e-mail.
The contents of the proposals are confidential until they are evaluated and the awards process for the contract is complete, O'Nave said.
The committee evaluates each proposal based on fairness, reasonableness of fees, reputation of the vendor, quality of service, the ability of the vendor to provide services throughout the district and the extent to which they meet district needs as well as past history with the district, Billimek said.
The committee aniticipates taking recommendations before the board of trustees in May or July.
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