NIGP 39049: Meat: Cured, Fresh, and Frozen

NIGP 39049 Meat: Cured, Fresh, and Frozen, Item tier, covers boneless and bone-in beef cuts, pork products, poultry (whole birds, parts, and processed forms), and processed meats—primarily beef steaks, pork ends and pieces, chicken leg quarters and strips, turkey, ham, bologna, franks, and beef patties—solicited by state departments of corrections, state health and human services agencies, school districts, county governments, and regional institutions for institutional food service. Corrections systems and state-supported living centers dominate this code's recent activity, with Georgia Correctional Industries, the Oregon Department of Corrections, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice issuing the largest volume of notices. These buyers typically solicit in bulk—40,000-pound truck increments for corrections facilities, 80,000 to 240,000 pounds for Oregon DOC poultry contracts, and case quantities for school districts—with firm, all-inclusive pricing that covers transportation and delivery to central distribution hubs or institutional kitchens. All-inclusive pricing models are standard; vendors bear freight and fuel surcharges with no separate line-item reimbursement. Specification responses must be detailed and itemized; generic compliance statements ("comply," "yes," checkmarks) render bids non-responsive.

Recent opportunities concentrate in Texas, Georgia, and Oregon. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice issued multiple IFBs for boneless beef strip steaks to prison facilities in Palestine, Corpus Christi, and Snyder (October 2026, due dates 20–21 October), and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission solicited food service groceries for state-supported living centers in Mexia and El Paso (August and June 2026). Georgia Correctional Industries posted serial eRFQ notices for bologna, franks, leg quarters, beef patties, ham, beef fat and trim, and pork ends and pieces (August–September 2026). The Oregon Department of Corrections issued multiple ITBs for poultry products including chicken leg quarters (120,000 pounds, August 2026, due 19 August), raw chicken strips (160,000–240,000 pounds, August 2026, due 26 August), ground poultry in bulk (160,000 pounds, August 2026, due 19 August), and boneless pork loin (September 2026). School districts and non-traditional buyers (Head Start of Greater Dallas, Gwinnett County, Collier County, Harlandale Independent School District, Nevada Youth Training Center) solicited smaller quantities of mixed food items or specialty products. Oregon applies 5% Oregon-fabrication and 5% resident-headquarters preferences on all poultry contracts; Texas and Georgia apply no specific geographic or enterprise-class preferences in the notices reviewed. Historical awards from Oregon DOC in 2026 ranged from $0.49 to $1.366 per pound depending on product type and volume. These are highly competitive ITBs and eRFQs with tight turnarounds (seven to fourteen days typical); electronic portal submission is now standard across all major buyers.