NIGP 09080: Slicers, Bread

NIGP 09080 Slicers, Bread is an Item code that frames a narrow commodity category, but state and local procurement under this code occurs within much broader grocery and foodservice solicitations where bread slicers appear as line items among hundreds of food products and equipment. The City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, for example, recently solicited grocery items (BNB052266, IFB, due June 30, 2026) spanning over 1,100 line items for the Bridgeport Board of Education's Food & Nutrition Services Department — breakfast items, cereals, baked goods, frozen products, condiments, produce, dairy, and meat — where bread and bread-related equipment sit alongside the broader foodservice supply base. School districts dominate the issuing-body mix under this code, as they operate high-volume foodservice operations subject to National School Lunch Program compliance, Buy American Provision requirements (minimum 51% domestic agricultural ingredients), and Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act nutrition standards. Cities and counties procure under the code as well when they support school food services or operate institutional foodservice operations, though the recent opportunity block shows limited geographic spread in the available data.

The Bridgeport solicitation illustrates the real procurement context: bread slicers (if specified at all in such notices) are subsumed within comprehensive grocery and foodservice equipment bids that require vendors to accept orders through LINQ School Solutions or similar platforms, maintain emergency backup stock with 24-hour delivery capability, deliver Monday through Friday between 8:00 am and 2:00 pm to central warehouses and designated school sites, and meet extensive documentation requirements including USDA compliance statements, state health inspection records, commercial general liability insurance at $1,000,000 per occurrence, and blind laboratory testing of samples. Connecticut shows the only recent solicitation activity in the source data; whether the code sees activity in other states or regions cannot be determined from the available records.