NCJ Number
191580
Journal
CTM-Corrections Technology & Management Volume: 5 Issue: 4 Dated: July/August 2001 Pages: 12-14
Date Published
2001
Length
3 pages
Annotation
This article provides information on Foodbuy, Inc., a service to help purchasers streamline the food purchasing process and identify manufacturer rebates available to loyal customers.
Abstract
Users can choose from more than 10,000 food and nonfood products from their favorite brand-name manufacturers and save through a program that offers rebates that this company negotiates, processes, monitors, collects, and distributes. Corrections is just one of the industries they help to streamline rebates offered on national-manufactured products. Correctional facilities are on limited budgets but are government mandated to give appropriate nutritional value to each inmate on a daily basis. When they receive additional monies, there are more dollars for additional food service equipment purchases or more food options. Foodbuy’s best potential clients in the corrections realm are those that are not on a bid system. However, every facility can benefit from this service. To sign up, users have to first visit their website: foodservice.com. They need to list their primary distributors and the distributor’s account number. The firm’s staff handles the rebates from there. Users continue ordering using their current purchasing system. Then the distributor electronically transmits a monthly report to the company, listing what has been purchased by the correctional facility. Foodbuy matches up which items have rebates and then sends the user a monthly summary of what they have earned. Then a quarterly check is sent showing what rebates they have earned. There is a $10 per month processing fee charged to users, which is automatically deducted from the rebate check. There are no limitations concerning how many or which suppliers correctional facilities can use to purchases a product. This company has several correctional facilities within its network, ranging from small city jails to State and Federal prisons. Foodbuy is researching the organization of a food-purchasing consortium among the southeastern food service directors at correctional facilities.