UNSPSC 12164501: Preservatives

UNSPSC 12164501 Preservatives (Commodity) encompasses food additives and preservatives that state and local governments procure primarily through school nutrition programs, correctional facilities, and health-care institutions for meal preparation and canteen operations. Recent solicitations show that state and local buyers under this code are purchasing frozen food items with preservative components, packaged meal components, candy and food products for institutional canteens, and commissary supplies for correctional facilities — typically as line items within broader grocery and food-service RFQs and IFBs rather than as standalone preservative procurements. The issuing bodies are predominantly school districts (Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District in Texas, Tattnall County Board of Education in Georgia, Hancock County Board of Education in Georgia, Coffee County School Nutrition Program in Georgia), state corrections departments (Michigan Department of Corrections), state health and human services agencies (Texas Health and Human Services Commission for Rusk State Hospital), and county health departments (Gwinnett County, Georgia). School nutrition programs represent the heaviest recent activity, with multiple districts soliciting school-year grocery contracts that include preserved and packaged food items.

Recent opportunities span Texas, Georgia, and Michigan. Representative solicitations include Harlingen Consolidated ISD's GROC1026 bid for local groceries and miscellaneous store shelf items (due October 1, 2026), the Texas HHS Commission's IFB HHS0017803 for frozen food and canteen supplies at Rusk State Hospital (due August 10, 2026), Gwinnett County's IWQ 134178 request for quotations on meal packaging film rolls (due August 7, 2026), Hancock County Board of Education's School Nutrition Grocery Supplier IFB (due June 26, 2026 with over 1,200 line items across proteins, produce, dairy, and grains), and the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget's RFP 260000001218 for prison commissary services, which awarded a $240 million five-year contract to Keefe Commissary Network, LLC in September 2026. Geographic activity clusters in the Southeast (Georgia school districts and Texas state agencies) and the Great Lakes (Michigan corrections operations), with isolated activity in Texas institutions and Georgia counties.