UNSPSC 50304502: Ataulfo mangoes

The variety of mangoes known as ataulfo mangoes

UNSPSC 50304502 Ataulfo mangoes—a Commodity code—does not appear in recent state and local procurement activity. The source contains twenty-five recent opportunities spanning school districts, municipalities, and regional cooperatives across Florida, Georgia, Texas, Connecticut, California, and Oregon, yet none names ataulfo mangoes or sourcing by varietal type. Most solicitations specify fresh produce broadly (apples, bananas, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, oranges, potatoes, strawberries, tomatoes) or list mango as a generic line item within specialty fruit categories; the two solicitations that mention mangoes by name—Hancock County Board of Education (Georgia) and Bulloch County School District (Georgia)—refer to "mangoes" without varietal designation. The code's nominal scope (a single tropical fruit variety) sits at odds with the institutional fruit procurement pattern, which aggregates dozens of produce items into consolidated supply contracts. School nutrition programs, child care food initiatives, and senior center services dominate the recent competitive landscape, and vendors compete on cost, delivery reliability, and compliance with Buy American provisions and USDA food safety standards rather than on access to specific cultivars.

Pursuit under this code is not supported by recent market signals. Broad produce supply contracts—the primary state and local vehicle for fruit procurement—typically award on cost and service across standard commodity produce, not on varietal sourcing. A specialized ataulfo-mango supplier would face structural misalignment with standard school district and municipal food-service procurement, where produce awards are made line-item or whole-contract to generalist distributors. If ataulfo mangoes appear in any active opportunity, they are subsumed in "fresh produce" or "specialty fruits" line items within larger multi-category RFPs or IFBs; no standalone solicitation signals demand for this specific cultivar at the state or local level in the timeframe covered by the source.