NIGP 39356: Grocers' Items: Cake Decorations, Candles, Canned Fuel, Food Preservatives, Matches, Meal Kits, Toothpicks, Meal Preparation Items, etc

NIGP 39356 Grocers' Items: Cake Decorations, Candles, Canned Fuel, Food Preservatives, Matches, Meal Kits, Toothpicks, Meal Preparation Items, Etc is an Item code covering the grocery consumables and meal-support products that state and local governments purchase for institutional feeding, retail food operations, and inmate commissary systems. Recent solicitations show buyers procuring frozen and fresh food for school nutrition programs, state hospital canteens, correctional facility commissary operations, and municipal grocery markets, alongside ancillary meal-preparation supplies such as packaging film and condiment items. Issuing bodies span independent school districts (Harlingen Consolidated ISD, Tattnall County Board of Education, Hancock County Board of Education, Coffee County School Nutrition Program), state departments (Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Michigan Department of Corrections, Georgia state procurement), county governments (Gwinnett County, Georgia), and special-purpose economic development entities (Invest Atlanta). School districts and state corrections and health agencies drive the bulk of recent activity under this code.

Geographic concentration appears strongest in Texas, Georgia, and Michigan, where multiple recent solicitations have posted. Representative opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission issuing IFB HHS0017803 for frozen food and canteen supplies at Rusk State Hospital (due August 10, 2026) with historical annual spend of $75,000; the Michigan Department of Technology, Management, and Budget soliciting RFP 260000001218 for prisoner store and commissary goods across 26 MDOC facilities statewide (due June 15, 2026, with a recommended $240 million five-year award to Keefe Commissary Network, LLC); Hancock County Board of Education issuing IFB #SN002-2027 for school nutrition grocery and food service supplies spanning over 1,200 line items (due June 26, 2026); and Invest Atlanta issuing a dual-track RFP for food distribution services and municipal market retail operations (due August 6, 2026). Texas implements HUB subcontracting plan requirements and preferences on certain solicitations; school districts impose Buy American provisions (over 51 percent domestic agricultural content) and require HACCP certification and liability insurance from vendors. Response deadlines cluster in June through October 2026.