UNSPSC 50303663: Viognier grapes

The variety of wine grapes known as viognier grapes

UNSPSC 50303663 Viognier grapes—a Commodity code—does not align with the recent state and local procurement activity tagged to it. The recent opportunities reflect food service procurement across school districts, cities, counties, and special-purpose entities, but none involve viognier grapes or varietal wine grapes of any kind. The City of Edinburg's CACFP meal program RFP, Madison Metropolitan School District's petite banana and fresh fruit snack bids, the Bridgeport Board of Education's grocery items solicitation, Head Start of Greater Dallas's food products IFB, and DeSoto County School District's fresh produce procurement all specify commodity foods for child and senior nutrition programs—proteins, dairy, produce, beverages, and pantry staples. The code's nominal scope (specialty wine grapes) bears no relationship to the institutional food service, school nutrition, and congregate meal contracting that dominates the opportunities block.

State and local government buys fresh produce, proteins, and processed foods for National School Lunch Programs, School Breakfast Programs, Child and Adult Care Food Programs, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Programs, and senior nutrition services across Georgia, Texas, Connecticut, Florida, Mississippi, Wisconsin, and California, among other states. Issuing bodies include school districts (Madison Metropolitan, Hillsborough County Public Schools, Savannah-Chatham, Bulloch County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, Henry County, Glynn County, McAllen Independent, Austin Independent, Central Point, Meriden Public Schools, DeSoto County, Hancock County, Early County, Bryan County, and Dougherty County), city and county purchasing offices (Bridgeport, San Antonio, Santa Clara, Edinburg), and cooperative purchasing consortia (GEC Buying Cooperative covering 30 Georgia school districts). The code shows no activity that would support a wine-grape supplier. Given the complete mismatch between the nominal commodity and the actual solicitations, pursuit under this code is not viable.