UNSPSC 50304519: Palmer mangoes

The variety of mangoes known as palmer mangoes

UNSPSC 50304519 Palmer mangoes (Commodity) represents a single fresh-produce line item within the broader food-supply category that state and local governments procure for institutional food service. The recent opportunities in the dataset show that the code captures demand from correctional facilities, school districts, senior services, health care facilities, and child care programs sourcing fresh fruits and vegetables for meal preparation and distribution. While the code nominally names a specific produce variety, the actual procurement context is institutional fresh-produce supply: vendors responding to these opportunities typically bid as produce distributors or wholesalers offering multiple fruit and vegetable line items simultaneously, not as specialty suppliers of Palmer mangoes alone. Issuing bodies span state departments of corrections and mental health, county school nutrition programs, municipal senior services divisions, and regional health-care coalitions—a mix dominated by education and corrections procurement offices.

Recent activity clusters in Texas, Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Mississippi, and Florida, with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice issuing multiple solicitations for fresh-fruit-and-vegetable delivery to prison food warehouses (Wynne, Snyder, and Palestine facilities, IFBs with October 2026 response dates), the Illinois Department of Corrections seeking bi-weekly produce delivery to Joliet Treatment Center (small-business set-aside, RFQ due September 2026, $1 million liability minimum required), and Georgia school districts posting sealed bids for fresh produce spanning 40–200+ line items for the 2026–2027 school year. The Bartow County and Bryan County school systems in Georgia, Dougherty County Board of Education, and Hancock County Board of Education each issued RFPs or IFBs for local fresh fruits and vegetables with June 2026 deadlines, all emphasizing Buy American provisions and 97–98% service-level requirements. Madison Metropolitan School District issued separate bids for petite bananas (estimated $78,000 annual value, weekly usage 70–90 cases, five-inch to five-and-a-half-inch length, ripeness stages 3.5–4.5 per Chiquita guidelines, RFB 4162 due July 29, 2026) and fresh fruit and vegetable snacks under the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (RFB 4163, 5,900 servings weekly, Wisconsin-sourced within 400 miles, ready-to-eat form, July 29, 2026 deadline). The City of Bridgeport Board of Education and Head Start of Greater Dallas each posted large grocery-item solicitations covering 1,100+ line items and 32,409 cases respectively. Delivery, insurance, HACCP compliance, prevailing-wage certification, and F.O.B. Destination pricing are standard contract requirements; local-vendor preferences and diverse-owned-business scoring frequently appear in evaluation criteria.