Specifications include, but are not limited to: This RFP provides background information and describes the services desired by STATE. It describes the requirements for this procurement and specifies the contractual conditions required by the STATE. Although this RFP establishes the basis for Responder Proposals, the detailed obligations and additional measures of performance will be defined in the final negotiated contract. Qualified Responders Qualified Responders to this Request for Proposal (RFP) are nonprofit organizations and federally recognized American Indian Tribes or Bands located in Minnesota (as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 10.65), with a demonstrated history of providing and distributing prepared meals customized for the population that they serve, including tailoring meals to the cultural, religious, and dietary needs of the population served. Qualified Responders must prepare meals in a licensed commercial kitchen and distribute meals according to ServSafe guidelines. Grant Requirements Under this Prepared Meals Food Relief grant, providers must use grant money to fund a prepared meals program that primarily targets individuals between eighteen (18) and sixty (60) years of age, and their dependents, experiencing food insecurity. Selected Responders must avoid duplication with existing state and federal meal programs. Grant money must supplement, but not supplant, any state or federal funding used to provide prepared meals to Minnesotans experiencing food insecurity. (See Appendix A, Form 2).
