Nutrition and Wellness Programs
Regulations and Requirements—Meal Services Contracts
Applicability
of Federal Requirements to School Food Service Procurements
In August 2000, a final regulation published in the Federal Register moved the procurement procedure requirements for the Child Nutrition and Wellness Programs from Department regulation 7 CFR Part 3015 to 7 CFR Parts 3016 and 3019. School food authorities are encouraged to share this information with their legal counsel. Please refer to the questions and answers link below for more information regarding how these requirements have changed the procurement procedures for public and nonprofit school food authorities (SFAs).
The
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
- 7 CFR Part 210 National School Lunch Program
- 7 CFR Part 3016 Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Cooperative Agreements to State and Local Governments
- 7 CFR Part 3017 Governmentwide Debarment and Suspension (Nonprocurement) and Governmentwide Requirements for Drug-Free Workplace (Grants)
- 7 CFR Part 3018 New Restrictions on Lobbying
- 7 CFR Part 3019 Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other Non-Profit Organizations
The
School Code of Illinois/2012 
According to The School Code of Illinois, all food service management company contracts involving expenditures in excess of $25,000 must be competitively bid. Currently, vended meals contracts involving expenditures in excess of the $150,000 federal threshold must be competitively bid.
