UNSPSC 50302511: Chapman cherries

The variety of cherries known as chapman cherries

UNSPSC 50302511 Chapman cherries is a Commodity code that represents a single agricultural product line—fresh fruit—but the recent state and local procurement activity under this code shows minimal direct solicitation for Chapman cherries specifically. Instead, issuing bodies are procuring fresh fruits and produce broadly through school nutrition programs, child care food programs, senior services, and correctional facilities, often grouping cherries with dozens of other produce items in mixed fruit categories rather than requesting them as a standalone line item. The code does not reflect a disaggregated market for individual cherry varieties; when cherries appear in recent solicitations, they are embedded within comprehensive fresh produce procurements that include apples, bananas, berries, citrus, melons, and stone fruits at parity, suggesting that Chapman cherries compete as one option within broader produce sourcing rather than driving procurement decisions in isolation.

State and local issuing bodies spanning school districts, city agencies, county boards of education, Head Start programs, and special-purpose districts across Texas, Florida, Connecticut, Georgia, Oregon, and California are the primary buyers of fresh produce including cherries. Dominant repeat buyers are school districts—Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin), Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida), multiple Georgia county boards of education, Austin Independent School District (Texas), and others—which procure fresh fruit and vegetable snacks, school nutrition program items, and Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program supplies through RFPs, RFBs, and IFBs with response dates typically between February and August. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Edinburg, Texas RFP 2026-017 for CACFP meal program food and nonfood items due August 4, 2026, covering beverages, paper goods, and food products including fresh fruits and vegetables for approximately 400 children; Head Start of Greater Dallas, Inc. IFB 26-GP for 32,409 cases of frozen foods, produce, and meat products meeting CACFP requirements, due June 24, 2026; and the GEC Buying Cooperative RFP SN 26-004 for fresh produce and eggs across 30 Georgia school districts with estimated annual spending of $5.5 million, due March 4, 2026. None of these solicitations explicitly isolate Chapman cherries as a specification; instead, they reference apples, berries, stone fruits, and seasonal fruits in generic terms, and Chapman cherries would qualify only if they meet general produce quality standards and pricing competitiveness within a line-item bidding structure that treats cherry variety as secondary to availability and cost.