NIGP 393: Foods: Staple Grocery and Grocer's Miscellaneous Items

NIGP 393 Foods: Staple Grocery and Grocer's Miscellaneous Items, a Class code, encompasses fresh, frozen, refrigerated, and shelf-stable grocery products that state and local governments procure for institutional feeding, corrections, child nutrition, and community food access programs. Recent solicitations under this code show demand for dairy products, frozen meats and vegetables, canned goods, condiments, breakfast and cereal products, pasta, juice, baking supplies, and seasonings — typically sourced through competitive bids with compressed response windows, often one to three days from posting to close. The Ohio Department of Administrative Services and the State of Utah Division of Purchasing (on behalf of the Utah Department of Corrections) are the most active state-level buyers in the current opportunity set; school districts including Northside Independent School District (San Antonio, Texas) and the County of Orange, California also procure under this code. Issuing bodies span state purchasing departments, school districts, and correctional agencies across multiple jurisdictions.

Ohio dominates recent activity, with over two dozen postings posted between October 2 and October 19, 2026 — nearly all with one- to three-day response windows and minimal scope detail in the posting records. Utah's State Division of Purchasing issued a multi-award RFP (RR27105) due October 20, 2026 for second-market food products (surplus, short-dated, overstock items) to supply prison facilities and community correctional centers statewide, with technical scoring (1,000 points across company experience, product sourcing, food safety, and logistics) and cost evaluation determining awards; the contract anticipates multiple vendors with subsequent orders through competitive quotes. Texas issued RFP 2710-001 due November 3, 2026 for mobile grocer and farm stand services. Northside Independent School District (San Antonio) solicited miscellaneous items for child nutrition (RFP2026133) due November 4, 2026 with shipping included in the bid. The Illinois Department of Central Management Services extended its Joint Purchase Master Contract (JPMC) for Food and Grocery Items through February 28, 2027 via change order (27416CMSBOSS4B54488), a non-competitive continuation while a competitive RFP remains under protest. Most Ohio postings lack issuing-body specificity, scope detail, and contract values in the available records, making individual pursuit assessment difficult without accessing full solicitation documents directly from the Ohio Procurement Office or agency-specific portals.