NIGP 24066: Meal Servers, Insulated

NIGP 24066 Meal Servers, Insulated is an Item code that covers insulated food transport and serving equipment used across state and local operations — primarily by fire departments, public safety agencies, and other emergency responders that operate around the clock. The code captures consumable and capital meal-service containers that maintain food temperature during storage and transport in operational settings. State and local buyers under this code span county fire rescue departments, city public safety operations, and regional cooperative purchasing entities that aggregate demand across multiple jurisdictions. The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, for example, includes meal servers and related consumable janitorial and operational supplies in standing as-needed contracts supporting their 47-station fire rescue operation; the estimated contract value was $765,679.84 for a one-year term posted in July 2026, with bids due July 24, 2026 under ITB2600319.

Recent activity under the code reflects procurement concentrated in Florida and the Pacific Northwest. Hillsborough County (Tampa, Florida) remains a significant buyer of operational supplies that include meal servers for Fire Rescue operations, with deliveries required to the Public Safety Operations Complex and performance standards tied to emergency-response readiness. Sourcewell, a Minnesota-based cooperative purchasing entity, issued RFP 061626 in May 2026 (proposals due June 16, 2026) for law enforcement equipment that serves thousands of participating entities across Washington state, multiple counties including Franklin, Grant, Grays Harbor, Chelan, and Yakima, and public agencies throughout the United States and Canada — indicating that meal-server and related operational-equipment procurement flows through both direct municipal and county contracts and through cooperative vehicles that standardize terms across multi-jurisdictional demand.