UNSPSC 50303631: Montepulciano grapes

The variety of wine grapes known as montepulciano grapes

UNSPSC 50303631 Montepulciano grapes, a Commodity code, sees limited direct activity in state and local procurement. Instead, the code's broader category encompasses fresh produce supply contracts that state and local governments solicit for institutional food service—school meal programs, correctional facilities, mental health centers, senior services, and child-care food programs. Issuing bodies include state departments (Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Illinois Department of Corrections, Illinois Department of Mental Health), county school districts and boards of education across Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, and Texas, municipal agencies (City of San Antonio, City of Bridgeport, City of Edinburg), transit or special-purpose entities (Marion Health Care Coalition), and Head Start organizations. The work solicited is the supply and delivery of fresh fruits and vegetables meeting USDA quality standards, food-safety compliance, and often state nutrition program regulations such as the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and National School Lunch Program. Contracts typically specify delivery frequency (weekly, bi-weekly, or daily), temperature control, minimum fill rates (often 95–98 percent), traceability documentation, and liability insurance requirements. Scope ranges from narrowly specified single items—petite bananas for Madison Metropolitan School District (RFB 4162, July 2026, 70–90 cases weekly, $78,000 annual estimate)—to comprehensive multi-item procurements spanning 200+ line items of apples, berries, root vegetables, leafy greens, and specialty produce for school nutrition programs across multiple sites.

Geographic concentration spans Texas, Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Mississippi, and Connecticut, with recent activity highest in Georgia school districts (Bartow County, Dougherty County, Hancock County, Bryan County, Early County, DeSoto County) and Texas state agencies and municipalities. Texas Department of Criminal Justice has posted multiple fresh produce RFQs for food warehouse supply (Snyder, Wynne, Palestine facilities, September–October 2026, response dates October 14–19, 2026). Georgia school boards dominate the recent pipeline with sealed bid procurements for fresh produce across multiple sites, due dates clustering June–July 2026. Representative recent opportunities include Head Start of Greater Dallas (IFB 26-GP, June 2026, $969,460.94 estimated value, 32,409 cases of frozen and fresh produce for CACFP compliance, primary/secondary/tertiary supplier model), Madison Metropolitan School District (RFB 4163, July 2026, 5,900 weekly servings of ready-to-eat fresh fruit and vegetable snacks sourced within 400 miles of Madison with Wisconsin diversity-owned business preference and organic produce pricing discount), Collier County Parks and Recreation (ITN North Collier Regional Park Food Services, March 6, 2025 response, three-year term with two one-year renewals, $15.00 per square foot minimum facility rate), and Bartow County School System (RFP 10-2026-019, June 2026, local sourcing within 400 miles with weighted scoring on seasonal variety and product availability). Buy American provisions (minimum 51 percent domestic content for processed items) appear frequently; local-vendor preferences with bid-price thresholds are common in Texas and Georgia school procurements. Prevailing wage compliance is required in Illinois; set-asides for small business and minority-owned vendors appear in multiple school district and state-agency solicitations but are not uniformly applied.