NIGP 39368: Peanut Butter

NIGP 39368 Peanut Butter is an Item code capturing shelf-stable peanut butter products that state and local governments procure for food service operations, senior services, and institutional feeding programs. Recent solicitations show peanut butter appearing as a line item within broader food-supply RFQs and IFBs, ranging from bulk quantities for state agency distribution to smaller quantities embedded in multi-hundred-line-item grocery and snack procurement. Issuing bodies span state purchasing offices, county governments, cities, school districts, and state health and human services agencies. State of Oregon, State of Illinois, State of Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners (Georgia), City of Bridgeport Board of Education (Connecticut), and Texas Department of Criminal Justice each have posted food-supply solicitations in the past four months that include peanut butter or peanut-based products. These jurisdictions treat peanut butter as a commodity input to larger food-service contracts rather than as a standalone procurement category, with brand-or-equal and equivalent-product specifications common across postings.

Geographic activity concentrates in the Southeast, Southwest, and Midwest, with recent opportunities posted from Georgia, Texas, Illinois, Oregon, and Connecticut. Representative opportunities include Gwinnett County's IWQ 140229 informal written quote (RFQ) for 1,062 cases of food items including peanut butter due October 19, 2026, delivered to Gwinnett Senior Services Center in Lawrenceville, Georgia; State of Oregon's solicitation S2910000018093 for bulk peanut butter due October 13, 2026; and the State of Illinois Chief Procurement Office's weekly food-order procurement (27497DVAQUINCB53752) for the Illinois Veterans Home at Quincy covering September through December FY-27, with responses due August 24, 2026. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice IFB 304T-26-300CF, issued May 4, 2026, encompassed approximately 382 line items of cafeteria food products across multiple warehouse locations but did not explicitly detail peanut butter quantities. School food-service operations and institutional feeding programs (veterans homes, state hospitals, senior services) represent the largest visible demand drivers within the code.