UNSPSC 50304418: Lee mandarin oranges

The variety of mandarin oranges and tangerines known as lee mandarin oranges

UNSPSC 50304418 Lee mandarin oranges, a Commodity code, covers fresh citrus fruit supplied to institutional food-service operations — correctional facilities, mental-health centers, schools, senior programs, and child-care facilities. The code's recent activity reflects procurement of citrus and broader fresh-produce categories by state departments, county boards of education, municipal agencies, and special-purpose districts serving inmate, patient, student, and senior populations; mandarin oranges and citrus fruit appear across multiple institutional supply contracts but are rarely the sole item procured. Issuing bodies span the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (multiple food-warehouse supply contracts), state departments of corrections and mental health, school nutrition programs in Georgia, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and Connecticut, and municipal senior-services and child-care divisions. School districts and state institutional agencies dominate the recent opportunity set, with school-nutrition procurement representing the largest volume of recent solicitations.

Geographic activity concentrates in the Southeast and Texas, driven by school-district fresh-produce bids in Georgia (Hancock County, Dougherty County, Bartow County, Bryan County, DeSoto County, Early County), Texas (Edinburg CACFP program, San Antonio senior services, Head Start of Greater Dallas), and Wisconsin (Madison Metropolitan School District petite bananas and fresh-fruit snacks). Recent opportunities include the Texas Department of Criminal Justice soliciting fresh fruit and vegetables for prison food warehouses in Palestine and Snyder (IW267376, IW267420, IW267411, October 2026 response dates), the Illinois Department of Corrections requesting fresh-produce delivery to Joliet Treatment Center on a bi-weekly schedule with small-business set-aside (27426DOCJOLIEB53849, September 2026), Madison Metropolitan School District bidding 70–90 cases weekly of petite bananas at $78,000 estimated annual value through June 2027 (RFB 4162, July 2026), and Hancock County Board of Education procuring over 200 fresh-produce line items for school-year 2026–27 with a June 26, 2026 bid deadline (IFB #SN002-2027). School nutrition programs typically enforce Buy American or domestic-sourcing preferences, require HACCP plans and food-safety compliance, and impose delivery-frequency and temperature-control requirements. The code shows sustained institutional demand but limited recent activity exclusively in citrus or mandarin oranges as a standalone line item.