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| MCCS South Carolina Business Practices How to conduct business aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) Parris Island and Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort: All persons or companies wishing to sell food, merchandise, or services aboard the local Marine Corps installations may only do so after they have been awarded a contract through fair and open competition. Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) is the agency that will conduct the competition and award the contract. MCCS is a non-appropriated fund instrumentality of the Federal government and an integral part of the United States Marine Corps. MCCS's mission is to take care of Marines, Sailors, and their families by providing a wide variety of programs to include retail stores, services, food outlets, child development centers, youth centers, recreational activities, health and wellness programs, fitness centers, organized sports activities, clinical counseling, single Marine programs, and family team building programs. The process begins when the installation commander, along with MCCS, decide that a particular type of business would be beneficial to the Marines, Sailors, and their families. Then the MCCS Procurement Office issues a Request for Proposals (RFP) inviting all persons and companies that might be able to provide the wanted goods or services to submit an offer. Offers are then judged according to a set of criteria germane to type of proposed business. Other considerations will include the amount of commission that the business would offer to pay MCCS and the offeror's financial resources and their proven ability to conduct their particular type of business. |
