UNSPSC 50161815: Chewing gum

UNSPSC 50161815 Chewing gum, a Commodity code, sees minimal recent activity tied directly to its nominal scope in state and local procurement. The recent opportunities tagged to this code overwhelmingly reflect food and beverage procurement for institutional settings—canteens at state-supported living centers, state hospitals, veterans homes, and jail commissaries—where chewing gum appears as a line item within much broader snack and confection purchases rather than as a standalone procurement category. State and local issuing bodies soliciting under this code include Texas Health and Human Services Commission, the Illinois Chief Procurement Office, Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology, Marion County, Oregon, and the State of Georgia. The work encompasses fixed-price supply contracts for candy, beverages, prepared foods, and related commissary items delivered on recurring schedules to facilities with ongoing populations of residents, patients, veterans, or incarcerated individuals.

Texas Health and Human Services Commission has posted multiple iterations of canteen snack contracts for Mexia State Supported Living Center (HHS0017722, HHS0017722_V2, and HHS0017722_V3) and for Big Spring State Hospital (HHS0017656) as IFBs with firm, fixed pricing, most recently due September 9, 2026, covering roughly 130 line items with historical annual spend of $55,000 to $75,000 per facility and contract terms running September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2027. The Illinois Chief Procurement Office has solicited weekly food orders for the Illinois Veterans Home at Quincy under a brand-or-equal specification (due August 24, 2026), and the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology issued a small-business set-aside ITB for state fair supplies including stress toys and candy (due July 7, 2026). Marion County, Oregon approved a special procurement with Keefe Commissary Network, LLC for jail commissary and trust accounting services (closing July 16, 2026). The State of Georgia posted a food supplies bid on May 15, 2026 with a June 22, 2026 deadline. The code shows scattered activity across Texas, Illinois, Oregon, and Georgia, with no single jurisdiction dominating and no pattern of repeat chewing gum–specific solicitations; the code appears to function as a catch-all taxonomy tag for multi-item institutional food and beverage contracts rather than discrete chewing gum procurement.