UNSPSC 50304413: Honey oranges

The variety of mandarin oranges and tangerines known as honey oranges

UNSPSC 50304413 Honey oranges is a Commodity code that frames a narrow product line — citrus fruit, specifically honey orange varieties — but the recent state and local opportunities show procurement activity focused on broad fresh-produce supply contracts rather than single-commodity buys. School districts, corrections facilities, mental health centers, senior services programs, and food-service operators are soliciting fresh fruit and vegetable supply agreements that include oranges alongside dozens of other produce items. Issuing bodies span state departments (Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Illinois Department of Corrections and Department of Mental Health), county school systems across Georgia, Mississippi, and Wisconsin, cities and municipalities (San Antonio, Bridgeport, Edinburg), and specialized procurement entities (Head Start of Greater Dallas, Marion Health Care Coalition). Texas generates multiple concurrent solicitations — TDCJ issued separate fresh-fruit-and-vegetable RFPs for facilities in Palestine, Snyder, and Huntsville with October 2026 response dates — suggesting steady demand for produce supply as a core operational input across corrections and institutional food service.

The work being solicited under this code encompasses bi-weekly or weekly fresh-produce delivery to institutional kitchens, with contracts typically running 12 months with renewal options. Recent examples include the Illinois Department of Mental Health's Madden Mental Health Center (small purchase procurement for weekly deliveries of approximately 39 produce line items through June 30, 2027); Madison Metropolitan School District's petite banana RFB 4162 (70–90 cases weekly, $78,000 annual value, September 2026–June 2027); the City of Bridgeport's grocery procurement for school nutrition (over 1,100 line items including fresh fruits and vegetables for the National School Lunch Program, contract term July 1, 2026–June 30, 2027); and Hancock County Board of Education's fresh-produce RFP for school nutrition (over 200 line items spanning apples, berries, cruciferous vegetables, citrus, leafy greens, and specialty items, July 2026–June 2027). Geographic activity concentrates in the Southeast (Georgia school systems, Mississippi, Florida), Texas (TDCJ and municipal procurements), Illinois (state corrections and mental health), and the Midwest (Wisconsin school districts), with school nutrition programs and state institutional food service as the dominant customer base. Buy American provisions, prevailing-wage compliance, HACCP plan submission, and liability insurance ($500,000 to $2 million minimum coverage) are standard compliance requirements across solicitations, with payment terms typically NET 30 to NET 45 upon invoice and inspection. Local-vendor preferences and diversity set-asides (woman-owned, minority-owned, small business) appear in multiple jurisdictions, including a 5% preference for Wisconsin-sourced produce in Madison schools and local-vendor evaluation points in Texas and Florida procurements.