NIGP 96119: Food Trucks and Mobile Catering Carts

NIGP 96119 Food Trucks And Mobile Catering Carts, an Item code, encompasses mobile food service operations that state and local governments procure for campus dining, emergency response, special events, workforce training, and park concessions. Recent solicitations show this code capturing everything from full-service food truck scheduling and management at county administrative campuses to emergency meal delivery via mobile kitchens during hurricanes, workforce development training programs for aspiring food truck entrepreneurs, and seasonal food truck vendor rotations at municipal parks. State and local buyers under this code span university athletics departments, school districts, county parks and recreation departments, city procurement offices, state agencies, and special-purpose districts; repeat buyers in the recent activity include Katy Independent School District (supplemental RFP for restaurant catering and mobile food services issued twice within six weeks), Williamson County Texas (food truck management and scheduling), and multiple Florida municipalities procuring emergency catering capabilities via food trucks or mobile kitchens.

Geographic activity is concentrated in Texas (Katy ISD, Williamson County, Dallas, Temple, New London, San Mateo County California, and multiple Florida jurisdictions including Collier County, Sarasota, and Palm Beach), with secondary activity in Georgia, New York, and Connecticut. Representative recent solicitations include Williamson County's RFP for food truck scheduling and management services (RFP 26RFP34, due May 4, 2026), seeking a vendor to recruit, vet, and schedule rotating food trucks at a county administrative campus serving 200+ employees and daily public visitors; Katy ISD's supplemental RFP 2402AK-B for restaurant catering, delivery, and mobile food services (due June 15, 2026), establishing an expanded vendor pool for food truck and catering support to multiple campuses; Collier County Florida's RFP for emergency catering services (posted June 25, 2026, due January 16, 2026—note: deadline appears retroactive in source), requesting vendors capable of on-site mobile kitchen deployment or boxed meal delivery during disaster scenarios; and San Mateo County Parks Department's informal RFP for seasonal food truck vendors at Memorial Park (due June 5, 2026), offering non-exclusive vending authorization with local business preference and revenue retention by vendors. Contract terms typically span one to five years with renewal options, and compensation models vary from revenue-share arrangements (vendor retains sales proceeds) to per-meal fixed pricing to hybrid mark-up structures, reflecting the diversity of public sector food service objectives.