UNSPSC 50301708: Lacatan bananas

The variety of bananas known as lacatan bananas

UNSPSC 50301708 Lacatan bananas (Commodity) shows limited recent alignment with state and local school nutrition procurement activity. While the code nominally describes a single banana variety, the recent opportunities block demonstrates that state and local food service buyers tagging activity under this code are actually procuring broad fresh produce and grocery categories—including bananas as one line item among dozens—rather than sourcing lacatan bananas specifically. Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB 4162 for "Petite Bananas" (due July 29, 2026) specifies 150-count cases of small bananas in defined ripeness stages, with an estimated annual contract value of $78,000 for weekly deliveries of 70–90 cases during school sessions. That solicitation, however, is district-specific and represents a narrow subset of the banana-inclusive procurements in the block. Most other tagged opportunities—such as the City of Edinburg's CACFP Meal Program RFP (due August 4, 2026), Bridgeport Board of Education's grocery items IFB (closed June 30, 2026), Head Start of Greater Dallas' IFB for grocery products (due June 24, 2026), and numerous Georgia school district fresh-produce and food-supply solicitations—name bananas as one commodity among many, not as the primary procurement focus.

Issuing bodies are predominantly school districts and school nutrition programs, with occasional participation by child care providers and special-purpose districts. School nutrition directors dominate the buyer base; state-level food procurements are rare. The geographic spread is heavily concentrated in Georgia, Texas, and Florida, with secondary activity in Connecticut, Oregon, Mississippi, California, and other states. Recent solicitations show school nutrition programs across multiple states and county systems (Savannah-Chatham County, Muscogee County, Liberty County, Glynn County, Hancock County, Dougherty County, Bryan County, and Bulloch County in Georgia; McAllen and Austin ISDs in Texas; DeSoto County in Mississippi; Hillsborough County in Florida; Madison Metropolitan in Wisconsin; Meriden and Bridgeport in Connecticut; Central Point and other Oregon districts; Santa Clara County, California for a correctional facility). The code itself appears to be a mistagging artifact: solicitation summaries explicitly request "fresh produce," "grocery items," or "school nutrition food products," and bananas appear only as line items within larger procurement baskets. The lacatan variety is rarely named or specified; when banana type is detailed—as in Madison's petite banana RFB—the code remains applied generically. For business development purposes, this code shows minimal decision relevance as a standalone pursuit signal; banana-inclusive opportunities are better tracked through broader fresh-produce and school-nutrition-food codes that capture the actual scope of work.