Buy American Accommodation Plan SY 2025-2026

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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 Exception Form 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

Name: *

Email: *

Phone Number: *

SFA Name: *

Accommodation Requests

Please select all that apply for reasons for the accommodation from the threshold requirement (i.e. exceeding 10 percent): *

Timing of procurement cycle

Student preference/anticipated participation impacts

Items that help meet meal standards

Items that facilitate meal service models (e.g. grab n’ go, Breakfast in the Classroom)

Other

Other, please specify: *

Please select all categories of food that require an accommodation from the threshold requirement (i.e. exceeding 10 percent): *

Fruit

Vegetables

Fruit/Vegetable Juices

Cereals

Other

Other, please describe: *

Please briefly describe the anticipated timeline to make modifications to meet the Buy American requirements *

(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).

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