NIGP 50590: Starches

NIGP Item 50590 Starches covers refined starch products and starch-based ingredients that state and local governments procure for food service, institutional dining, and manufacturing use. The work includes purchasing cornstarch, potato starch, tapioca starch, and other botanical starches used as thickening agents, binders, and processing ingredients in school cafeterias, correctional facilities, hospitals, and municipal kitchens. Issuing bodies soliciting under this code span school districts, state departments of corrections, county health and human services agencies, and municipal recreation and parks departments that operate food-service operations.

The source contains no recent state and local contract opportunities posted under NIGP Item 50590 Starches. Without posted solicitations, geographic concentration and representative buyer patterns cannot be characterized from current market activity.