UNSPSC 50301535: Granny smith apples

The variety of apples known as granny smith apples

UNSPSC 50301535 Granny Smith apples is a Commodity code representing fresh produce specifically sourced for K–12 school nutrition programs, early childhood care centers, senior services, and institutional food operations across state and local jurisdictions. The code captures demand for individual apple varieties meeting USDA nutrition standards and food safety certifications (HACCP, GAP) within regional supply chains managed by produce distributors and farm-to-school vendors. State and local procurement under this code spans school districts (the dominant issuing body), county boards of education, independent school districts, school nutrition consortia and cooperatives, municipal departments of human services operating senior nutrition programs, child care networks running CACFP programs, and special-purpose districts. School districts dominate by volume and frequency; recent opportunities show particular concentration among Georgia school systems (Bryan County, Bulloch County, Dougherty County, Early County, Glynn County, Hancock County, Henry County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, and Savannah-Chatham County) reflecting statewide procurement coordination and multi-district cooperative purchasing vehicles.

Geographic activity centers on the Southeast, with Georgia representing the highest concentration of recent solicitations followed by Texas, Florida, Connecticut, Oregon, Mississippi, and California. Recent representative opportunities include Bryan County School Nutrition (sealed bid for 1,024 cases of apples across multiple varieties, due May 27, 2026), Dougherty County Board of Education (sealed bid for fresh produce including apples as line items among 40 produce items, due June 16, 2026, at Albany, Georgia), Bulloch County School District (RFP for locally-grown produce including apples sourced within 200 miles, due May 4, 2026), Hancock County Board of Education (IFB for 200+ line items of fresh produce including multiple apple varieties—Ambrosia, Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith, Honey Crisp, Jazz—due June 26, 2026), and GEC Buying Cooperative serving 30 Georgia school districts (RFP for approximately 70 produce line items including apples, due March 4, 2026, with estimated annual spending of $5.5 million across both geographic areas). Most awards follow low-bid, responsive-responsible-vendor methodology on line-item or all-or-none bases; Buy American provisions mandating domestic sourcing predominate; and pricing models span firm fixed-price annual contracts, cost-plus-fixed-fee structures, and USDA Terminal Market-indexed arrangements with escalator/de-escalator adjustment mechanisms.