State of California Bid Specification Dried Legumes

(Beans, Split Peas, and Lentils)

8915-TS-03288883

Attachment 2

Event ID 0000039980

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1.0 SCOPE

This bid specification establishes requirements for dried beans, green split peas and lentils packed in commercially acceptable containers suitable for use by State of California Institutions.

2.0 APPLICABLE LAWS and INDUSTRY STANDARDS

2.1 The products shall comply with all applicable Federal and State mandatory requirements and regulations relating to the preparation, packaging, labeling, storage, distribution, and sales of the product within the commercial marketplace.

2.2 The products shall be prepared in accordance with the 21 CFR §110, Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding Human Food.

2.3 The products shall comply with the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and regulations promulgated thereunder.

2.4 The products shall be produced, processed, and packaged by facilities operating under current licenses in good standing and in compliance with USDA or CDFA food safety requirements.

3.0 TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

3.1 GENERAL PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS

3.1.1 The legume products shall be Grade U.S. No. 2, or better, in accordance with the most recent, applicable USDA, United States Standards for Beans, Split Peas or Lentils.

3.1.2 The products shall be dried.

3.1.3 The products shall not contain live weevils, other live insects, insect webbing or filth, metal fragments, broken glass or other material restricted under the U.S.

Grade Standards.

3.1.4 The products shall be free from musty, sour, and commercially objectionable odor. A musty odor shall be any odor that is earthy, moldy, and ground-like. A sour odor shall be any odor that is rotten, sharp, or bitter. A commercially objectionable odor shall be any odor that is not normal to the product and that, because of its presence, renders the product unfit for normal commercial usage.

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3.1.5 The products shall have good color. Products shall be practically free from discoloration and have the uniform natural color and appearance characteristics of the predominating legume type. Discoloration (off-color) caused from other than natural aging and natural causes shall not be acceptable.

3.1.6 The products shall be well screened in their general appearance, shall be uniform in size and practically free from small, dried-up, underdeveloped, splits, broken or excessively large units.

3.2 THE DRIED LEGUMES SHALL BE DIVIDED INTO CLASSES AS DESCRIBED

BELLOW:

3.2.1 Light Red Kidney Beans (including the type grown on the Pacific Coast):

Seeds that are medium to large, long, broad, somewhat kidney shaped, may be rather flattened, ends rounded and light to reddish brown in color.

3.2.2 Dark Red Kidney Beans: Seeds that are large, oblong to kidney shaped, somewhat flattened, ends rounded, eye small, flat, and dark red in color.

3.2.3 Baby Lima Beans (characteristic of small white Lima beans of the Henderson Bush and similar types): Seeds that are small, short, broad, somewhat triangular, flattened, surface somewhat wrinkled, one end usually broader and more gradually rounded than the other, and pale creamy white in color.

3.2.4 Pink Beans: Seeds that are medium-sized, thin, and light salmon pink in color with rather obscure light brown eye ring.

3.2.5 Pinto Beans (including the Mexican pinto type, but not the type known as spotted red Mexican): Seeds that are medium-large, somewhat flattened, and light brown in color, tinted salmon with narrow curved streaks of darker brown or mahogany red.

3.2.6 Small (California) Red Beans (known also as red Mexican, and Idaho red):

Seeds that are small, very broad, oval, reddish purple in color over the entire surface and marked with a very narrow, black eye ring.

3.2.7 Small White Beans (the type grown on the Pacific Coast, not including Tepary beans): Seeds that are small, shaped somewhat triangular, flattened, one end somewhat larger and broader than the other, both ends rounded but the small end more abruptly, and white in color.

3.2.8 Black-eye Beans (Black-eye peas/cowpeas of the Black-eye variety):

Cowpeas of the Brown-eye and Violet-eye types shall also be considered as Black-eye beans. Seeds that are medium, slightly flattened, skin wrinkled, and white in color with large black, brown, or violet spots surrounding the eye.

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3.2.9 Green Split Peas: Threshed seeds of the garden pea plant (Pisum sativum L.

and Pisum sativum var. arvense (L.) Poir). Green split peas are from garden varieties which have green-colored cotyledons.

3.2.10 Lentils: Dockage-free, dried lentils are threshed seeds of the lentil plant. They are lens shaped, generally from 2mm (5/64”) to 9mm (3/8”) in diameter. Seed color shall be brown. The seed surface is generally smooth but on some large seeds may be wrinkled.

3.3 GRADE REQUIREMENTS for BEANS

3.3.1 Products shall be in accordance with USDA, U.S. Standards for Beans effective July 2023, as described in Table 1.

Table 1. MAXIMUM PERCENT (by WEIGHT) LIMITS of US GRADE No. 2 BEANS.

Class of Beans Moisture

(%) (1) Total

Defects (%) Total

(Badly) Damaged (%)

Total foreign Material (%)

Stones Contrasting Classes (%) (2)

Red Kidney 18.0 4.0 4.0 1.0 0.4 1.0 Baby Lima (3) 18.0 4.0 1.5 1.0 0.3 1.0 Pink Bean 18.0 4.0 4.0 1.0 0.4 1.0 Pinto Bean 18.0 5.0 5.0 1.0 0.4 1.0 Small Red 18.0 4.0 4.0 1.0 0.4 1.0 Small White 18.0 4.0 4.0 1.0 0.4 1.0 Black-eye Beans 18.0 6.0 4.0 1.0 0.4 1.0

(1) Beans with more than 18% moisture are graded high moisture (special grade beans) and do not meet the requirements for US Grade No. 2 or better.

