UNSPSC 50301617: Fresno apricots

The variety of apricots known as fresno apricots

UNSPSC 50301617 Fresno apricots is a Commodity code. State and local governments rarely solicit this code directly; instead, they procure fresh produce generically under broader families and classes, and apricots appear only incidentally within larger fruit-and-vegetable supply contracts. The recent opportunities block returns no solicitations specifically for Fresno apricots or apricots alone. The sixteen recent state and local opportunities span fresh produce procurement for correctional facilities, mental health centers, school districts, senior services, food service operations, and child nutrition programs, but none name apricots as a line item or targeted commodity. Where fresh fruit appears—such as in the Madison Metropolitan School District's petite banana bid (RFB 4162, $78,000 annual value) or the Hancock County Schools fresh produce bid (IFB SN002-2027, 200+ line items including apples, berries, citrus, and melons)—the solicitation treats fruit as one component within comprehensive produce portfolios, not as a discrete, named variety. Illinois Department of Corrections procurement (27444DHSMENTHB53608) and Texas Department of Criminal Justice food warehouse contracts (IW267376, IW267420, IW267411) all request "fresh fruit and vegetables" without itemizing apricots.

The purchasing pattern across these opportunities suggests that state and local procurement offices use commodity-level codes primarily for statistical classification and budget tracking, not for targeted sourcing. Produce vendors competing for these contracts bid against detailed line-item specifications that name dozens of items—specific apple varieties, banana ripeness stages, carrot counts per case—but the current opportunities do not surface Fresno apricots as a procurement target. Issuing bodies include state departments of corrections and mental health (Texas, Illinois), county school districts and boards of education (Hancock County, Dougherty County, Bryan County, Early County, Bartow County, Madison Metropolitan, DeSoto County in Georgia, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Texas), municipalities (City of Bridgeport, City of Edinburg, City of San Antonio), and Head Start organizations. Geographic activity concentrates in Georgia (12 school district opportunities), Texas (3 TDCJ plus Head Start and City of Edinburg), and scattered Illinois, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Mississippi activity. The code shows no current market—pursue only if you hold a supply relationship with a major institutional food distributor or wholesale buyer that aggregates produce purchasing across multiple state and local customers.