[vendtalk] Sodexo Wins $926M Marine Corps Foodservice Bid

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Vending Times
Issue Date: Vol. 51, No. 3, March 2011, Posted On: 2/26/2011 

Sodexo Wins $926M Marine Corps Foodservice Bid 

Emily Jed
Emily at vendingtimes.net 

GAITHERSBURG, MD -- Sodexo announced that it has won the bid for a single
contract of up to eight years each to provide foodservice at 31 U.S. Marine
Corps garrison mess halls in the continental U.S. 

The contract period represents up to $926 million in revenues.

More than a third of the dining facilities under contract, located in North
Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, DC, will be serviced
through partnership agreements with small, minority, disadvantaged and
women-owned businesses, and with organizations that represent the interests
of individuals with disabilities.