(2) Beans of other classes that are of a different color, size, or shape from the beans of the class designated.

(3) Baby Lima: Maximum limit of Splits: 4.0%, Max. limits of Blistered, Wrinkled, and/or broken: 4.0%.

3.4 GRADE REQUIEREMENTS for SPLIT PEAS

3.4.1 Products shall be in accordance with USDA, U.S. Standards for Split peas effective July 2023, as described in Table 2.

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Table 2. MAXIMUM PERCENT LIMITS of US No. 2 PEAS.

Grading Factors Maximum percent Split Peas Passing Through 10/64" Round-hole Sieve 15.0 8/64" Round-Hole Sieve 3.0 6/64" Round-Hole Sieve 0.2 Defective Peas Weevil-Damaged Split Peas 1.0 Heat Damaged Split Peas 0.5 Damaged Split Peas (1) 1.5 Contrasting color peas in Green Split Peas 0.8 Whole Peas 1.0 White caps in Green Split Peas 2.0 Bleached Peas in Green Split Peas 3.0 Foreign Material 0.2 Moisture (2) 15 Minimum Requirement for Color Fair

(1) Damaged split peas do not include weevil damaged or heat damaged split peas.

(2) Split peas with more than 15.0% moisture by weight are considered US Sample Grade products which do not meet the requirements for grade US No. 2 or better.

3.5 GRADE REQUIREMENTS for LENTILS

3.5.1 Products shall be in accordance with USDA, U.S. Standards for Lentils effective July 2023, as described in Table 3.

Table 3. MAXIMUM PERCENT LIMITS of US No. 2 LENTILS.

Grading Factors Maximum Percent Defective Lentils Total (1) 3.5 Weevil Damaged Lentils 0.8 Heat Damaged Lentils 0.5 Foreign Material Total (2) 0.5 Stones 0.2 Skinned Lentils 7.0 Wrinkled Lentils (3) 10.0 Contrasting Lentils (4) 4.0 Inconspicuous Admixture 0.8 Requirements Minimum Requirement for Color Fair Moisture (5) 14.0

(1) Defective lentils total is weevil damaged, heat damaged, damaged, and split lentils combined.

(2) Foreign material total includes stones.

(3) Lentils with more than 10.0 percent wrinkled lentils shall grade no higher than U.S. No. 2.

(4) Lentils with more than 4.0 percent contrasting lentils shall grade no higher than U.S. No. 2.

(5) Lentils with more than 14.0% moisture by weight are considered US Sample Grade and do not meet the requirements for Grade US No. 2 or better.

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4.0 INSPECTION and CERTIFICATION

4.1 Inspection

4.1.1 It is required that the products are inspected and certified in the final packaging as required by this solicitation (50 pounds bags) by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS).

The inspection program shall consist of grade and weight inspections in accordance with the applicable USDA standards and associated documents and terminology. The supplier shall notify the USDA of the need for inspection, giving full details as to the applicable contract and specifications.

4.2 Certification

4.2.1 Upon completion of the inspection, the supplier shall obtain the FGIS issued official grade certificate (“Official White Certificate”). An “Official Pink Certificate”, for submitted sample inspections is not acceptable.

4.2.2 The supplier shall provide a copy of the certificate accompanying the delivery.

Failure of the supplier to furnish a certificate with delivery may cause the delivery to be rejected.

4.2.3 The supplier shall provide a copy of the Official White Certificate indicating grade and weight to the Department of General Services, Procurement Division, Contract Administrator (buyer).

4.3 Time Limits of Inspection

4.3.1 Inspections Certificates for dried products shall have been issued no more than twelve (12) months prior to the date of delivery.

4.3.2 Products which have been in storage for longer than twelve (12) months will require re-inspection.

4.4 Inspection Cost

4.4.1 Re-inspection (up-to date inspection) is required at the supplier’s expense if the original certificate date exceeds the time limits indicated above.

4.4.2 All inspections costs shall be paid by the supplier. If a re-inspection is required (other than that in section 4.3.2, above), the State agency or agencies involved shall bear the costs if the product passes and the supplier shall bear the costs if the product fails re-inspection.

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PRESERVATION, PACKAGING, LABELING and MARKING

4.5 PRESERVATION.

All products shall be manufactured, packaged, and delivered to ensure a minimum of 120 (calendar) days’ post-delivery shelf life for each purchaser. The 120-day period shall start at the time of acceptance by each facility.

4.6 PACKAGING.

The products shall be packed in accordance with the sizes and styles in the solicitation line items. Typical packaging is 50 lb. multi-wall bags.

4.7 LABELING.

As a minimum, the exterior of each shipping case shall be labeled with the product’s name, brand name, net weight, unit count and included a clearly visible end of shelf-life date and a manufacturer’s lot/batch number. If cases contain additional cartons or boxes all information shall be duplicated on each container.

4.8 MARKING.

Each unit label shall include the type of bean, manufacturer, weight, pack date and Identification Code issued on the “Official White Certificate” issued by the FGIS.

5.0 ACCEPTANCE and TESTING

5.1 ACCEPTANCE.

At the time of delivery or inspection, the State may review the product to ensure the product meets requirements set forth in this specification.

5.2 TESTING.

In the event the product does not meet this specification or appears to be substandard, the supplier will be notified, and the State may require the product to be submitted to a qualified lab of the State’s to choose for testing. If product fails inspection or testing, the supplier shall bear the costs of the analysis.