RFP 51512 Dining Kitchen Hood Cleaning

UMD Dining Services is seeking an established, State of Maryland licensed, hood cleaning company to provide a periodic hood cleaning service for our Dining Services operations. Dining Services requires an experienced hood cleaning firm with trained representatives/employees to provide complete hood cleaning services.

The University of Maryland, Department of Dining Services is responsible for providing all food and beverage services on the College Park campus. Dining Services operates three large Dining Halls, catering operations, athletic training table (Jones-Hill House), multiple retail operations, and a golf course restaurant on the College Park, MD campus.

The successful vendor will have trained, experienced employees visit each Dining Hall operation, as required, during the required times according to the kitchen schedules listed in the matrix, Section 4.4.

The contract term shall commence March 1, 2027. The contract term shall terminate one (1) year after award, unless extended or sooner terminated in accordance with the contract. At the sole option of the University, the contract may be renewed for up to four (4) additional separately exercisable one (1) year term under the same terms and conditions.

Enter pricing for cleaning all hood systems in each Dining Operation. Some Units require multiple cleanings per year, while others require cleaning only once per year. With per cleaning pricing, regardless of the number of times a hood system is cleaned there will be a fixed price entered by your firm for each time a hood system is cleaned.

Bidders must bid on all the listed Dining operations to be considered for this proposal.

Additional Dining operations needing hood cleaning may be added or deleted, as our business needs change.

The Offeror must submit Technical Proposal electronically via 'UMD Box' with the URL as noted, https://umd.app.box.com/f/47df623bb8814fd79a39f85c276f68cb.

The Offeror must submit Financial Proposal electronically via 'UMD Box' with the URL as noted, https://umd.app.box.com/f/5f7a3620251c4f30af3df6325a60422a.

Commingling of technical and financial information or failure to submit the two volumes separately, or as instructed, may result in the proposal being deemed non-acceptable.

The University reserves the right to make an award to more than one contractor or to split an award among contractors, to the responsible contractors based on lowest price technically acceptable offer to the University.

The University will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforms to the solicitation and is determined to be the lowest priced among those rated technically acceptable.

Proposals will be valid for a minimum of 120 days following the closing date of this RFP.