UNSPSC 50305201: Banana passion fruit

The variety of passion fruit known as banana passion fruit

UNSPSC 50305201 Banana passion fruit is a Commodity code that sees minimal recent state and local activity aligned with its nominal scope. The recent opportunities tagged to this code span school nutrition programs, child care food service, senior nutrition, and correctional facilities — but nearly all solicitations focus on broad fresh-produce or grocery procurement rather than banana passion fruit specifically. The City of Edinburg's CACFP meal program (RFP 2026-017, due August 4, 2026) names beverages, paper goods, food products, janitorial supplies, and nonfood items across five supply categories serving 400 children daily, with cost weighted at 30 percent and qualifications at 25 percent. Madison Metropolitan School District's bids for petite bananas (RFB 4162, due July 29, 2026, with estimated contract value $78,000) and fresh fruit and vegetable snacks (RFB 4163, due July 29, 2026) target specific produce lines, yet most other school districts—Bulloch County, Liberty County, Glynn County, Dougherty County, Hancock County, and others across Georgia—solicit fresh-produce contracts as omnibus line-item bids without isolating banana passion fruit as a discrete procurement. Issuing bodies include state departments, county boards of education, independent school districts, transit authorities' food service arms, cooperative buying consortia (such as the GEC Buying Cooperative serving 40 Georgia school nutrition directors), and municipal parks and human services departments. Recent activity concentrates in Georgia, Texas, Florida, Connecticut, Utah, and Oregon; a Georgia state-level procurement (PE55645NONST2026000000009) and a Santa Clara County correctional-facility food bid add institutional diversity beyond K-12.

The code's recent solicitations reveal that state and local governments buy fresh produce in bulk under school nutrition programs (National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, CACFP, USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program), with delivery requirements typically Monday–Friday between 6:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. to central warehouses and individual school sites. Buy American provisions, HACCP plans, food-safety traceability, 24/7 recall accessibility, and compliance with USDA nutritional standards appear across nearly all bids. Contract terms commonly run July 1 through June 30 with optional one-to-four-year renewals; pricing is either firm fixed for the term or cost-plus-fixed-fee with escalators tied to USDA Agricultural Marketing Service or Consumer Price Index data. Evaluation criteria emphasize cost (30–50 percent weight), product quality and availability (15–25 percent), delivery reliability and service capability (15–25 percent), and vendor qualifications and references (10–20 percent); some jurisdictions add preferences for local sourcing (produce within 50–400 miles), diverse-owned businesses, or Texas principal place of business. Insurance minimums range from $500,000 to $2 million general liability per occurrence. Most solicitations are RFBs or ITBs (sealed competitive bids) rather than RFPs; response deadlines cluster in late spring and early summer for contracts starting July 1. The code shows significant procurement activity but little specificity around banana passion fruit as a line item — vendors pursuing this code should expect to quote as part of broader fresh-produce rosters and demonstrate capability to serve institutional child nutrition and senior nutrition programs at scale.