UNSPSC 50203205: Raw cow milk

Raw milk from a cow

UNSPSC 50203205 Raw cow milk, a Commodity code, covers the supply of fluid milk products—including whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, fat-free, lactose-free, and flavored varieties in multiple container sizes from half-pints to five-gallon dispensers—to state and local institutional food service operations, school nutrition programs, and correctional facilities. State and local issuers soliciting under this code span school districts, state departments of corrections and health services, county boards of education, youth training centers, and correctional facilities; school nutrition programs dominate recent activity, with multiple Georgia school districts (Coweta, Glynn, Hall, Tattnall, Hancock, Dawson-Lumpkin, and Henry County boards of education) and Florida's Pinellas and Seminole County school districts soliciting in the past four months alone. Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Colorado Department of Corrections, Nevada Youth Training Center, and Montgomery County (Pennsylvania) Correctional Facility represent institutional nonschool buyers. Representative recent solicitations include Tattnall County Board of Education's IFB for School Nutrition Program milk and dairy products due July 22, 2026; Head Start of Greater Dallas, Inc.'s IFB 26-MK for fluid milk products and yogurt across multiple Dallas County sites due June 24, 2026, with a pre-bid conference on April 16, 2026; Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017418 for statewide dairy products covering 20 facilities across Texas with an estimated annual value of $1.6 million over the initial two-year contract period, due July 15, 2026; and Pinellas County School District's RFP for milk, dairy, and juice products across 117 district facilities valued at approximately $22.5 million for the initial two-year period, due June 11, 2026.

Geographic activity concentrates heavily in Georgia and Texas, with significant recent solicitations also posted in Florida, Colorado, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and California. Most school-based opportunities run one-year initial terms with multiple optional renewal periods (typically up to four additional one-year renewals); pricing is typically firm for the initial period with subsequent adjustments permitted quarterly based on USDA Agricultural Marketing Service reports or Consumer Price Index data. Buy American provisions requiring 51 percent domestic agricultural content are standard across school nutrition procurements. Vendor qualifications typically require general liability insurance ($1 million per occurrence minimum), HACCP food safety documentation, E-Verify compliance, and proof of delivery capability, including refrigerated transportation and weekly or twice-weekly delivery schedules. Multiple awards are common, with school districts frequently contracting with primary, secondary, and tertiary suppliers simultaneously. No specific set-asides for disadvantaged enterprises appear in the recent opportunities, though small-business and minority/woman-owned-business status factors into scoring or evaluation in some cases, and a few jurisdictions (such as Colorado CDOC) explicitly offer preference for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses.