NIGP 39346: Desserts: Packaged, Canned, and Mixes (Includes Cake Mixes, Gelatins, Icings, Pie Fillings, etc.)

NIGP 39346 Desserts: Packaged, Canned, and Mixes (Item) covers packaged cake mixes, gelatins, pudding products, pie fillings, and ready-to-serve dessert items that state and local governments procure for institutional food service, canteen operations, and child nutrition programs. Recent solicitations show state health and human services agencies, school districts, university food service operations, and correctional facilities purchasing these products in bulk quantities as components of broader food-supply contracts. Issuing bodies span state departments of health and human services, departments of corrections, state-supported living centers and hospitals, K–12 school districts, higher-education institutions, and county correctional facilities. Texas Health and Human Services Commission emerges as a repeat buyer, issuing multiple IFBs for consumable food products to state-supported living centers and state hospitals that include packaged dessert items alongside fresh and frozen products. The State of Illinois regularly procures food supplies through brand-specific weekly orders at veterans homes and through cooperative purchasing vehicles like ComWell. State of California Department of General Services operates statewide indefinite-quantity contracts for pudding mix, gelatin powders, and ready-to-serve pudding with estimated annual spending exceeding $974,000 across three product groups.

Recent activity concentrates in Texas, California, Illinois, and Wisconsin, with secondary activity in Georgia, Utah (Granite School District), and Oregon. Representative opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017449 for food and consumables to El Paso State Supported Living Center (due July 13, 2026), covering NIGP Classes 385, 390, 380, and 393 with $1.5 million historical annual spend; California DGS's IFB 0000038924 for statewide pudding mix, gelatin, and ready-to-serve pudding supply (bids due May 14, 2026) with three distinct product groups and combined estimated annual spending above $974,000; and Granite School District's IFB JB27–301 for sour cream, olive oil, and pancake/waffle mix with federally funded child nutrition requirements (due July 17, 2026). Texas HHS also issued IFB HHS0018082 for canteen and campus consumables at Lufkin State Supported Living Center (due October 23, 2026, at 10:30 a.m.) and IFB HHS0017872 for fiscal year 2027 consumables and noncontract food items covering 20 line items with annual usage ranging from 1 to 24 cases per item. Illinois Veterans Home at Quincy operates quarterly brand-specific food orders (solicitation 27497DVAQUINCB53751, due August 24, 2026). State Use Vendor awards like Illinois's ComWell bakery-mixes contract establish cooperative purchasing baselines for recurring institutional demand. Most contracts run annual terms with renewal or extension options; delivery terms typically require FOB Destination with freight prepaid by vendor or itemized separately, and response periods cluster around 7–30 days from posting.