UNSPSC 50304633: Moon and stars watermelon

The variety of melons known as moon and stars watermelon

UNSPSC 50304633 Moon and stars watermelon is a Commodity code. State and local governments do not solicit this specific variety through the public procurement channels tracked in recent opportunities. The code's nominal scope — a single cultivar of specialty watermelon — does not align with the actual buying patterns in the dataset, which spans institutional food service procurement across state correctional facilities, school districts, county parks, senior centers, and state mental health centers. Recent solicitations under codes proximate to fresh produce consistently name mixed fresh fruit and vegetable supply, not individual fruit varieties. The absence of Moon and stars watermelon solicitations in Texas Department of Criminal Justice fresh produce awards, Illinois Department of Corrections and Mental Health fresh-produce contracts, school district meal-program bids, or county food-service requests suggests either that the code mislabels opportunities otherwise categorized as general fresh-produce supply, or that this specialty variety does not enter state and local institutional procurement at scale.

State and local procurement activity in the fresh-produce commodity space concentrates on high-volume, multiitem supply contracts. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Illinois Department of Corrections and Department of Mental Health, school nutrition programs across Georgia, Texas, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Mississippi, and county social-services departments issue frequent RFQs, RFBs, and ITNs for fresh fruits and vegetables in bulk—typically 40–200+ line items spanning apples, bananas, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, onions, oranges, potatoes, strawberries, and tomatoes for delivery to institutional warehouses and individual school or facility sites. Contract values range from $78,000 (Madison Metropolitan School District petite banana annual estimate, July 2026) to $969,460.94 (Head Start of Greater Dallas, June 2026). Buyers emphasize Buy American compliance, HACCP plans, cold-chain management, scheduled weekly or bi-weekly delivery, and pest-free, blemish-free product. Specialty cultivars do not appear as standalone line items in the solicitation records. If your firm supplies Moon and stars watermelon to institutional buyers, monitor general fresh-produce and specialty-fruit solicitations rather than this discrete code, as procurement offices typically consolidate seasonal and specialty items into broader RFBs on fresh fruit and vegetable supply.