NIGP 39359: Jams, Jellies, and Preserves

NIGP 39359 Jams, Jellies, and Preserves is an Item code describing individual-serving jelly packets supplied to institutional food-service operations—primarily state correctional facilities and human-services institutions. State and local governments procure these products as part of blanket or term agreements covering recurring meal-service supply to kitchens, food-service warehouses, and dining operations. The issuing bodies are state agencies with institutional food-service operations: the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, and the Texas Department of State Supported Living Centers are the primary buyers in the recent solicitation record.

Recent activity concentrates in Texas, where the TDCJ has issued four separate blanket-purchase solicitations for assorted-flavor jelly packets—covering the Beeville, Snyder, Wynne, and Rosharon distribution centers—all posted July 13, 2026, with response due July 27, 2026 (solicitations IW258288, IW258289, IW258290, and IW258292). The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is simultaneously procuring food and consumable products including jelly under IFB HHS0017449, posted June 11, 2026, with a prior-period historical value of $1.5 million; responses are due July 13, 2026. Vendors must register and submit bids electronically through the TDCJ Bonfire procurement portal (https://tdcj.bonfirehub.com); the procurement contact for TDCJ solicitations is Leslie Bowers, CTCD, at Leslie.Bowers@tdcj.texas.gov. Pricing is submitted as unit costs on a firm fixed-price basis, with flexible ordering quantities under blanket structure. No geographic spread outside Texas appears in the recent record; activity is concentrated within state correctional and health-services institutional procurement.