UNSPSC 50182001: Fresh cakes or pies or pastries

UNSPSC 50182001 Fresh cakes or pies or pastries (Commodity) covers bakery goods and prepared dessert items supplied to state agencies, school districts, and other public institutions. Recent solicitations show state and local governments procuring fresh and packaged bakery items—bread, rolls, pastries, cakes, and related products—for institutional food service, cafeteria operations, and event catering. The issuing bodies soliciting under this code are predominantly state health and human services departments (Texas Health and Human Services Commission) and school districts (Katy Independent School District), with one city procurement (Philadelphia). The work includes supplying bread and bakery products to state hospitals and supported living centers, providing catering and food services to school district events and operations, and furnishing specialty bakery items for institutional meal programs.

Texas Health and Human Services Commission dominates recent activity, having posted multiple IFBs for bread and bakery products since June 2026, including IFB HHS0017445 (response due July 13, 2026) covering over 50 bread and bakery line items for state hospitals and supported living centers statewide with an anticipated annual value of $1 million, and a revised version HHS0017445V2 (response due August 19, 2026). The City of Philadelphia issued a micro-purchase IFB B2728003 for food and beverages including fresh pastries for the Kensington Blitz event (response due September 15, 2026). Katy Independent School District (Harris County, Texas) solicited restaurant catering and mobile food services via RFP 2402AK-B (response due June 15, 2026), which included bakery and pastry items as part of broader food service vendor expansion. Geographic activity centers on Texas, with secondary activity in Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vendors responding to state-level opportunities must typically quote at least 90 to 100 percent of specified line items, maintain firm fixed pricing, meet strict delivery windows and temperature controls, and carry complaint resolution and warranty obligations that include investigation cost absorption and 90-day resolution timelines.