UNSPSC 50302509: Garnet cherries

The variety of cherries known as garnet cherries

UNSPSC 50302509 Garnet cherries, a Commodity code, represents a narrow product line with minimal recent state and local procurement activity. The recent solicitations tagged with this code show little alignment with garnet cherry procurement—instead, the opportunities span broad fresh produce, grocery items, and food service supplies across school districts, municipalities, and child nutrition programs. Only the City of Edinburg RFP (RFP 2026-017) and Head Start of Greater Dallas bid (IFB No. 26-GP) explicitly mention fruit as one component within multi-category food procurements, and neither names garnet cherries specifically. The code appears to see no dedicated, product-focused solicitations in the period reviewed.

State and local food service buyers—primarily school districts, child nutrition programs, and correctional facilities—are actively procuring fresh produce, but their demand is consolidated into large, category-wide bids covering dozens of fruit and vegetable line items at once rather than single-product awards. Issuing bodies include Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin), Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida), multiple Georgia school districts (Savannah-Chatham, Dougherty, Henry, Glynn, Bryan, Bulloch, Liberty, Muscogee, Hancock, Early, McAllen ISD, Austin ISD), Austin Independent School District (Texas), the GEC Buying Cooperative (30 Georgia districts), Meriden Public Schools (Connecticut), Central Point School District (Oregon), Head Start of Greater Dallas, the City of Edinburg, and the County of Santa Clara (California). The preponderance of activity centers on school nutrition programs, which procure fresh fruit as part of National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP), and Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) compliance. These buyers issue RFPs, RFQs, IFBs, and ITBs typically with response windows of two to six weeks and contract terms running July through June aligned with the school year. Recent activity clusters in Georgia, Texas, Florida, Connecticut, Oregon, and California. Vendors pursuing work under this code should recognize that garnet cherries, if procured at all by state and local food service buyers, compete within consolidated produce bids weighted heavily on cost (30–50 points), product quality (10–25 points), delivery reliability, and compliance with Buy American provisions and nutritional standards; winning margins typically hinge on unit pricing and fill-rate capability rather than single-product specialization.