UNSPSC 50302504: Bing cherries

The variety of cherries known as bing cherries

UNSPSC 50302504 Bing cherries, a Commodity code, captures state and local procurement of fresh fruit for institutional meal programs, primarily school nutrition services and child care food programs. Recent solicitations show school districts, county education boards, and child nutrition agencies buying fresh produce—including cherries and other seasonal fruits—as components of broader fresh-produce supply contracts serving breakfast, lunch, and snack programs under federal Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), National School Lunch Program (NSLP), and School Breakfast Program (SBP) frameworks. Produce appears frequently bundled with related food items in line-item bid specifications rather than as isolated cherry procurements; bing cherries, when named, represent one item among dozens in comprehensive fruit-and-vegetable contracts. Issuing bodies span school districts (ranging from independent districts serving 5,000+ students to rural systems with fewer than 5,000 students), county boards of education, child nutrition cooperatives (such as GEC Buying Cooperative serving 30+ Georgia districts), and municipal or county departments of human services managing senior nutrition and CACFP meal programs.

Recent activity concentrates heavily in Georgia and Texas, with secondary clusters in Florida, Connecticut, Oregon, and California. Representative solicitations include the GEC Buying Cooperative RFP SN 26-004 (Douglas County School System, Georgia, RFP posted February 4, 2026, due March 4, 2026) procuring fresh produce and eggs across 30 districts with estimated annual spending near $5.5 million across two geographic areas; Bryan County Schools sealed-bid procurement (Georgia, posted April 27, 2026, due May 27, 2026) for fresh produce including specified case quantities of apples, bananas, berries, and other items; and McAllen Independent School District RFP 2026-1029 (Texas, posted March 6, 2026, extended by addendum) seeking fresh produce for 20,000 students across 31 campuses with domestic sourcing preference and geographic preference for produce grown within 50 miles. The City of Edinburg (Texas) CACFP meal program (RFP 2026-017, posted July 16, 2026, due August 4, 2026) and Head Start of Greater Dallas (IFB 26-GP, posted June 24, 2026, due June 24, 2026) represent child-care-focused opportunities. Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin) posted separate requests for petite bananas (RFB 4162, posted July 8, 2026, due July 29, 2026, estimated annual value $78,000) and fresh fruit and vegetable snacks (RFB 4163, posted July 8, 2026, due July 29, 2026), with Wisconsin-sourced produce within 400 miles required for the latter. Buy American provisions (requiring minimum 51% domestic agricultural content for processed items or maximum domestic-commodity sourcing) appear in nearly all school nutrition contracts; local-vendor preferences apply in Texas jurisdictions under state statute; and cooperative-purchasing mechanisms, particularly Georgia buying cooperatives, aggregate demand across multiple districts to achieve volume pricing while allowing line-item awards to multiple vendors based on lowest responsive pricing.