UNSPSC 50301619: Goldbar apricots

The variety of apricots known as goldbar apricots

UNSPSC 50301619 Goldbar apricots is a Commodity code that frames produce supply for institutional nutrition programs — primarily school districts, municipal child-care agencies, and county boards of education sourcing fresh fruit for meal service and federally funded snack initiatives. Recent solicitations show state and local buyers treating fresh produce as a staple input across child nutrition, school lunch, breakfast, and USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) contracts, often bundled with broader grocery procurement or sourced separately under specialized produce-distribution agreements. The code does not appear in high-frequency deployment; instead, issuing bodies tag produce contracts under broader family codes (such as fresh produce, fresh fruit and vegetable, or groceries) and use commodity-level specificity inconsistently. The recent opportunities block contains no apricots solicitations explicitly; instead, it documents heavy activity in fresh-produce-for-schools procurement across multiple states, with apricots potentially falling into line-item scope within those broader produce categories.

Issuing bodies are predominantly Georgia and Texas school districts (Savannah-Chatham, Muscogee, Liberty, Glynn, Bryan, Dougherty, Bulloch, Henry, McAllen ISD, Austin ISD), plus early-childhood and child-care programs (City of Edinburg CACFP, Head Start of Greater Dallas, Hillsborough County FFVP), and a small number of state-level cooperative purchasing vehicles (GEC Buying Cooperative spanning 30 Georgia districts). School nutrition programs dominate by volume and frequency. Geographic concentration runs heavy in Georgia (15+ recent school district solicitations alone as of March–July 2026) and Texas (4+ school districts plus municipal programs), with lighter activity in Florida, Connecticut, Oregon, Mississippi, and California. Produce procurement is active in spring and early summer ahead of July fiscal-year starts for school contracts. Representative recent opportunities include Savannah-Chatham County Public School System's bid for 72 fresh-produce items (IFB Bid 26-34, due April 23, 2026, via Bonfire e-procurement), Muscogee County School District's ITB 26-017 covering approximately 60 produce line items priced against USDA Fruit and Vegetable Market News (due April 27, 2026), and McAllen ISD's RFP 2026-1029 for fresh produce across 31 campuses (due March 6, 2026, extended). Most school contracts run July–June and feature multi-year renewal options (typically three to five one-year terms). Buy American provisions (51% domestic agricultural content for processed items) appear in nearly all school bids; local-sourcing preferences and farm-to-school priorities are present in Georgia and Texas districts and some cooperative vehicles.