Operational Requirements: Transportation Brokerage Over the road truck or fleet truck, one-way service (provide the most cost-effective service) to a vendor provided cross dock facility. Commodities will be cross docked into trailers leased by the selected vendor. The bidder will provide documentation of commodities cross docked from over the road trucks into leased trailers. Bidders Dock Management and Facility The contractor is expected to be available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day (if required) when the contractor is notified of commodities purchased for disaster preparedness and shipped to the contractor’s identified address. The contractor will not be required to maintain the facility open 24 hours (unless this is the contractor’s’ normal operation) after the state has received all purchased commodities and starts receiving federal commodities. Dock management and facility must further meet these requirements: 24-hourhour availability during a crisis. Centralized management service provider with a director or manager of all operations during crisis period. Flexible labor force to receive loads into a cross docked facility. Material handling equipment to move palletized shipments. Trailer drop yard or space for inbound loads – 50 trailers. Secure drop yard, fenced in facility and central entry point. Facility must be a flow through operation to efficiently process loads. Transportation Network Ability The contractor must be able to move 10 – 75 shuttle loads daily from the State Staging Area (SSA) to designated County Staging Areas (CSA) with through put (as required) to Commodity Point of Distribution (CPOD) site within affected counties and drop trailer as required...
