NIGP 38554: Juices

NIGP 38554 Juices, an Item code, covers the supply of ready-to-drink fruit and vegetable juices—including orange, apple, grape, and apple-cherry varieties in multiple container sizes—procured by state and local school districts and institutional food service providers to support child nutrition programs and facility operations. State and local governments buying under this code are primarily K-12 school districts of varying sizes, ranging from small rural systems to large urban districts, along with state institutional food service operations; school nutrition departments and child nutrition services departments drive the majority of procurements. Recent solicitations show school districts purchasing juices as part of broader beverage and milk portfolios (often bundled with dairy products), with juices specified to meet USDA standards, Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act nutrition requirements, and Smart Snacks guidelines, typically delivered multiple times weekly to central warehouses and individual school cafeterias. Buy American provisions requiring domestic agricultural content (generally 51 percent or greater) appear consistently across recent opportunities.

Geographic activity spans multiple states with recent solicitations posted from Connecticut, Illinois, Georgia, Texas, Florida, Missouri, and Virginia. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Bridgeport Board of Education (Connecticut) issuing IFB BNB052266 for grocery items with a June 30, 2026 response deadline, covering over 1,100 line items including beverages and requiring 48-hour emergency stock capability; the Illinois Department of Human Services posting small-purchase bid 27444DHSDEVDIB52815 on June 5, 2026 (due June 10) for juices to supply Shapiro Center in Kankakee for the second half of fiscal 2027; and the New Haven Board of Education (Connecticut) releasing RFP 2026HYRFPCNH366 on June 4, 2026 (due June 23) for dairy and juice products with a mandatory 25 percent MBE/WBE participation goal, estimated annual volumes of approximately 1 million juice units, and a pre-proposal meeting scheduled for June 9 via Microsoft Teams. The Pinellas County School District (Florida) solicited milk, dairy, and juice products via IFB 26JG021 with a June 11, 2026 response deadline and an estimated two-year contract value of $22.5 million including renewals. San Antonio Independent School District (Texas) posted RFP 26-010 for milk, dairy, and juice products in February 2026 with estimated annual juice quantities reaching 200,000 cases in certain categories.