UNSPSC 50302709: Searless cranberries

The variety of cranberries known as searless cranberries

UNSPSC 50302709 Searless cranberries (Commodity) encompasses fresh produce supply and delivery for institutional food service operations across state agencies, county governments, school districts, and specialized facilities. Recent solicitations show that state and local buyers are acquiring fresh fruits, vegetables, and related produce line items to support correctional facilities, school meal programs, senior services, child care nutrition programs, and mental health treatment centers. The issuing bodies span state correctional and mental health departments (Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Illinois Department of Corrections, Illinois Department of Mental Health), school districts of varying sizes (Madison Metropolitan, Bridgeport Board of Education, Bryan County, DeSoto County, Dougherty County, Hancock County, Early County, Bartow County), cities and counties (Collier County, City of Bridgeport, City of San Antonio, City of Edinburg), Head Start organizations, and other specialized nutrition programs. The work involves sourcing, processing where required, and delivering fresh produce according to USDA standards, CACFP regulations, and Buy American provisions; meeting food-safety certification, HACCP compliance, and traceability documentation; and maintaining cold-chain logistics with temperature control and scheduled weekly or bi-weekly delivery to multiple sites.

Activity concentrates in the Southeast and South-Central regions, particularly Georgia, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Connecticut, and other states with active school nutrition and institutional food-service procurement. Representative recent opportunities include the Texas Department of Criminal Justice solicitations for fresh fruit and vegetable supply to the Palestine, Snyder, and Wynne food warehouses (RFP and IFB, October 2026); Madison Metropolitan School District's bids for petite bananas ($78,000 estimated annual value, July 2026) and fresh fruit and vegetable snacks for the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (July 2026); Collier County's Invitation to Negotiate for food services at North Collier Regional Park with a 10-point local-vendor preference (response date March 2025); Illinois Department of Corrections bid for fresh produce delivery to Joliet Treatment Center under a small-business set-aside (September 2026); Illinois Department of Mental Health's small-purchase procurement for fresh fruits and vegetables at Madden Mental Health Center (August 2026); City of Edinburg's RFP for CACFP meal program food and nonfood items serving approximately 400 children ($0.05 to $0.20 daily meal rates implied by existing school contracts); Bridgeport Board of Education's bid for over 1,100 grocery line items including fresh and frozen produce with Buy American requirements (June 2026); and Head Start of Greater Dallas' IFB for frozen and fresh produce and meat products with an estimated procurement value of $969,460.94 (June 2026). Geographic breadth spans Georgia school districts (Bryan County, Hancock County, Dougherty County, Bartow County, Early County), Texas entities, Illinois facilities, Florida, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Mississippi, with emerging activity in San Antonio. Local-vendor preferences appear in multiple jurisdictions, ranging from 5% to 10% preference discounts, and small-business set-asides are common in state-agency and school-district procurements. Prevailing-wage requirements apply in Illinois; Buy American provisions are standard across school nutrition programs.