1. Establish and administer food transportation lines of credit, as allocated and approved by HPNAP, for each regional food bank. The current HPNAP contracted regional food banks in NYS include the Food Bank for New York City, the Food Bank of Central New York, Catholic Charities Food Bank of the Southern Tier, Feedmore, Foodlink, Inc., Feeding Westchester, Long Island Cares, Inc, City Harvest, Island Harvest, and Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York. 2. Make all necessary arrangements for the safe collection and distribution of donated and purchased foods to the respective regional food bank. 3. Establish a system to solicit bids from food transportation companies (carriers) on traffic lanes from shipper/donor’s warehouse to one or more of the eight HPNAP supported regional food banks (RFB) or between RFBs. 4. Ensure that job bid comparisons are performed and a selection methodology is established and documented to consider both price and service (i.e., best value). 5. Accept and review proposals from the regional food banks to 1) approve the use of best value or cheaper carriers that these regional food banks may identify to transport food, and 2) to transfer foods that will be paid for with separate (off contract) RFB monies.
