Emergency Standby Transportation Services

2026-11-03

Operational Requirements : Transportation Brokerage Over the road truck or fleet truck , one - way service ( provide the most cost - effective service ) to a vendor provided cross dock facility . Commodities will be cross docked into trailers leased by the selected vendor . The bidder will provide documentation of commodities cross docked from over the road trucks into leased trailers . Bidders Dock Management and Facility The contractor is expected to be available 7 days a week , 24 hours a day ( if required ) when the contractor is notified of commodities purchased for disaster preparedness and shipped to the contractor ’ s identified address . The contractor will not be required to maintain the facility open 24 hours ( unless this is the contractor ’ s ’ normal operation ) after the state has received all purchased commodities and starts receiving federal commodities . Dock management and facility must further meet these requirements : 24 - hourhour availability during a crisis . Centralized management service provider with a director or manager of all operations during crisis period . Flexible labor force to receive loads into a cross docked facility . Material handling equipment to move palletized shipments . Trailer drop yard or space for inbound loads – 50 trailers . Secure drop yard , fenced in facility and central entry point . Facility must be a flow through operation to efficiently process loads . Transportation Network Ability The contractor must be able to move 10 – 75 shuttle loads daily from the State Staging Area ( SSA ) to designated County Staging Areas ( CSA ) with through put ( as required ) to Commodity Point of Distribution ( CPOD ) site within affected counties and drop trailer as required ...

Mississippi

2026-04-29