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Buy American Accommodation Plan SY 2025-2026

Buy American Accommodation Plan SY 2025-2026

The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has implemented the first threshold limit for non-domestic food purchases to be implemented beginning in SY 2025-2026. Non-domestic food purchases by the SFAs cannot exceed the annual threshold, which for SY 2025-2026 is 10 percent of total commercial food expenditures. This is intended to shift more purchases to domestic products ( 7 CFR 210.21(d)(5)(ii)(A) and 7 CFR 220.16(d)(5)(ii)(A)). More information on the accommodation can be found below:

This form is not an exemption from completing the Buy American Exceptions Summary Tool required for purchases.

By completing this form, the SFA requests an accommodation for SY25-26 that allows them to exceed the 10 percent threshold, upon approval from the state agency.

School Food Authority (SFA) Information
Accommodation Requests
Please select all that apply for reasons for the accommodation from the threshold requirement (i.e. exceeding 10 percent):
Please select all categories of food that require an accommodation from the threshold requirement (i.e. exceeding 10 percent):
(this could include timing of calculating the baseline percentage of non-domestic food purchases (or include the baseline percentage if available), obtaining documentation, and balancing the accommodation and exception process with making menu changes).