Feeding South Florida seeks formal hearing after losing state food assistance bid
The Agriculture Department awarded the contract to rival food sharing service Farm Share.
Feeding South Florida has filed a written protest requesting a formal administrative hearing after losing a bidding process for a contract with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Nikki Fried, awarded a contract in late March for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (
Farm Share instead. TEFAP is organized under the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and aims to provide nutritious foods to low-income families.
That contract was granted through an RFP bidding process that Feeding South Florida argues was conducted improperly. Feeding South Florida specifically alleges Farm Share misrepresented its capacity to fulfill the deal.
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WMFE’s Danielle Prieur spoke with Farm Share’s Gil Zepeda about his projections for this year and how the organization is working with local farmers to put food on tables.
He says up to 500,000 people in Central Florida are food-insecure.
The conversation starts with Zepeda describing the current situation in the Orlando area.
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The event provided fresh meat, dairy and produce to families at Holden Heights Community Center today.
Lady Storm Foundation Founder Lily Storm says Farm Share donated 24 pallets of food from local farmers through the USDA’s Farmers to Families program for the event.
That’s around 144,000 boxes of fresh produce and other items that they could give out to families.
Pastor Ronae Cambridge has been operating a food pantry at Glory Temple in Liberty City for two decades. During the pandemic, they went from serving 400.