UNSPSC 50303001: Pink dragonfruit

The variety of dragonfruit known as pink dragonfruit

UNSPSC 50303001 Pink dragonfruit is a Commodity code that represents fresh fruit items procured for institutional food service, school nutrition programs, and child care meal services. State and local governments purchasing under this code buy fresh produce—particularly specialty and conventional fruits—as components of broader school lunch, breakfast, and child care food program contracts. The issuing bodies are predominantly school districts and school nutrition programs, along with specialized child care and senior services departments. Recent solicitations show school districts across Georgia, Texas, Florida, Connecticut, Oregon, and California procuring fresh produce in high volume for meal service delivery, with purchases ranging from narrow single-item specialty fruits (such as petite bananas at Madison Metropolitan School District) to comprehensive multi-item fresh fruit and vegetable inventories spanning dozens of produce varieties. Food service departments at county boards of education and city school systems consistently use competitive sealed bid (ITB or IFB) and request-for-proposal (RFP) methods to award produce supply contracts on annual or multi-year terms, often with renewal options extending three to five years total.

The geographic spread centers on the Southeast—particularly Georgia, where county school districts (Bryan County, Glynn County, Dougherty County, Liberty County, Savannah-Chatham County, Bulloch County, and others) and buying cooperatives (GEC Buying Cooperative serving 30 districts) have posted multiple produce solicitations in recent months. Texas school districts (McAllen Independent School District, Austin Independent School District, Edinburg) and Florida school systems (Hillsborough County Public Schools) represent sustained activity in the South and Southwest. Wisconsin (Madison Metropolitan School District), Connecticut (Meriden Public Schools, City of Bridgeport), Oregon (Central Point School District), and California (Santa Clara County) show scattered but active procurement. Representative recent opportunities include Madison Metropolitan School District's bid for petite bananas (RFB 4162, due July 29, 2026, with annual contract value estimated at $78,000) and fresh fruit and vegetable snacks (RFB 4163, due July 29, 2026, with weekly service to elementary students); Hancock County Board of Education's sealed bid for fresh produce spanning over 200 line items across apple varieties, berries, root vegetables, and specialty items (IFB #SN002-2027, due June 26, 2026); DeSoto County School District's sealed bid for fresh produce distribution to 41 school sites under a cost-plus-fee model (bids due June 22, 2026); and the GEC Buying Cooperative's RFP for fresh produce and eggs serving 30 Georgia school districts across two geographic areas with estimated annual spending of approximately $5.5 million (proposals due March 4, 2026). Evaluation criteria across these procurements emphasize cost (typically 30–50 percent weighting), product quality and freshness, delivery reliability and frequency (often weekly), compliance with USDA food safety standards including HACCP plans, Buy American requirements, and vendor experience. Most contracts run July 1 through June 30 in alignment with the school fiscal year, with firm pricing for the initial 60–90 days followed by potential adjustments tied to USDA Agricultural Marketing Service or Consumer Price Index data.