NIGP 019: Agricultural Crops and Grains, Including Fruits, Melons, Nuts, and Vegetables

NIGP 019 Agricultural Crops And Grains, Including Fruits, Melons, Nuts, And Vegetables is a Class code under which state and local governments procure fresh produce—fruits, vegetables, and specialty items—for food service programs, institutional meals, and facility operations. Recent solicitations show school districts, municipal food programs, and health care coalitions buying petite bananas, fresh fruit and vegetable snacks, general produce, and mixed agricultural commodities for child nutrition, CACFP meals, and institutional dining. The code captures both direct commodity purchases and agricultural land leases where produce cultivation is the operational requirement.

Issuing bodies include school districts (Madison Metropolitan School District), municipalities and city departments (City of Edinburg for CACFP meal service, City of Palm Bay for aquatic center operations), special-purpose agricultural districts (Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency for Natomas Basin leases), and health care coalitions (Marion Health Care Coalition). School districts appear as frequent buyers, driven by federal child nutrition and fresh fruit and vegetable program requirements. Recent activity spans Texas (Edinburg, Harris County), Florida (Palm Bay, Marion County), Wisconsin (Madison), Kentucky (Owensboro), and California (Sacramento Area), with greatest concentration in school districts across the Midwest and South. Representative solicitations include Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB 4162 for petite bananas (70–90 cases weekly, September 2026–June 2027, estimated value $78,000), RFB 4163 for fresh fruit and vegetable snacks sourced within 400 miles of Madison and Wisconsin (approximately 5,900 servings weekly for elementary students, September–November 2026 with optional extensions, with a 5% diverse-owned business preference), City of Edinburg's RFP 2026-017 for CACFP meal program supplies including beverages, paper goods, food products, and janitorial items for 400 children daily with local-vendor preference under Texas code, and Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency's RFP 2026-002 for agricultural leases on 460 acres across seven properties in the Natomas Basin (Alleghany, Novak, Hewitt, Pappa Rosa, South Sutter, Brookfield 1, and Brookfield 3), with lease rates ranging from $100 per planted acre to 15 percent of gross crop proceeds and effective dates January 1–December 31, 2027–2031.