Juice, Cranberry Juice Cocktail, Shelf Stable, Minimum 10% Fruit Juice, Delivery Zone 5, Huntsville… and 1 more item

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division awarded a purchase order valued at $37,238.00 to The Royal Pacific Tea Company Inc., a Scottsdale, Arizona-based supplier, on August 12, 2026. The contract covers the delivery of shelf-stable beverage products to the Huntsville Commissary Warehouse in Huntsville, Texas under Contract 300-CM, a term contract with a seven-day delivery window. The awarded products consist of 1,400 cases of 100% orange juice at $21.39 per case (totaling $29,946.00) and 400 cases of cranberry juice cocktail with minimum 10% fruit juice content at $18.23 per case (totaling $7,292.00).

Each delivered case contains 24 individual items of 11.5 ounces, with a minimum order quantity of 100 cases applicable to the orange juice line item. Both products are supplied under the Florida's Natural brand and meet specified shelf-stable requirements for institutional commissary operations. The purchase order was processed through the Comptroller of Public Accounts Statewide Procurement Division, with delivery coordination managed by designated agency personnel. As a state entity, the Department of Criminal Justice is exempt from federal excise taxes and sales taxes under Texas Tax Code Section 151.309(4).