Deep Dive Blue Team: USDA SUMMER ELECTRONIC BENEFIT TRANSFER APP & SUPPORT (EBT)

Join us on April 25, 2025 at 10:30am(EST) on Zoom!
 
We will be going over this USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)- opportunity, the leaders, likely bidders, and much more. This will help you with your step reviews, your teaming, your competitive intel, your executive call plan and more.
What is this opportunity all about?
This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial products or commercial services prepared in accordance with the format in subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Nutrition Service (FNS) as need to hire a contractor to create and administer an online Summer EBT application on behalf of states and tribal organizations. Section 502 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (PL 117-328) created a new, permanent Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (Summer EBT) program that will begin in summer 2024. The Act authorizes states and tribal organizations (referred to as states for simplicity) to operate the program with responsibilities including program oversight, determining participant eligibility, maintaining eligibility lists, and processing and distributing EBT cards to eligible children.
The application's design and administration is expected to be analogous to that of the various National School Lunch Program applications that are commercially available today. Alternatively, the government invites vendors with no prior NSLP experience to provide a quote to administer and provide support for an application currently in development by United States Digital Response (USDR).
 
What is USDA/FNS all about?
USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service leverages its 16 nutrition assistance programs to ensure children, income eligible individuals, and families have equitable access to healthy, safe, and affordable foods that promote optimal health and well-being, while building a more resilient food system. We accomplish this by partnering with over 175 states, U.S. territories, and Tribal organizations that operate federal nutrition programs. Our programs serve 1 in 4 Americans over the course of a year.
Our mission is to increase food security and reduce hunger in partnership with cooperating organizations by providing children and low-income people access to food, a healthy diet, and nutrition education in a manner that supports American agriculture and inspires public confidence.
This $7M opportunity is primed by Nutri-Link Technologies.
Attendees will receive the slide deck, the recording and call plan for this December 2026 anticipated RFP release date.