Foodservice

Feds award Merchants Foodservice $86M contract to serve military facilities

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February 23, 2021

Merchants Foodservice, a warehouse foodservice distributor in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, has been awarded an $86.1 million Defense Logistics Agency contract to provide food to military installations in Mississippi and Louisiana, according to a press release from the office of U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi.

The company will provide full-line food distribution to Air Force, Army, Navy and Coast Guard facilities in the two states.

The fixed-price contract includes economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-quantity provisions. The contract extends to February 2025.

Last May, Hyde-Smith announced that Merchants Foodservice had received a $10.3 million contract through the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers to Families Food Box Program, which provides fresh foods to food banks and other nonprofits hit by the coronavirus pandemic.