UNSPSC 50304701: Black mulberries

The variety of mulberries known as black mulberries

UNSPSC 50304701 Black mulberries is a Commodity code that encompasses the procurement of fresh produce — specifically berries, stone fruits, and other perishable fresh fruits and vegetables — by state and local institutional buyers serving correctional facilities, mental health centers, schools, senior services, and child care programs. Recent solicitations show state correctional and mental health departments, school districts, and county governments purchasing fresh produce in bulk for food service operations, with delivery specifications, quality standards, HACCP compliance, and sustainability or local-sourcing preferences commonly embedded in contracts. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has posted multiple solicitations for fresh fruit and vegetable supply to food warehouses serving prison populations; state mental health facilities in Illinois are seeking weekly produce deliveries; and school districts across Georgia, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Mississippi, and Texas are bidding fresh fruit and vegetable supply for child nutrition programs. Issuing bodies span state correctional and mental health agencies, county and municipal school districts, county commissioners' offices managing parks and recreation facilities, Head Start organizations, and health care coalitions. Many solicitations include Buy American content requirements (typically 51 percent domestic agricultural commodity sourcing), HACCP plan submission, comprehensive liability and workers' compensation insurance, E-Verify authorization, and debarment certifications.

Geographic activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, Wisconsin, Illinois, Connecticut, Mississippi, and Florida, with the heaviest recent solicitation volume in Georgia school nutrition procurement. Representative recent opportunities include the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's fresh fruit and vegetable solicitations for its Snyder and Wynne food warehouses (proposals due October 14, 2026), the Illinois Department of Mental Health's fresh fruit and vegetable contract for Madden Mental Health Center (proposals due August 14, 2026, with small business set-aside), the Collier County Board of County Commissioners' Invitation to Negotiate for food services at North Collier Regional Park (proposals due March 6, 2025, with 10-point local-vendor preference), the City of Bridgeport's grocery items procurement for its Board of Education's Food & Nutrition Services (electronic bids due June 30, 2026, subject to Buy American and Title VII CFR compliance), Madison Metropolitan School District's petite banana bid RFB 4162 (bids due July 29, 2026, with estimated annual contract value of $78,000) and fresh fruit and vegetable snacks bid RFB 4163 (bids due July 29, 2026, sourcing within 400 miles of Madison and Wisconsin with 5 percent diverse-owned business preference), and DeSoto County School District's fresh produce distribution for 41 school sites (bids due June 22, 2026, on a bi-annual fixed-fee-plus-reimbursable-cost basis with 97 percent service-level requirement and weekly deliveries to all sites).