UNSPSC 50305041: Shamouti jaffa oranges

The variety of oranges known as shamouti jaffa oranges

UNSPSC 50305041 Shamouti jaffa oranges is a Commodity code that describes a single citrus product line, yet recent state and local procurement activity shows minimal direct solicitation for this specific fruit variety. The code sits beneath a broader produce family that encompasses fresh fruits and vegetables purchased by school districts, municipalities, and social service agencies for institutional food service. When state and local governments procure fresh citrus under institutional meal programs—child and adult care food programs, school nutrition services, senior services, and correctional food service—they typically issue notices for produce broadly (apples, bananas, oranges, citrus varieties) rather than naming individual cultivars like Shamouti jaffa oranges. The recent opportunities block reflects dozens of fresh-produce solicitations from school nutrition programs, child care consortia, and county purchasing offices across the Southeast and Southwest, but none explicitly names Shamouti jaffa oranges or even specify jaffa orange sourcing as a line item within the broader citrus category.

School districts dominate the institutional produce-procurement landscape in the source data: Madison Metropolitan School District, Dougherty County Board of Education, Hancock County Board of Education, Bulloch County School District, Liberty County Board of Education, Henry County Schools, Glynn County Board of Education, and McAllen Independent School District have all posted solicitations for fresh produce in the past four months. State agencies and cooperative purchasing consortia—such as the State of Georgia and the GEC Buying Cooperative (30 Georgia school districts)—also appear multiple times. Child care and senior service agencies issue parallel solicitations: Head Start of Greater Dallas, City of Edinburg (CACFP meal program), City of San Antonio (produce for senior centers), and Hillsborough County Public Schools (USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program). These buyers source citrus generically—requesting oranges, grapefruits, and citrus varieties by count or case without cultivar specification—suggesting that Shamouti jaffa oranges, while a premium cultivar, are not a procurement driver for state and local government. Geographic concentration is strongest in Georgia and Texas, with additional activity in Florida, Connecticut, Mississippi, California, and Oregon. The absence of Shamouti jaffa orange line items in detailed produce specifications across elementary, middle, and high school nutrition programs, cooperative purchasing groups, and child-care meal services indicates that this code does not reflect material state and local procurement intent at present.