UNSPSC 50171901: Pickles

UNSPSC 50171901 Pickles, a Commodity code, covers pickled vegetables and related preserved vegetable products supplied to support food service operations across state agencies, school districts, institutional facilities, and municipal programs. State and local governments procure pickles as line items within broader food service contracts—notably school nutrition programs, institutional cafeteria operations at state-supported living centers and correctional facilities, child and adult care food programs, and municipal grocery distribution initiatives. The work is straightforward supply fulfillment: vendors quote unit pricing on specified products, meet packaging and delivery windows, comply with USDA grade and food safety standards, and deliver on established schedules to multiple sites or centralized warehouses.

Recent opportunities span Oregon, Texas, Georgia, and Connecticut, with school districts and state health and human services agencies as the primary issuing bodies. The Oregon Department of Administrative Services posted a pickle supply RFP (S2910000018089) due October 13, 2026, covering pickled vegetables for state agencies with demand-driven quantities and a mandatory bidders' conference. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission included pickles and pickled vegetables within broader food service grocery bids for Mexia State Supported Living Center (IFBs HHS0017799 and HHS0017798, due August 25, 2026) and statewide supplemental food procurement (IFB HHS0016792V2, due March 19, 2026, with a potential three-year value of $4.5 million). Multiple Georgia school districts—Tattnall County, Candler County, Colquitt County, Effingham County, and Richmond County—have solicited food products including pickles as line items within school nutrition bids for the 2026–2027 school year (IFBs and RFQs with submission dates between May and July 2026). The Bridgeport Board of Education (Connecticut) included pickled and condiment items in a grocery procurement (BNB052266, due June 30, 2026) spanning over 1,100 line items. Pickles are rarely standalone procurements; they appear as individual line items within large food service contracts where volume is modest and pricing is firm, fixed, and subject to commodity-market escalation clauses tied to USDA or Consumer Price Index data.