![]() “This bill will improve the WIC public-private partnership to more closely align with regular contracting norms to ensure transparency and access to high quality and safe product.” “I am excited to be introducing a bill which will lead to higher quality formulas for America’s mothers and their children as well as level the playing field for small and large formula manufacturers,” said Senator Marshall. Currently, an infant formula manufacturer would have to sift through all contract solicitations in all 50 states in order to make bids, this bill makes it a one-stop-shop process. (R-KS) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the WIC Healthy Beginnings Act to promote competition and quality for infant formula manufacturers by creating an online database administered through USDA to centralize state solicitations in order to streamline bids from formula manufacturers to state WIC programs.
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