UNSPSC 73131607: Butcher services

UNSPSC 73131607 Butcher services (Commodity) encompasses food preparation and meal service operations that state and local governments procure through food service management contracts, institutional dining programs, and emergency catering arrangements. Recent solicitations show that governments buy comprehensive food management services—meal planning, preparation, and delivery across institutional settings including schools, jails, colleges, nursing facilities, and emergency response operations—rather than traditional butchering or meat-cutting alone. The code appears as a catch-all tag for food service procurement spanning labor-intensive operational contracts where a single vendor assumes responsibility for sourcing, preparing, and serving meals to defined populations under regulatory oversight.

Issuing bodies across the code are highly fragmented: school districts (DuBois Integrity Academy, Savannah Classical Academy, Klein ISD, Gateway Early College High School, Phoenix College Preparatory Academy), county governments (Williamson County, Harris County, Beaufort County, Whitfield County, Marion County, Kenosha County, Collier County, New London), state agencies (New Mexico Department of Public Safety), transit authorities (MARTA), municipal government divisions (City of Cocoa, Tampa Convention Center), and public college systems (Dalton State College). No single issuing body dominates; activity is spread across education, corrections, higher education, emergency management, and parks operations. Geographic spread spans multiple regions with recent activity in Georgia (Invest Atlanta, Savannah Classical Academy, MARTA Clayton County, Whitfield County, Dalton State College), Texas (Harris County, Williamson County, San Antonio Pre-K 4 SA, Region One ESC), Florida (Tampa Convention Center, Marion County schools, Collier County, City of Cocoa, Broward County), Colorado (Boulder County), Connecticut (City of New London), Oregon (Washington County), Arizona (Gateway Early College, Phoenix College Preparatory Academy), Wisconsin (Kenosha County), South Carolina (Beaufort County), and New Mexico (Department of Public Safety). Representative recent opportunities include Invest Atlanta's dual-track RFP (posted July 6, 2026, due August 6, 2026) for food distribution services and retail grocery market operations in Priority Communities, with separate Category A and B tracks offering economic development incentives; the Tampa Convention Center's re-bid RFP (posted June 29, 2026, due July 27, 2026) for comprehensive food and beverage services supporting 350,000+ annual guests; Beaufort County's RFP for detention center food services (posted June 22, 2026, due June 22, 2026) with one-year initial term and four renewal options; Harris County Juvenile Probation's RFP (posted March 27, 2026, due April 27, 2026) for food services across four facilities with fixed $22.00/hour minimum wages and HACCP-based compliance audits; and Williamson County's RFP for jail food services (posted February 12, 2026, due April 15, 2026) with a $1.21 million annual budget and four-year initial term.